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. He has also worked with Oteil and the Peacemakers, led by bassist

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of the

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, Charles Neville,

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, David Hood, Robert Moore and the Wildcats, and the blues trio, Gravy. Fryar 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. Singer-guitarist Rob Thorworth said that Fryar raised the group's musical sophistication. 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 also became part of a later incarnation of the

. He divorced his prior wife and remarried on May 22, 2010, to Holly Travis, which gave Chris two step-children: Ashley and Allison. Fryar endorses Grestch drums and Zildjian cymbals and states being extremely happy with his setup, but switches it around periodically. His main setup consists of: 18" fx oriental china trash 14" K/Z hi-hat pair 18" K dark crash thin 20" A custom crash 20" fx oriental Crash of Doom 20" A custom ping ride 20" K Constantinople medium ride (used as both ride and crash)

References

External links

* http://www.chrisfryar.com * http://www.oteilburbridge.com
Official Zac Brown Band Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fryar, Chris American jazz percussionists 1970 births Living people American country drummers Musicians from Birmingham, Alabama Zac Brown Band members 20th-century American drummers American male drummers Jazz musicians from Alabama 21st-century American drummers American male jazz musicians