Sara Evans - Sara Evans Greatest Hits
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Artist: Sara EvansEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-10-09
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- As If
- Born To Fly
- I Could Not Ask For More
- Perfect
- Cheatin'
- Suds In the Bucket
- Saints & Angels
- You'll Always Be My Baby
- I Keep Looking
- No Place That Far
- a Real Fine Place To Start
- Love You With All My Heart
- Pray For You
- Some Things Never Change
Free Music Notes for Sara Evans Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: I wanted to dislike Sara for her politics but I just can't...
Hit: 5 Stars
Her music is just too good and she's such a kind and beautiful person. As a general rule, I stay away from hardcore Republicans and their music, but Sara is probably the one exception. Sara's music is a perfect melding of country and powerpop, with commercial appeal yet somehow not delving into cookiecutter or cheese. She's a great songwriter (to me, the most important thing), she's got a great, distinctive voice, and she has good instincts in choosing other people's material to cover.
Oh, and she's not bad on the eyes either, haha.
Now, I've been somewhat familiar with Sara's catalogue, and her debut, "Three Chords & The Truth", was a great alternative country album with lots of cool retro countrypolitan traditionalism, kind of like Mandy Barnett. To me, not having any hits and not getting any airplay on commercial country radio is a BIG plus, because then she would have gotten molded into an artist she would herself despise. To me, country radio ruins people and I hate their politics. BUT I'm happy RCA didn't drop Sara after that album and let her grow as an artist and songwriter, somehow crossing over and getting hits on future albums without watering down her sound or devolving into anonymity and "just another artist".
Over the next decade, Sara would garner more hits and release 4 more studio albums, enough that this would be the perfect time for a "Greatest Hits" release. Generally, I prefer multidisc boxsets and 2CD anthologies...perhaps in another 10 years, there will be one of these packages, but for now, a regular, ol' school "Greatest Hits" record (even just called that, "Greatest Hits"!!!) will do, but I like the fact that Sara recorded and released 4 new tunes on top of the 10 hits included, that it will function sort of like a new album, with the possibility of these 4 songs becoming hits themselves, and tiding Sara over until the next full-length album and she can go out on tour to support this release. Also being there are 10 of these hits, on top of the new songs, it will be a taster for newbies to check out her back catalogue, so it serves a multitude of purposes here.
Oh and the photography's not bad either. :-)
And the 4 new tunes are GREAT...including my fave song of the moment, the TOTAL POWERPOP of "As If"...man, that song has a serious bullseye knockout of a hook on the chorus, I almost fell off my chair, WOW!!! GREAT riffs, harmony on the chorus, fireworks galore...the fact that country radio is stalling on the song and it's stuck at #19 on the country singles chart in Billboard, when it should be a #1 smasheroo just proves there is something wrong, and it MUST be serviced as a crossover tune to top 40 and even AC...they would lap up this song like a kitten to warm milk...oh yes, John Shanks produced and cowrote this gem and the other 3 newbies...they have his production stamp, like he did on Michelle Branch's first 2 solo records, pre-Wreckers, a perfect blend of powerpop and commercial sensibilities without watering down the songs...very few get this blend exactly right, and John and Sara hit the mark on "As If" and the other 3 songs.
Lastly, I dislike Wal-Mart and what they stand for, but once in a while, an exclusive comes out that you can't resist, and that is the 2Pack, "CMT Presents" package for this release. It has the "Greatest Hits" CD plus a 40-minute DVD with an extended version of the recent interview Sara gave on CMT...with 9 of her vidclips dispersed inbetween, as well as a shot of "The Making Of The Video" of "As If". Nice package, and it's not sold in that cheesy plastic thing either, but a cool compact box with the CD and DVD inside.
Now, if I met Sara in person, we would get along despite our political differences, which would result in some doozies of conversations, but I would forgive Sara as she seems awesome...and if she's right, I'm looking forward to her being a comedy actress, a la Carol Burnett or Vicki Lawrence...her stint on the Jeff Foxworthy show was outrageous!!!! The clip they showed on the DVD had me in stitches!!!!
Sara Evans Greatest Hits Poster
Sara evans is one america's major stars on the country music scene. After 5 albums it's time for a greatest hits! All the favourites are there plus 4 new tracks. The first single "as if" is at radio now.Growing up in her family band in Missouri, Sara Evans learned two valuable lessons: always imbue a song with palpable emotion, and quickly change directions if a number tends to flop. Both rules have kept Evans in the big leagues the last 10 years. If she?s moved more squarely into the mainstream during this time, her adenoidal delivery and "Show Me State"-twang keeps her down on the farm, and she has not forgotten where she came from, as the irresistible hoedown head-bobber "Suds in the Bucket" proves. Evans has a tendency to wear rose-colored glasses when looking to the romantic horizon ("No Place That Far"), but it works in her favor on "As If," a bouncy, rockin? hormone rush in the advent of new love. The first of four new songs, "As If" is a perfect "starting over" tune in the wake of her messy 2006 divorce. "Love You With All My Heart" and "Pray for You" echo the new-beginnings theme. If "Some Things Never Change" seems a tired nod to routine family values, Evans apparently remembers a third lesson from her family-band days: Playing it safe will never get you kicked off the stage. --Alanna Nash
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