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Current Single is Fallin' has been on the R&R Indicator chart for the past 10 weeks.

Their next single "There I Am" you can listen to the demo version by clicking the audio button at the top of this page. Justin is in the studio mixing the single and their will be a special guest vocalist.

Justin is in the studio finishing up the BrittonJack debut CD "Worth the Wait"

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Perhaps the music of BrittonJack is so effortlessly melodic, inescapably infectious and perfectly textured because its members have been playing, singing and writing together since they were kids.

Years of practice have made this duo one of the most ear-catching success stories of 2005. At the Country Radio Seminar convention in Nashville, BrittonJack was recently named the winner of “The Next Big Thing” competition, as judged by some of the nation’s top broadcasting experts.

Worth the Wait, BrittonJack’s debut CD, is aptly titled. Britton Cameron and Jack Sizemore have spent their whole career working up to this collection. Years of touring fronting bands, years of working as guitarist sidemen, years in the studio and years with their heads and hearts together as a songwriting team have resulted in a collection that is uncommonly polished and undeniably listenable.

“Fallin,’” the album’s debut single, perked up ears everywhere with its jaunty, exuberant, airy and incredibly catchy sound. The collection also includes BrittonJack’s cowritten “Doghouse,” which has become a standout song for the superstar country band Lonestar. The punchy “There I Am” is slated to become the second BrittonJack single from this outstanding CD.

“BrittonJack is about both of us,” says Britton Cameron. “We’re both singers. We are both guitar players. We both already had lots of experience before we teamed up.”

“We were both songwriters, too,” adds Jack Sizemore. “But not nearly as good as we became together. That’s why we moved to Nashville at the end of 1999. We kept meeting these other writers and wanted to be around them. In a way, I wish we’d come earlier. But we were having so much fun doing what we do. We’re very lucky. We’ve both always managed to make a living making music.”

Jack Sizemore grew up in South Florida and moved to Gainesville to attend college and play in local bands such as Paragon and City. By then, he’d been exposed to a wide variety of music.

“My dad played guitar,” Jack reports. “His family is originally from Kentucky. He has seven brothers and sisters, and they all play. My dad listened to Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard. My sister was a big influence with James Taylor and that kind of stuff. As a kid, I was a Jackson 5 freak. So I went from my dad’s country all the way to The Eagles, America and Toto.

“I was a late bloomer, though. I picked up the guitar at 15 and started playing in bands about a year later.”

It was almost inevitable that Jack would run into Gainesville native Britton Cameron. Britton was playing professionally as a teenager, and as it turned out, the two men had neighboring rehearsal spaces in the same self-storage warehouse.

“My dad always listened to AM country radio,” Britton recalls. “I loved Don Williams, even at a young age. But my mom was probably my main musical influence. She teaches ballet, tap and jazz dancing. So she turned me on to a lot of cool music – everything from K.C. & The Sunshine Band to Bill Withers. My older brother turned me on to all the rock music. But the first concert I ever saw was Alabama. I started taking guitar lessons when I was nine.”

Jack picks up the tale: “My band played at Dub’s, which is Gainesville’s big rock club where everyone played. Tom Petty came from there. We’d been playing there forever. Eventually, Britton started doing the lights for our band. And I would always get him to come down and sing a song by Journey or somebody.”

“Britton’s guitar player quit his band, Lyps,” Jack continues. “We knew each other, so one night at the warehouse across the way he came and asked me if I’d be interested. It was literally that quick. Started playing with him immediately. Wrote a song right away.”

“We’d both already written, but never to this degree,” adds Britton. “This was like, ‘OK, this is what we really need to do now, what we’re going to do a lot of.’ I also remember the day I went over to talk to Jack, he said, ‘I’m not going to come over there just to play guitar. I’m going to sing, too.’ That’s how our sound started.”

Britton Cameron and Jack Sizemore hit the road as soon as Britton graduated from high school in 1986. Within months, they were on a lucrative Southeastern club circuit that kept them working around the clock, all year. The pace was intense, but the experience made both of them much stronger guitarists, singers and writers. They were billed as House of Dreams for about 10 years.

House of Dreams recorded two albums and was then signed by RCA Records, thanks to superstar producer Keith Olsen (Foreigner, Rick Springfield, Fleetwood Mac, Pat Benatar, Whitesnake, Santana, etc.). While working on its major-label debut, the band was discovered by Nashville producer/engineer Justin Niebank (Keith Urban, Brad Paisley, LeAnn Rimes, Blues Traveler, etc.).

“Justin tried to salvage our House of Dreams record,” says Britton. “He was trying to save the day. But the truth is, the boat was al