Jason Matthews Releases The Punny Hicotine

5/22/2008 Lisa Ann Schleipfer What do you get when a Country Music songwriter with a comedic twist puts together his first debut album?  If that songwriter is Jason Matthews, you get Hicotine.  Unfiltered Hicotine. Matthews, co-writer of the Billy Currington single, "Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right," wrote or co-wrote all 13 songs on Hicotine. The first single "That's What Mamas Do," is the artist’s "tribute to mothers everywhere" and is climbing the Music Row Country Breakout chart, proving the kitschy album cover and the title song, “Hicotine,” is just an opener for Matthews. The 2006 Music Row Breakthrough Writer of the Year is known for his hit songs sung by other Country Music artists. His resume contains credits for working on Julie Roberts' "Break Down Here," Kevin Denney's "That's Just Jesse," Tammy Cochran's "Life Happened," Dusty Drake's "One Last Time" and James Otto's "The Ball." "It's like that great big radio channel in the sky that you keep trying to tune into and every once in awhile you catch a little bit, and then it's back to static," said the North Carolina native in a press release this week.  "You take what you heard and you write it, you try to put all the other stuff around the inspiration." Hicotine was produced by Jason Matthews and Bart Busch and released nationally on May 6.