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Sara Evans: Chords And The Truth
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Sara Evans wasted no time getting back to what she does best in the music game after her divorce. While it's true that this is a compilation released just a week after the messy event was final, this set arrived and four of its 14 cuts are new tracks. There are some real problems with assembling a collection like this: for starters it contains not a single cut from her excellent debut, Three Chords and the Truth, issued in 1997. Greatest Hits is essentially every big single, but ignores some of the ...-rans in favor of new songs. That's fine and its accurate, but it feels incomplete. The new cuts are part of the problem: the album opens with "As If," an anthemic but generic love song written with Hillary Lindsey and John Shanks, who produced all the new cuts (and you can be sure at least two of them will end up on her next studio effort).
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With six albums under her belt, Sara Evans has compiled an impressive list of achievements. Three Chords And The Truth earned her an Academy of Country Music nomination for Top New Female Vocalist. The video for the title track was nominated for Country Video of the Year by the 1998 Music Video Production Association and for Best New Clip at the 1997 Billboard Music Video Awards.
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Coming on like an up-to-date version of Patsy Cline, Sara Evans tosses her hat into the ring for best new female country artist of 1998. Surprisingly, with Three Chords and the Truth, she just may win. ...Read full review
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Sara Evans started off as a hard country singer on "Three Chords and the Truth." The problem was that none of the three singles from that excellent debut were ever close to being hits. And with her career on the line, Evans opted to go for a pop sound and with that far more commercial success starting with "No Place That Far' in 1998.
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On the follow-up to her surprise 1997 debut hit, Three Chords and the Truth, singer and songwriter Sara Evans shocked many of the fans who embraced it with No Place That Far. Where Dwight Yoakam producer ...Read full review
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Sara Evans has a voice so purely seeped in country stylings, so classically traditional, that this album demonstrated her amazing skills more amply than any she has done since. From the beautiful self-penned tracks such as "True Lies" and the amazing title track, "Three Chords and the Truth," to the covers of the Harlan Howard/Buck Owens class, "Tiger by the Tail" and Bill Anderson's "Walk Out Backwards," Sara proves she has a voice which could stand side-by-side with Patsy Cline and a delivery strong enough to partner her with Loretta Lynn.
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