Cracker Barrel Exclusive Albums Rank High in Billboard.com Top 50 Bluegrass Albums Of 2011
#6: The Grascals and Friends: Country Classics With a Bluegrass Spin
#17: Dailey & Vincent Sing The Statler Brothers
LEBANON, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Hundreds of thousands of people across the country stopped by Cracker
Barrel Old Country Store during 2011 for some good country cookin' and
thousands of them also bought some good bluegrass music. Billboard.com
recently ranked the Top 50 Bluegrass Albums of 2011 based on sales data
provided by Nielsen SoundScan and two Cracker Barrel exclusive music
program CDs earned spots on the list.
The Grascals, who are among the most beloved and acclaimed bands on
today's bluegrass scene, won SPBGMA's Bluegrass Band of the Year award
in 2010, the International Bluegrass Music Association's Emerging Artist
of the Year award in 2005 and earned its Entertainer of the Year honor
in both 2006 and 2007. They teamed up with eight of their famous friends
on the crossover album The Grascals and Friends: Country Classics
With a Bluegrass Spin that Cracker Barrel released in January
2011. Those famous friends included Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley,
Charlie Daniels, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, The Oak Ridge Boys, Joe
Nichols and Darryl Worley. A visit to St. Jude Children's Research
Hospital led the group to write the bonus track "I Am Strong" for
the album. In honor of The Grascals caring spirit, Cracker Barrel
donated a percentage of the proceeds from the CD to the hospital. The CD
was recently ranked #6 on the Billboard.com Top 50 Bluegrass Albums of
2011.
The 2011 Grammy-nominated (Best Country Performance by a Vocal Group or
Duo) Dailey & Vincent Sing The Statler Brothers album debuted
at #1 on Billboard's Top Bluegrass Albums chart, where it spent nine
weeks in the top position and 19 weeks overall in one of the three top
positions when it was released on February 1, 2010. Jamie Dailey and
Darrin Vincent recognized the timeless quality of the Statlers' songs
and the project resonated with Cracker Barrel's guests. The CD continued
as an audience favorite in 2011 and was recently ranked #17 on the
Billboard.com Top 50 Bluegrass Albums of 2011. In addition the album was
hailed as Bluegrass music's 2010 "Album of the Year" (IBMA & SPGMA).
"We are thrilled with the success that these two outstanding bluegrass
groups have earned," said Cracker Barrel Marketing Manager Julie Craig.
"This type of recognition reinforces our commitment to offer
authenticity and quality through the Cracker Barrel exclusive music
program. The Grascals and Dailey & Vincent are exceptional in the world
of bluegrass and we are honored to work with them."
In September, The Oak Ridge Boys' CD It's Only Natural was
released through Cracker Barrel's exclusive music program. In July,
Cracker Barrel released Jason Michael Carroll's all-country
Numbers with 11 new songs and one previous hit. In May, Cracker
Barrel released Teddy Gentry's Best New Nashville with original
music from 12 talented new artists and Randy Travis' self-titled album Randy
Travis. In March of this year, Cracker Barrel released Kenny Rogers' The
Love of God, which debuted at #8 on the Billboard Top Country Albums
chart and #2 on the Top Christian Albums chart. In January, Cracker
Barrel released The Grascals & Friends - Country Classics With A
Bluegrass Spin, which debuted at #1 on Billboard magazine's
Bluegrass Albums chart and at #26 on Billboard's Top Country Albums
chart. In November 2010, Cracker Barrel released Smokey Robinson's Now
& Then, which debuted at #19 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart
and was nominated for an NAACP IMAGE AWARD. September saw the release of
the self-titled Rodney Atkins, which included four #1 hits, and
Mandy Barnett's Winter Wonderland. Over the last few years,
Cracker Barrel has released exclusive CDs with Craig Morgan, Wynonna,
Dailey & Vincent, Alan Jackson, the Zac Brown Band, George Jones,
Montgomery Gentry, Dolly Parton, Bill Gaither, Ricky Skaggs, Aaron
Tippin, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Josh Turner, Amy Grant, Kenny
Rogers, Sara Evans and Charlie Daniels.
About Cracker Barrel
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store provides a friendly home-away-from-home
in its old country stores and restaurants. Guests are cared for like
family while relaxing and enjoying real home-style food and shopping
that's surprisingly unique, genuinely fun and reminiscent of America's
country heritage…all at a fair price. The restaurant serves up
delicious, home-style country food such as meatloaf and homemade chicken
n' dumplins as well as its made from scratch biscuits using an old
family recipe. The authentic old country retail store is fun to shop and
offers unique gifts and self-indulgences.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBRL) was established in
1969 in Lebanon, Tenn. and operates 608 company-owned locations in 42
states. Every Cracker Barrel unit is open seven days a week with hours
Sunday through Thursday, 6 a.m. — 10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 6
a.m. - 11 p.m. For more information, visit crackerbarrel.com.
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Media contacts:
For Cracker Barrel
Jeanne Ludington,
615-443-9115
jeanne.ludington@crackerbarrel.com
or
For
The Grascals
Webster & Associates
Kirt Webster,
615-777-6995
kirt@websterpr.com
or
For
Dailey & Vincent
Absolute Publicity
Don Murry Grubbs,
615-275-8380
don@absolutepublicity.com
Source: Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
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