Pentatonix Teams Up With Cracker Barrel, Talks Country Collaborations
GRAMMY-award winning Pentatonix has teamed up with Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores for a partnership unlike any other.
The quintet will hit restaurants across the country to surprise Cracker Barrel guests with special performances later this year. As part of their performances and partnership with the restaurant chain, Cracker Barrel has also made the group’s No.1 self-titled studio record available at all locations. But why Cracker Barrel?
“Basically it was just a mutual, we just love each other,” the group’s Avi Kaplan told Sounds Like Nashville. “They have amazing food, they love our music and I feel like we have the same values, so it just kind of worked out.”
But most of all… the group loves the food. “Biscuits and Gravy,” Kaplan said, with the group nodding in agreement.
In addition to their partnership, the a cappella group recently appeared on the 49th Annual CMA Awards to present the Vocal Group of the Year award to Little Big Town, a group they’d love to collaborate with. But who else is on their radar for a collaboration? “Little Big Town would be so cool. Carrie Underwood would be really cool. And Chris Stapleton, that would be amazing,” Scotty Hoying admitted, adding “I feel like I’m a bigger country music fan, I was a country music fan but even more so after [the CMAs]. It was just really fun the whole community is really amazing.”
His band mate agreed. “Everyone is so nice; we were just like ‘why isn’t it always like this?’ It was like the most relaxed award show we’ve ever been too, it was so nice. Usually with award shows people are like running around but here everyone was really nice and very polite, very friendly. It was really cool to be a part of that type of award show,” Kevin “K.O” Olusola told us.
But would the group ever consider releasing a country album? It’s possible. The group even have a “country-esque” song called “Misbehavin’.” on their Pentatonix album. “It just about being on the road and being away from the person you love and just saying that you’re not misbehaving while you are on the road and thinking about them,” Hoying said of the track. “It’s a really cute song and we kinda went with a country vibe when we did it. It would be fun to do like a fun country EP. We could sell it at Cracker Barrels too!”
Pick up Pentatonix’s self-titled album HERE, any Cracker Barrel location or crackerbarrel.com.
