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With songs like \u2018My July\u2019 and \u2018Like A Small Town\u2019, Jayson has amassed over 6,000 Spotify monthly listeners, 150,000 TikTok followers, and 50,000 Instagram followers. He made his way to Nashville, Tennessee, for his audition where he brought his teammates from the Texas Tailgaters, a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Banana_Ball\">Banana Ball Baseball League<\/a> team, commonly compared to the Harlem Globetrotters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For his audition, Jayson performed \u2018Fire Away\u2019 by Chris Stapleton, a song the judges found to be an impressive undertaking, while playing a guitar live. He received three astounding yesses from the judging panel, including Lionel Richie, Carrie Underwood, and Luke Bryan. \u201cYou\u2019ve got a nice voice; you\u2019ve got a distinguishable voice. 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