Coy Bowles
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Coy Lamar Bowles is an American musician best known as a member of Zac Brown Band, which won three Emmy awards. He plays guitar, slide guitar, dobro, piano and organ. He joined the Zac Brown Band in 2007, where he also has contributed as a songwriter.
He has writing credits on the albums You Get What You Give, Uncaged and Jekyll + Hyde, including three No. 1 hit songs – "Knee Deep", "Colder Weather" and "Sweet Annie".
Bowles was born and grew up in Thomaston, Georgia, in the central Piedmont area. He started playing guitar at age 11. 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 attended public school.
Bowles went to college for biology at West Georgia College, where he met Zac Brown. Just before graduation, he decided that instead of biology, he wanted to pursue a career in music. 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. Throughout his time in this program, he also played in the Atlanta area with various jazz and blues acts.
Upon graduating, he started his own band, Coy Bowles and The Fellowship. He opened for the Zac Brown Band at the Sky Bar in Auburn, Alabama. A week or two later, Bowles was asked to join the band.[1]
