JCHA pleasant re-discovery of Sara Evans.
January 30th 2009 01:44
For me Sara Evans is not necessarily the first name comes to mind when I'm discussing the topic of women in country music. However, if one takes the time to delve into her discography it truly does become apparent that Evans has emerged as one of the more consistent popular mainstream female artists of the past decade. Please note the use of the term popular. With a strong vocal range, a strong marketability factor and an all around package it is fair to say that Evans more than deserves her place as one of Nashville's premiere female artists of recent years.
While I have admittedly always been a little more taken by her less successful 1997 debut, "Three Cords and the Truth" (which consisted of a more traditional country sound), Evans' "Born To Fly" (2000) and "Real Fine Place" (2005) have maintained a very subtle staying power in the corner of my mind and the outlet of my stereo. What tends to amaze me is that while many of her individual tracks exist in my top one hundred most played playlist, it was not until I intentionally went out of my way to discover this fact that it actually occurred to me how Evans has successfully managed to deliver multiple gold and platinum albums (as well as radio spins until very recently) over the past eleven years while also staying under the radar of a lot of fans, at least in comparison to the likes of Faith Hill, Shania Twain and various other female country artists.
I will definitely chalk this up to one of my more positive re-discoveries.
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