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Zac Harmon found The Drive in a Dallas club, and before long they were his touring band — "young, talented musicians that help push me musically," as he put it. For the next four years they carried his name across the United States and Europe and onto two records: Floreada's Boy (Catfood Records, 2024), a Living Blues top album of the year, and Live (2026), billed as Zac Harmon & The Drive.

Critics took notice. Reviewing Live, Bill Kopp called the band "super-tight" and wrote that "Harmon and the Drive deftly alternate between swagger and subtlety." The sound comes from where these players learned their craft — Pentecostal and gospel churches, Deep Ellum clubs, southern soul stages, and sessions as far afield as Erykah Badu's Mama's Gun.

In August 2026 The Drive stepped out on its own and won the band division of the Trinity River Blues Society's 8th Annual Blues Challenge, in front of the biggest crowd in the event's history. In January 2027 they represent North Texas at the Blues Foundation's International Blues Challenge on Beale Street in Memphis.