Bucky, Jason Michael Tour Together
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9/5/2007 Country music’s two best-selling new male artists of 2007 are teaming up for the Raisin’ the Bar concert tour. Bucky Covington and Jason Michael Carroll will be joined by special guest Cole Deggs & The Lonesome on the tour which begin Oct. 25 in Corpus Christi. The Raisin’ the Bar tour will include 19 dates from Texas to New York before wrapping up on Dec. 8 in Baltimore. Jason Michael Carroll’s debut album, Waitin’ in the Country, exploded onto Billboard’'s Top Country Albums chart at No. 1 in its first week, with back-to-back hits, the Top 5 “Alyssa Lies” and the current “Livin’ Our Love Song.” "Alyssa Lies” made music history when it entered Billboard’s Digital Song chart with the highest first-week sales of any debut country artist since the inception of the chart. Bucky Covington is 2007’s best-selling debut country artist. His self-titled CD entered the Billboard’ 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” recently arrived at country radio on the heels of the Top 5 success of his first single “A Different World.” The five-man band, Cole Deggs and the Lonesome released their Columbia Nashville debut earlier this year, featuring their first hit, “I Got More,” and new single, “Girl Next Door.” The current list of tour dates (subject to change): 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