Jason Michael Carroll and Bucky Covington to Co-Headline the Raisin’ the Bar Tour
Submitted By Matt Petty
Sep 7, 2007

Nashville, TN – Country music’s two, best-selling new male artists of 2007 team for one exciting concert series with the Raisin’ the Bar tour, starring Bucky Covington and Jason Michael Carroll, with special guest, Cole Deggs & The Lonesome.   Beginning October 25 in Corpus Christi, the Raisin’ the Bar tour will span 19 dates from Texas to New York before wrapping December 8 in Baltimore.

Carroll & Covington have indeed been “raising the bar” for new male artists, both emerging with smash singles, chart-topping albums, and a level of success not achieved by other debut country males in years.

Jason Michael Carroll’s Arista Nashville album, Waitin’ in the Country, exploded onto Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart at #1 in its first week and launched back-to-back hits with the Top 5 “Alyssa Lies” and the current “Livin’ Our Love Song.”   Written by Carroll, “Alyssa Lies” made music history, entering Billboard’s Digital Song chart with the highest first-week sales of any debut country artist since the inception of the chart.   He’s been featured in People, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Reader’s Digest, and more, and he kicks off the Raisin’ the Bar concert series following a string of dates opening for Brooks & Dunn and Alan Jackson.    

Bucky Covington is 2007’s best-selling debut country artist.   His self-titled CD opened at #1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart with not only 2007’s biggest unit debut from a new country artist, but also the best first week sales and highest Top 200 debut for any new male country artist since Billy Ray Cyrus in 1992.   His new single “It’s Good To Be Us” has just delivered to country radio on the heels of the Top 5 success of his first single “A Different World.”  In recent months Covington’s national television appearances have included Live with Regis and Kelly, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Good Morning America and Fox & Friends.

Cole Deggs & The Lonesome are a five-man “band of brothers” whose passion, energy and musicianship, in concert and on disc, are not to be missed.   Their self-titled Columbia Nashville debut, released earlier this year, includes their first hit, “I Got More,” and new single, “Girl Next Door.”

Subject to change, a current list of tour dates is as follows:

October 25                   Concrete Street Amphitheater                Corpus Christi, TX

October 26                   Cowboys Dance Hall                             San Antonio, TX

October 27                   Mo’s Place                                            Katy, TX

October 28                   Cain’s Ballroom                                     Tulsa, OK

November 1                  Trocaderos Night Club                           Minneapolis, MN

November 2                  Val Air Ballroom                                   W Des Moines, IA

November 3                  Waverly Beach                                       Menasha, WI

November 9                  Northern Lights Theatre                         Milwaukee, WI

November 10                The Intersection                                     Grand Rapids, MI

November 16                Longbranch Saloon                                Raleigh, NC

November 17                Wildhorse Saloon                                  Nashville, TN

November 23                Coyote Joe’s                                         Charlotte, NC

November 24                The Blind Horse Saloon                         Greenville, SC

November 30                Beaumont Club                                       Kansas City, MO

December 1                  Billy Bob’s Texas                                   Fort Worth, TX

December 5                  Northern Lights                                     Clifton Park, NY

December 6                  Pepsi-Cola Roadhouse                           Burgettstown, PA

December 7                  Crocodile Rock Café                             Allentown, PA

December 8                  Rams Head Live!                                   Baltimore, MD

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