Country giants Zac Brown Band met Adele but didn't know who she was: 'I was like, I missed that chance'
- Country giants Zac Brown Band recalled meeting Adele and not knowing who she was.
- "I was like, 'Oh my god, I missed that chance,'" said lead singer Zac Brown.
Fresh off headlining Europe's biggest country music festival, country giants Zac Brown Band now want to collaborate with the continent's most famous songstress, Adele.
Had they recognized the "Rolling in the Deep" singer when they first met her at a concert in 2010, the duet could have already happened.
"For me, my favorite female vocalist is Adele. That's the dream for me," lead singer and guitarist Zac Brown told Insider backstage at C2C: Country to Country festival at The O2 arena in London Sunday.
"I had an opportunity to meet her just before '21' came out and I didn't know about her."
"21," Adele's sophomore album, won a Grammy for album of the year in 2012 and to date has sold over 22 million copies.
Brown continued: "We'd played our song and she came up to me and she was like, 'I really love your music.' And I was like, 'It's nice to meet you.' I had no idea [who she was] and then the year after that, '21' came out and I was like, 'Oh my god, I missed that chance to talk to her and try to do it.'"
"So for me, it's a bucket list item to get to do something with Adele. I don't know how I'm going to pull that off, but..." Brown added.
Zac Brown Band played the headline set at C2C, treating fans to a medley of their biggest hits, including "Chicken Fried" and "Toes."
The Atlanta country act also performed electric covers of Kings of Leon's "Sex on Fire" and Fleetwood Mac's "Big Love."
Speaking ahead of the show, Brown revealed that the band is currently working on their eighth studio album, which he described as its "masterpiece."
"We've got a concept for an album and bringing in art as well," he said. "We have an incredible artist that we've been working with to help us to pull it off."
Brown added: "So, you know, for us, it's just about making sure the nuts and bolts, the music is there and then come in and really trying to exceed everyone's expectations when they see us live. And that's, that's our strength.
"If you just know our music from what the recordings are, that's the heart of the song, but we're entertainers, and being able to present that in a way where people are just like, 'That was the greatest thing I've seen.' That's what keeps us all hungry."