Whats the abridged Sara Evans back story?
I grew up in a little bitty town in Missouri called New Frankland. I was raised on a tobacco farm, like, fifteen minutes from town. I’m the third oldest of seven kids. And when we were little, I don’t know why, but my parents decided that my brothers would take guitar, bass and banjo lessons, and I would be the lead singer. And I took mandolin lessons. I started at four, and we had a bluegrass band with some other people and called it the Sara Evans Show, and I was the little lead singer playing the mandolin. And it just grew from there, and that became a source of income for our family. So that’s really all I’ve ever done, and I haven’t known anything else that I ever wanted to do. So are you looking for Shania-level success, or would you be happy with a low-key but successful critical standing? No, I’ll tell ya, I really don’t want to be just like a press darling. I mean, I love that, don’t get me wrong, but… You want it all… Well, I do, and I think, vocally, why not? I deserve t
