In the year and a half since Vincent Mason scored a breakthrough with “Hell Is a Dance Floor,” he has found himself in more than a few conversations concerning country music’s next superstar. The Georgia native has played prime opening slots for Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert, made his Grand Ole Opry debut, and landed a major-label deal with Interscope Records, who last week released Mason’s 14-track debut album, There I Go .

“It’s me kind of letting the dream win,” Mason says of the album. “This record ended up being a story of me learning to have success, and what it takes to start that — this battle between what I’ve known and what I want to do.”

Mason, who turns 25 on Monday, first picked up a guitar as a high school student in Roswell, Georgia, and started taking music serious

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