Album Named # 9 on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart
LEBANON, Tenn. (September 7, 2012)—Josh Turner’s latest album with Cracker Barrel Old Country Store®, Josh Turner—Live Across America, has debuted at #9 on the Billboard magazine’s Top Country Albums chart and #46 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. The release marks Josh’s sixth career Top 10 Billboard album debut and has reached sales totaling over 8,000. It’s available exclusively at all Cracker Barrel® locations and crackerbarrel.com.
Josh Turner—Live Across America features recordings from live shows during his Cracker Barrel-sponsored 2012 tour, from Lancaster, Pa. to Kansas City, Mo. and more. "My band and I had a blast making this record," Turner shares. "This is the best representation of my present-day live show and I am honored to be partnered with Cracker Barrel again.”
Fans can also download the album at Amazon.com and on iTunes.
“We’re so very pleased to see that our guests have embraced this exclusive new CD with Josh Turner and supported it onto the Top 10 list,” said Cracker Barrel Marketing Manager Julie Craig. “We have enjoyed working with Josh, and hope that many more of our guests will ‘take to the road’ with this CD.”
Turner will appear on NBC's TODAY Show on September 19, Fox & Friends on September 21, Sirius XM's The Highway, and more in support of the release.
Josh Turner—Live Across America is the latest in Cracker Barrel’s exclusive music program. Since 2005, Cracker Barrel has released CDs with a wide variety of artists, some of which have debuted in the top three spots on a range of Billboard magazine’s charts including Top DVD Music Videos, Top Country Albums, Top Christian Albums and Top Bluegrass Albums. In addition, An Evening With ... Dolly earned a Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Gold award, Dailey & Vincent Sing The Statler Brothers won “Album of the Year” from the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) and a track on that CD was nominated for a Grammy® award, and Smokey Robinson’s Now & Then was nominated for an NAACP IMAGE AWARD. Cracker Barrel’s exclusive music program includes CDs with Alabama, Rodney Atkins, Jason Michael Carroll, The Charlie Daniels Band, Ronnie Dunn, Edens Edge, Sara Evans, Bill Gaither, Montgomery Gentry, Amy Grant, The Grascals, Merle Haggard, Alan Jackson, George Jones, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Craig Morgan, The Oak Ridge Boys, Kenny Rogers, Ricky Skaggs, Aaron Tippin, Randy Travis, Wynonna, and the Zac Brown Band. For details, visit crackerbarrel.com/music.
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