Chris Young photo courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

Chris Young is celebrating a hat-trick today as “Voices” becomes his third consecutive No. 1 single from his sophomore album, The Man I Want To Be. “Voices” takes the No. 1 position on both the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Aircheck charts. 

But wait, there’s more. Chris not only went to the top of the charts — by doing so, he broke a 25-year record previously set by Randy Travis. The record? It’s only the second time in the modern era of the Billboard country chart that an artist released a song to only moderate chart success, then re-released the same song and watched it climb to No. 1. “Voices” becomes the first re-release to reach No. 1 since Randy’s “On The Other Hand” went to the top in 1986 after initially peaking at No. 67. Continue Reading

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Jason Michael Carroll photo by David Bean, courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

To be a female celebrity is to undergo a constant evaluation of the latest hair style. Kellie Pickler’s shift from blonde to red and back to blonde? All over the ‘Net. Carrie Underwood’s new ‘do on the CMAs? Lots of folks registered opinions. Taylor Swift’s newly straightened locks? In some quarters, it gets more hits than stories about health care.

Hair is sort of a thing with male singer Jason Michael Carroll these days. When he came to prominence with a mop that wasn’t all that different from, say, a 1988 version of Motley Crue’s Vince Neil, Jason’s rock-star image — enhanced by the Steven Tyler-bred scarves hanging from his mic stand — cut a unique figure in country circles.

With the release of his Growing Up Is Getting Old album earlier this year, he’d mowed it all to a more manageable level. But when he hit the stage at Nashville’s Exit/In on Thursday, Jason evinced an even leaner cut. The back of his hair barely brushes the bottom of his collar, and the worldly soul patch is completely buzzed. The new JMC is cleaner, less brooding and… well, if you didn’t know he was born in 1978, you’d swear he was only 22.

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