Jeff Carson was one of the new country singers who was able to parlay the mass success of country music in the early '90s to a massive hit with his eponymous first album.
Carson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but raised in the small Arkansas town of Gravette. As a child, he sang in church and played harmonica and guitar. While he was in high school, he and his friends formed a band to play at their school's talent show, performing the Eagles' "Seven Bridges Road." After the ad hoc group won second place, Carson decided to pursue a musical career. Following his high school gradu...