Chicken Fried and Whatever It Is were top-3 country hits for which American music group?
Chicken Fried "Chicken Fried" is a song by the Zac Brown Band, whose frontman Zac Brown co-wrote it with Wyatt Durrette. The song was first recorded in 2003 for the 2004 album "Home Grown". A second version was then released in 2006 by The Lost Trailers, whose version was released as a single but withdrawn from radio. Two years later, the Zac Brown Band re-recorded the song and released it as the first single from their album "The Foundation". In late 2008, it became their first chart single, as well as their first number-one hit on the "Billboard" country charts. The Zac Brown Band version was also featured in the 2008 movie "Witless Protection", starring Larry the Cable Guy.
Going Up the Country "Going Up the Country" (also Goin' Up the Country) is a song by American blues rock band Canned Heat. Called a "rural hippie anthem", it became one of the band's biggest hits and best-known songs. As with their previous single, "On the Road Again", the song was adapted from a 1920s blues song and sung in a countertenor-style by Alan Wilson.