The Steel Guitar Forum

Anyone happen to know who is playing steel on the road with Sara Evans these days?

It's been a few years but she didn't have one. She was good but the music was painfully loud.

Ben... yes saw her Saturday Evening. No steel .... not loud but leaned more toward the rock side than country. She sounded good... excellent guitarist.

I think her first CD (I believe Restless) was country but then she went more the rock/pop route. She is a great country singer however.

My favorite album of hers is "No Place That Far". Tons of great steel guitar on that one.

Yeah, she sang well but I went expecting a bit more of her country side I guess. No steel was a deal breaker for me.
Last time I saw her she was carrying a steel. Good player as I remember. There was some family in the band. Ah well.....Nepotism runs deep in the entertainment world.

Her first album was "Three Chords And A Truth". This album is partly responsible for me taking an interest in country music. I was in a truck stop somewhere in America back in the late 90's, and they played her version of "Imagine That" (originally done by Patsy Cline) - very bluesy country tune - and I thought it sounded amazing. So, when they said who did the song, I remembered, and next time I was off I went by a music store and bought the CD. Nothing else on the album was like "Imagine That", but there were some other great covers of country classics, like "Tiger By The Tail" and "Walk Out Backwards". I'd been listening to some Americana musicians with strong country roots like Lucinda Williams and Steve Earle, but much of this Sara Evans album was pure, old-school country - it took several plays through before I got hooked.

On the "No Place That Far" record, Sonny Garrish was playing steel on it. When the "Restless" record was released, Gary Morse was the steel guitarist on "Suds In The Bucket". Sara had performed the song on the '04 CMA Awards and Gary Morse played steel with Sara, after being onstage with Dierks Bentley-he was Dierks' road steel guitarist at the time. In '05, when Sara released her song "Cheatin'", Gary Morse was on that song too, but at the '05 CMA Awards, Randle Currie was playing a paisley MSA onstage with her, and in '06, Gary Morse was onstage again playing steel with her as she sang "Real Fine Place To Start".

Not steel related. I once saw the Mavericks at the London Royal Albert Hall. Sara sang a few numbers and was backed by them. As an encore they did Downtownto to a roaring applause of the crowd. Back than in London it was so fitting.