coy bowles transferred to atlanta's georgia state university to study music. he subsequently became involved in atlanta's various music scenes, and eventually formed coy bowles and the fellowship in 2004. two years later, bowles decided to reconnect with brown. through mutual friends, he learned that the zac brown band was scheduled to perform in atlanta one evening. bowles and brown spent the afternoon prior to the performance reacquainting with each other, which ended with brown inviting bowles to sit in with his band at that night's performance. to return the favor, bowles invited the band to attend his own gig with the fellowship a couple of months later, which in turn resulted in brown and his band sitting in at that gig.