J.W. mentions:
>"If You Ever Want My Lovin'" - Sara Evans - a decent song. It seems to
>me that Ms. Evans has borrowed a lot of Melba Montgomery's singing style.
>The most blatant example is Cupid, the duet with George Jones on No Place
>That Far, where she sounds exactly like Melba.
I attended a BMG promo shindig here last week featuring performances by
Sara Evans, the Warren Brothers (great stage presence; one of them even did
some buckdancing...but their songs are generic, flatulent "heartland" rock
, not country in the slightest) and Keith Glass & Russell DeCarle from
Prairie Oyster. The whole thing was filmed by CMT for their "Hot Ticket"
concert series. Evans was, as Jon noted a while back, solid as a rock and
plenty country. As she is a couple of months pregnant there were a lot of
one-liners on the level of "she's gonna be the next big thing in country
music", etc. If she is the next big thing, that's okay by me - great
voice, good songs, engaging onstage presence and her love of traditional
country isn't just lip service.
The surprising highlight of the show was a duet by Evans and Keith Glass of
Fastball's "The Way", recast with a big heap of twang. I'd mostly ignored
this song on the radio - the first few times I heard it I assumed it was
Squeeze - but throw in a dobro and now I can't get it out of my head.
Allen Baekeland
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