Jason Michael Carroll was born on June 13, 1978 in Houston, Texas is an American country music singer. In 2004, encouraged by his mother, Carroll won a local singing competition, WRAZ FOX 50's Gimme the Mic. During this same period, Carroll had finished writing "Alyssa Lies."

Carroll says he struggled to the point of getting migraines for a year and a half before finishing the song. He was discovered by Rusty Harmon, the manager who produced Hootie & the Blowfish a decade ago. By the summer of 2005, Carroll was a regular along Nashville's Music Row. He later signed with the booking agency Monterey Peninsula Artists Nashville and entered a recording agreement with Arista Records.

Carroll's debut album Waitin' in the Country, produced by Don Gehman (Pat Green, John Mellencamp, Hootie, REM) was released on February 6, 2007. In its opening week, it debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums Charts.

With first-week sales of 57,608, and a Billboard 200 pop chart entry at #8, Carroll had once achieved both the best unit sales and the highest pop chart debut by a new country male artist since Billy Ray Cyrus in 1992. However, newcomer Bucky Covington's debut album later surpassed Carroll's sales.