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Growing Up Is Getting Old,Jason Michael Carroll

- Growing Up Is Getting Old
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Jason Michael Carroll
Released 2009

Barn Burner
03:17
9,489 plays

That's All I Know
03:42
9,119 plays

We Threw It All Away
03:51
8,569 plays

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- 1
- Happened On A Saturday Night (Suzie Q)
- 03:23
- 10,777 plays

- 2
- Let Me Go
- 04:00
- 11,462 plays

- 3
- Where I'm From
- 04:36
- 59,869 plays

- 4
- Tears
- 04:31
- 10,295 plays

- 5
- Growing Up Is Getting Old
- 03:09
- 13,226 plays

- 6
- That's All I Know
- 03:42
- 9,119 plays

- 7
- We Threw It All Away
- 03:51
- 8,569 plays

- 8
- Sorry Don't Matter
- 03:29
- 7,439 plays

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- Barn Burner
- 03:17
- 9,489 plays

- 10
- Hurry Home
- 04:02
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album review

The pensive, sepia-toned snapshot on the cover of Jason Michael Carroll's second album, Growing Up Is Getting Old, shows that the country singer is determined to leave the pretty-boy down-home hunk of his first album behind -- at least in terms of image, if not quite in terms of music. It may be a little softer, a little broader, a little bit self-consciously older, but Growing Up Is Getting Old shows the same fondness for arena country as Carroll's 2007 debut, Waitin' in the Country, relying heavily on sports-bar rockers and radio-ready ballads, all peppered with signifiers of Middle American life. The whole thing opens with a Saturday night bar brawl, trucks appear in every other song, whiskey flows like water, and there are dewy-eyed salutes to "Where I'm From" and trips through the past fueled by flipping through a yearbook -- all capped off by simple truths like "I think honesty is right/I think lying is wrong." Like before, Carroll can almost turn clichés into something resembling genuine emotion -- his voice is warm and friendly, giving his readings a conversational lilt. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide