Chris Fryar
Nov 22, 1970 -
Chris Fryar (born November 22, 1970) is an American drummer who is a member of the Zac Brown Band (since 2008). He has also worked with Oteil and the Peacemakers, led by bassist Oteil Burbridge of the Allman Brothers Band, Charles Neville, Victor Wooten, John Popper, Steve Bailey, David Hood, Robert Moore and the Wildcats, and the blues trio, Gravy.
He has a music degree. In the mid-1990s he had been underemployed in a Birmingham cover band, but then joined the blues-rock band Gravy. In the 2000s, as part of Oteil and the Peacemakers, he was able to make use of both his jazz background and rock music sensibilities. He then became part of the incarnation of the Zac Brown Band.
