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Jason Michael Carroll
Jason Michael Carroll (born June 13, 1978 in Houston, Texas) is an American country music singer. Carroll grew up in a religious household in Franklinton, North Carolina in a strict fundamentalist environment where his father viewed all kinds of popular music as the siren call of sin and would not allow any secular music played in the home or even on family trips in the car.

Jason Michael Carroll doesnt look like he sounds and that intrigue only heightens both realities of the tangy vocalist from North Carolina. After all, to hear him is to hear a straight-up, full-tilt, no-frills country singer who works a groove like a mule team, a melody like a barrel racer going for time, and a tear jerker with the dignity of Sunday grace.

In 2004, encouraged by his mother, Carroll won a local singing competition, WRAZ FOX 50's Gimme the Mic. During this same period, Carroll had finished writing Alyssa Lies. He was discovered by Rusty Harmon, the manager who produced Hootie & the Blowfish a decade ago. By the summer of 2005, Carroll was a regular along Nashville's Music Row. He later signed with the booking agency Monterey Peninsula Artists Nashville and entered a recording agreement with Arista Records.

Carroll's debut album Waitin' in the Country was released on February 6, 2007. In its opening week, it debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums Charts. With first-week sales of 57,608, and a Billboard 200 pop chart entry at #8, Carroll had once achieved both the best unit sales and the highest pop chart debut by a new country male artist since Billy Ray Cyrus in 1992. However, thanks to his exposure on American Idol, newcomer Bucky Covington's debut album later surpassed Carroll's sales.On Saturday February 24, 2007 Carroll made his second appearance on the Grand Ole Opry performing Alyssa Lies and Livin' Our Love Song.

Carroll was not only afraid of the contradictions, he leans into them with a freewheeling abandon. To listen to the thumpnbump of Waitin in the Country, with its great big, descending bass-line and big-flanged electric guitars; the chuggingly insistent I Can Sleep When Im Dead, with its turbo-diesel chording; or the romping, universal whirl of Anywhere USA, with its sawing fiddles and wailing steel guitar, is to understand this is a young man who likes to have economy-sized fun. Yet just as quickly, he can sink his teeth into the fight-for-the-one-youre-meant-to-be-with intensity of Love Wont Let Me, the celebration of life and enduring love in Livin Our Love Song, or the resolved acceptance of life on its terms with Let It Rain, which speaks to a seriousness that exists below the obvious inside the emerging singer/songwriter.

As Carroll has visited radio and made appearances in city after city, people have shared their real-life stories and their thanks for the voice he gave them and others, even to the point of approaching him. The power of the lyric, and Carrolls performance, touched a nerve with listeners across the country. Alyssa Lies became the fastest-rising debut single by a male country artist in 2006 it was already a Top 10 country airplay single weeks before his albums February 6, 2007 release. The song also set a record in its first week of availability, earning the highest country new artist debut in the history of Sound Scans Digital Songs chart. And while that all sounds rather commercial in light of the subject matter, its a reflection of the impact and resonance of a genuinely heartfelt song.