Growing Up Is Getting Old
Growing Up Is Getting Old
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UPC Code: 886972691022
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Number of Discs: 1
Description
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 clich
Tracks
| Track | Title | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Happened On A Saturday Night | 3:24 | |
| 2 | Let Me Go | 4:01 | |
| 3 | Where I'm From | 4:37 | |
| 4 | Tears | 4:32 | |
| 5 | Growing Up Is Getting Old | 3:10 | |
| 6 | That's All I Know | 3:43 | |
| 7 | We Threw It All Away | 3:51 | |
| 8 | Sorry Don't Matter | 3:30 | |
| 9 | Barn Burner | 3:18 | |
| 10 | Hurry Home | 4:03 |
