Lebanon, TN (Top40 Charts/ Cracker Barrel Official Website) Jason Michael Carroll got his start singing in public while he worked as a server at the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store location in Henderson, N.C. So it's downright fitting that the company has chosen Numbers, his first studio album since 2009, to be the newest addition to its exclusive music program when the CD is released this summer. Cracker Barrel and Carroll are partnering with the Quarterback Records radio team, GrassRoots, and country radio nationwide to debut the album's title song "Numbers" as a single today.
"'Numbers' is a song that got my attention the first time I heard it," said Carroll. "It was written by Patrick Davis and Rodney Clausen and it's about the way certain numbers, like dates and times, can represent some of life's most significant moments. Moments like your first date, meeting the love of your life and the day your child is born. Those dates and times have real meaning in our lives. I think everyone can identify with that concept."
"The date that Jason Michael Carroll started working for Cracker Barrel is one of those significant numbers," said Chris Ciavarra, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Cracker Barrel. "We had no idea when he became one of our new-hire Rising Stars that his music career was about to make him a star in the music industry, too. Adding his album to our music program is like welcoming family back home."
The single "Numbers" will be available on iTunes April 5. The CD Numbers will be available exclusively at all Cracker Barrel locations July 25, with 12 songs on it, including "Numbers" and "Alyssa Lies" from Jason Michael Carroll's 2007 album Waitin' in the Country. "Alyssa Lies" topped at No 5 on the Billboard Country Chart and was Carroll's debut single and the runaway hit that put him on the map.
Jason Michael Carroll's Numbers will be the latest in Cracker Barrel's exclusive music program, which features numerous projects. In March of this year, Cracker Barrel released Kenny Rogers' The Love of God which debuted at No 8 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, No 2 on the Top Christian Albums chart and at No 31 on the overall Billboard 200. In January 2011, Cracker Barrel released The Grascals & Friends - Country Classics With A Bluegrass Spin which debuted at No 1 on Billboard magazine's Bluegrass Albums chart and at No 26 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart. In November of 2010, Cracker Barrel released Smokey Robinson's Now & Then which debuted at No 19 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. September saw the release of the self-titled Rodney Atkins, which includes four No 1 hits, and also the release of Mandy Barnett's Winter Wonderland, which offers up all the authentic sounds of holiday traditions. In July, the company released Craig Morgan's That's Why-Collector's Edition, and in May the release of Wynonna's Love Heals debuted at No 7 on the Billboard Magazine Top Country Albums chart. February's release of Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers debuted at No 1 on Billboard's Top Bluegrass Albums chart, where it spent nine weeks in the top position and 18 weeks overall in one of the three top positions. One of its songs was nominated for a Grammy award Over the last few years, Cracker Barrel has released exclusive CDs with Alan Jackson, the Zac Brown Band, George Jones, Montgomery Gentry, Dolly Parton, Bill Gaither, Ricky Skaggs, Aaron Tippin, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Josh Turner, Amy Grant, Kenny Rogers, Sara Evans, and Charlie Daniels.
Tracks on Numbers:
Meet me in the Barn
Numbers
Can I get an Amen
Hell or Hallelujah
Last Word
Stray
Don't know Why
Ray of Hope
Let Me
This is for the Lonely
My Favorite
Alyssa Lies (from the album Waitin' in the Country, Arista Records, 2007)
