* 1/1/1971 in Genre -CTRY

Active decade: 90s

A female country traditionalist during a time when they were quite rare around Nashville, Sara Evans gained her RCA contract in 1996 after her rendition of Buck Owens' perennial chestnut "I've Got a Tiger by the Tail" impressed its songwriter, Harlan Howard, so much he considered it his bound duty to help her. While growing up poor in rural Missouri, Evans performed with her family's band -at the age of four -and even recorded in Nashville several years later.

She eventually married and moved to Oregon in 1992, but continued to perform, as Sara Evans & North Santiam. The group opened for Willie Nelson and Tim McGraw, among others, but Evans eventually returned to Nashville to try to re-make her career. There she impressed Howard enough to recommend her to RCA executives, who connected her with producer Pete Anderson (a veteran of many albums by Dwight yoakam). After her debut album Three Chords & the Truth was released in July 1997 , Evans earned a special honor by being hand-picked by George Jones to open a special show in Nashville. No Place That Far followed a year later, and in 1999 she resurfaced with Girls Night Out.

Sara Evans - THREE CHORDS & THE TRUTH

Label RCA – released 09/30/97

1 True Lies  2:34 (Evans, Sara)

2 Shame About That  2:02 (Evans, Sara)-

3 Threeb Chords and the Truth  4:03 (Evans, Sara)

4 If You Ever Want Mv Lovin’  2:32 (Evans, Sara)

5 Imagine That  3:20 (Evans, Sara)

6 Even Now  2:24 (Evans, Sara)

7  I Don't Wanna See the Light  3:32 (Evans, Sara)

8  I've Got a Tiger by the Tail  2:24 (Evans, Sara)

9 Unopened  3: 16 (Evans, Sara)

10 Walk out Backwards  2:39(Evans, Sara)

11 Week the River Raged 4:02 (Evans, Sara)

Sara Evans – No Place that Far

Label RCA – released 10/27/1998

1 Great Unknown 3:53(Evans, Sara)

2 Cryin' Game 2:54(Evans, Sara)

3 No Place That Far 3:37(Evans, Sara)

4 I Thought I'd See Your Face  3.28 (Evans, Sara)

5 Fool. I'm a Woman 3:06(Evans, Sara)

6 Time Won't Tell 3:53(Evans, Sara)

7 Knot Comes Untied 3:42(Evans, Sara)

8 Love, Don't Be a Stranger 3: 16(Evans, Sara)

9 These Days 3: 14 (Evans, Sara)

10 Cupid 3:03(Evans, Sara)

11 There's Only One 2:58(Evans, Sara)

Sara Evans/McBride, Martina/McReady, Mindy: GIRLS NIGHT OUT

Label BNA - released 03/02/1999

1 Daydream Believer  2:54(Monkees)

2 Rain, the Park & Other Things  2:58 (Cowsills)

3 Telllt Like It Is  2:39 (Neville, Aaron)

4 Release Me (And Let Me Love Again) 3:16 (Humperdinck, Engl)

5 Whiter Shade of Pale 3:56 (Procol Harum)

6 Words of Love 2:11 (Mamas & Papas)

7 Come on Down to My Boat 2:32 (Every Mothers' So)

8 Sock It to Me Baby 3:07 (Ryder, Mitch & Th)

9 Gimme Some Lovin' 2:57 (Spencer Davis Gro)

10 Gimme Little Sign 2: 15 (Wood, Brenton)

11 Get on Up 2:22 (Esquires)

12 Green, Green Grass of Home 3:01 (Jones, Tom)

13 Everlasting Love 2:56 (Knight, Robert)

14 Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking) 3:10 (lan, Janis)

15 With This Ring  2:40 (Platters)

16 Alfie  2:42 (Warwick, Dionne)

17 Pretty Ballerina 2:33 (Left Banke)

18 California Nights 2:42(Gore, Lesley)

19 I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman 2: 16 (Smith, Whistling)

20 Where Will the Words Come From 1 :58 (Lewis, Gary & The)

21 It's Now Winter's Day 3:19 (Roe, Tommy)

22 Nicky Hocky  2:28 (Proby, P.J.)

23 Shake a Tail Feather 2:07 (Purfy, James)

24 What a Woman in Love Won't Do 2:10(Posey, Sandy)

25 Blue Autumn 2:26 (Goldsboro, Bobby)

26 Mr Dream Merchant 2:29 (Butler, Jerry

27 Buy for Me the Rain  2:20 (Nitty Gritty Dirt)