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 A second version was then released in 2006 by The Lost Trailers, whose version was released as a single but withdrawn from radio.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.
Trick Pony (album) Trick Pony is the debut studio album from the American country music group Trick Pony, released in 2001 on Warner Bros. Records Nashville. The album produced three singles in "Pour Me", "On a Night Like This", and "Just What I Do", which respectively reached #12, #4, and #13 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. "Just What I Do" was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for "Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals". Also included is a cover of Johnny Cash's "Big River", here covered with Cash and Waylon Jennings.