Coy Bowles

By the time he was 13, he had a band called Betty Doom that played punk rock and rock-n-roll music at local churches and birthday parties.

He took a year off and practiced eight hours a day in order to get into Georgia State University's School of Music, where he was admitted to the Jazz Studies Program.

[4] Coy Bowles and The Fellowship is a band that fuses the roots of blues with jazz and elements of gospel, country and rock.

In 2006, Coy Bowles and the Fellowship released their first album Into the Distance, the year before he joined Zac Brown Band.

Coy Bowles and the Fellowship continue to play in the Atlanta area when he is not on the road with Zac Brown Band.