"Three Chords and the Truth (Sara Evans album) Three Chords and The Truth is the first studio album released by country music singer songwriter Sara Evans. The album's title comes from Harlan Howard, a country music songwriter to whom this quote is widely attributed. It also was an improvised lyric in U2's version of the Bob Dylan song ""All Along the Watchtower,"" released on the ""Rattle and Hum"" album. ""Three Chords and The Truth"" was released in 1997 on RCA Records Nashville and it produced three singles: ""True Lies"", the title track, and ""Shame About That"". Although all three of"
"song. Thus, the first verse runs: Many critics have noted the similarity of 'Lowlands' to 'Lownds', the name of Dylan's wife Sara, and Dylan biographer Robert Shelton wrote that ""Sad Eyed Lady"" was a ""wedding song"" for Sara Lownds, whom Dylan had married just three months earlier. Her maiden name was Shirley Noznisky, and her father, Isaac Noznisky, was a scrap metal dealer in Wilmington, Delaware. Critics have noted the link between ""sheet metal memories of Cannery Row"" and the business of Sara's father, as well as the quote ""with your sheets like metal and your belts like lace"". Similarly"
"the line ""your magazine husband who one day just had to go"" could be a reference to Sara's first husband, magazine photographer Hans Lownds. Written over the space of eight hours in the CBS recording studio in Nashville, on the night of February 15–16, ""Sad Eyed Lady"" eventually occupied the whole of side four of ""Blonde On Blonde"". In his paean to his wife, ""Sara"", written in 1975, Dylan amends history slightly when he sings: When Dylan played Shelton the song, shortly after recording it, he claimed, ""This is the best song I've ever written."" Around the same time, Dylan"
"first solo hit. In 1946, Lawrence published a song he had written during his tour of duty in World War II. It was released in February 1947 and eventually spent 2 weeks at #1. He wrote it for the then-five-year-old daughter of his attorney, Lee Eastman: Linda Eastman, future first wife of Beatle Paul McCartney. The name of the song was ""Linda"". Lawrence also wrote the lyrics for ""Tenderly"", Sarah Vaughan's first hit and Rosemary Clooney's trademark song (in collaboration with composer Walter Gross), as well as the English language lyric to ""Beyond the Sea"" (based on Charles Trenet's French"
"said to have inspired several songs by Dylan, and two have been directly linked to her. ""Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands,"" the only song on the fourth side of the 1966 album ""Blonde on Blonde"", was described by critic Robert Shelton as ""virtually a wedding song for the former Sara Shirley N. Lownds."" In ""Sara"" from the 1976 album ""Desire"", Dylan calls her a ""radiant jewel, mystical wife."" Shelton writes that with this song, ""Dylan seems to be making an unabashed confessional to his wife. A plea for forgiveness and understanding."" Noting the autobiographical reference in the song to"
"written as a tribute to Dylan's future wife Sara Lownds. The lyrics reflect her Zen-like detachment through a series of opposites, for example, that she ""speaks like silence"" and is both ""like ice"" and ""like fire"". Another famous line from the song also captures this dichotomy: ""She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all."" The first verse of the song has the singer infatuated with the woman, admiring her inner strength. The three remaining verses reflect the inauthentic chaos that the singer has to deal with in the outside world, from which the lover's"
"2004, he married Sarah Nicholson from Bansha, Ireland but they divorced in 2010. J. D. Souther John David Souther (born November 2, 1945) is an American singer and songwriter. He has written and co-written songs recorded by Linda Ronstadt and the Eagles. Souther was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in Amarillo, Texas. As a musician and songwriter, he was greatly influenced in his formative years by fellow Texan and rock and roll icon Roy Orbison. His first recordings were with local group ""The Cinders"" who traveled to nearby Norman Petty Studios in Clovis, NM. Their first 45 was released"
"didn't want to spend much time on it. Within four takes, the recording was done. Written in the CBS recording studio in Nashville over the space of eight hours on the night of February 15–16, ""Sad Eyed Lady"" eventually occupied the whole of side four of ""Blonde On Blonde"". Critics have observed that ""Lowlands"" hints at ""Lownds"", and Dylan biographer Robert Shelton wrote that this was a ""wedding song"" for Sara Lownds, whom Dylan had married just three months earlier. In his paean to his wife, ""Sara"", written in 1975, Dylan amends history slightly to claim that he stayed ""up"
"his first American hit song ""Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight"" written by Al Sherman and Al Lewis. Pierre Mirande (Maurice Chevalier) is a Venetian tour guide from a poor French family who falls in love with Barbara Billings (Claudette Colbert), a wealthy American tourist. Barbara loves Pierre in return, but her suitor Ronnie (Frank Lyon) and her father (George Barbier) see him as a fortune hunter. Barbara's mother (Marion Ballou) persuades her husband to give Pierre a job in his chewing-gum factory in the States. Despite living in a dingy boardinghouse and being given the hardest job"
"to 1937, when the marriage was dissolved. He was then married to soprano Lily Pons from 1938 to 1958, when the marriage was dissolved. They owned a home in Palm Springs, California which was built in 1955. In 1960 he married Sara Gene Orcutt; the marriage lasted several years. All three unions were childless. His brother, Boris Kostelanetz (1911–2006), was a prominent tax defense lawyer. After the December 31, 1979 concert with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Kostelanetz left for a vacation in Haiti. While in Haiti, Kostelanetz contracted pneumonia and died on January 13, 1980, aged 78. It should"
"and Albert Grossman to Pennebaker, the director who would make the film ""Dont Look Back"", about Dylan's UK tour in April 1965. Lownds and Dylan became romantically involved sometime in 1964; soon afterwards, they moved into separate rooms in New York's Hotel Chelsea to be near one another. Dylan biographer Robert Shelton, who knew Bob and Sara in the mid-1960s, writes that Sara ""had a Romany spirit, seeming to be wise beyond her years, knowledgeable about magic, folklore and traditional wisdom."" Author David Hajdu described her as ""well read, a good conversationalist and better listener, resourceful, a quick study, and"
"label TridentStyle/VillageAgain. From 2008-2010, she was married to Jussi Ahde, the son of well-known Finnish politicians. Sara Nunes Sara Nunes (born 1980) is a Finnish pop singer who gained some attention in 2005 after releasing her debut single ""Simon Can't Sing"" which was a parody of Simon Cowell, the famous American Idol & Pop Idol judge. She and her song achieved some notice in the United States, and charted in her native country, Finland. Sara Nunes was born in 1980 in Seinäjoki, Finland, to a Finnish mother and Portuguese father. From her early life she was multicultural; she spent the"
"his first break with an appearance on the CBS ""House Party"" television program hosted by Art Linkletter; thereafter, he teamed with David Blaylock as the singing duo of ""Guy & David"", which led to a recording contract with ABC Records. After the duo disbanded, Hovis was a soloist again, performing in Los Angeles nightclubs such as The Horn in Santa Monica, California; it was there he met his future wife and singing partner Ralna English. The couple wed in January 1969. Later in 1969, Ralna joined ""The Lawrence Welk Show"" as a solo singer; by the time the Christmas episode"
"band's first number-one song on the adult contemporary chart, where it remained for three weeks. Although written by Peter and Ina Wolf, the song was named for Thomas's wife at the time, Sara (née Kendrick). The music video for ""Sara"" prominently features actress Rebecca De Mornay and Thomas in a storyline about a relationship ending, on a Dust Bowl farm in the midwest, with frequent flashbacks to what is presumably Thomas's character's childhood and the tornado that wrecked his home and killed his mother. The music video was set in the 1950s. Sara (Starship song) ""Sara"" is a song recorded"
"are from her two sisters, Sharon and Jane, as well as her aunts, grandmother, mother and other relatives. Now living in Scottsdale, Arizona, Ralna still maintains a busy concert schedule, either performing as a solo act, or with her ex-husband, Guy Hovis, who was an aide, based in Jackson, Mississippi, to his longtime friend, former Republican U.S. Senator Trent Lott. Ralna English Ralna Eve English is an American-born singer (born June 19, 1942) in Haskell, Texas, who gained fame as half of the husband-and-wife singing duo of Guy & Ralna with then-husband Guy Hovis, both of whom were featured performers"
"Ponder died ten years later, aged 53. Martha Davis (singer) Martha Davis (December 14, 1917 – April 6, 1960) was an African-American singer and pianist whose musical comedy act, ""Martha Davis & Spouse"", was popular in the late 1940s and 1950s. Davis was born in Wichita, Kansas, and raised in Chicago, Illinois. By the mid-1930s, she had met and been influenced by Fats Waller, and performed regularly as a singer and pianist in Chicago clubs. In 1939, she met, and later married, bass player Calvin Ponder (October 17, 1917 - December 26, 1970), who went on to play in Earl"
"from 1956 to 1964. They had four children: Dana, Marty, Kelli, and Noel. Shortly after divorcing Hobbs, in 1965, he married singer Bonnie Owens. Haggard credited her with helping him make his big break as a country artist. He shared the writing credit with Owens for his hit ""Today I Started Loving You Again"" and acknowledged, including on stage, that the song was about a sudden burst of special feelings he experienced for her while they were touring together. She also helped care for Haggard's children from his first marriage, and was the maid of honor for Haggard's third marriage."
"One on the R&B charts in 1974. It was originally written for Hall's first wife, Bryna Lublin (Hall), and initially inspired by Oates' being stood up on a date on New Year's Eve. Another ""Abandoned Luncheonette"" single, ""Las Vegas Turnaround"", was written about (and mentioned by first name) Hall's girlfriend, flight attendant and future songwriting collaborator Sara Allen. Despite the fact that none of the Atlantic albums were huge national hits, in Minneapolis–St. Paul, a number of tracks on ""Abandoned Luncheonette"" received significant airplay on local FM station KQRS, making it a local hit. This and the other regional success"
"of American pop standards on dozens of albums ... many of them now long out-of-print."" ""What's New"" is the first album by a rock singer to have major commercial success in rehabilitating the Great American Songbook. Riddle's third and final Grammy was awarded posthumously—and accepted on his behalf by Linda Ronstadt just prior to airtime—in early 1986. Ronstadt subsequently presented the evening's first on-air award, at which time she narrated a tribute to the departed maestro. While in the Army, Riddle married his first wife, Doreen Moran, in 1945. The couple had six children. Riddle had an extra-marital affair with"
"it as an opportunity to write songs especially for her, many of them, such as ""The Gypsy,"" ""A Tree in the Meadow,"" and ""I'm Walking Behind You,"" became hits in the United States for other vocalists (see above). This duo had their first hit, 'Coming Home', at the end of the Second World War, a song also recorded by Vera Lynn. He formed a number of accordion bands, primarily The London Piano Accordeon Band. Reid married Jane Gordon, a singer, his second wife and their son, a.k.a. Billy Reid born 1957 was also a singer. Billy Reid (father) was Southampton"
"a crowd of 8,000 heard him speak. In 2018 he won BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Thomas met his wife, Sara Elen Thomas, through a mutual friend. The couple reside in Monaco, and were married in Wales in October 2015. Welsh-speaking fans of Geraint had begun singing a version of ""Titw Tomos Las"" by Hogia'r Wyddfa, a popular Welsh-language quintet from the 1960s and 1970s. The song, which is about the blue tit bird (Titw Tomos Las in Welsh) emphasised Geraint's surname, spelt Tomos in Welsh. BBC Radio Cymru promptly recorded an updated version of the song with two"
"Sonny Stitt With Joe Williams With Anita Kert Ellis Ellis Larkins Ellis Larkins (May 15, 1923 – September 30, 2002) was an American jazz pianist born in Baltimore, Maryland, perhaps best known for his two recordings with Ella Fitzgerald: the albums ""Ella Sings Gershwin"" (1950) and ""Songs in a Mellow Mood"" (1954). He was also the leader in the first solo sides by singer Chris Connor on her album ""Chris"" (1954). Larkins was the first African American to attend the Peabody Conservatory of Music, a well-known institute in Baltimore. He began his professional playing career in New York City after"
"Blonde"" (1966), featuring what Dylan called ""that thin wild mercury sound"". Kooper described it as ""taking two cultures and smashing them together with a huge explosion"": the musical world of Nashville and the world of the ""quintessential New York hipster"" Bob Dylan. On November 22, 1965, Dylan secretly married 25-year-old former model Sara Lownds. Robertson writes in his memoir about receiving a phone call that morning to accompany the couple to the court, and then later to a reception hosted by Al Grossman at the Algonquin Hotel. Some of Dylan's friends, including Ramblin' Jack Elliott, say that, immediately after the"
"II. His first wife was called Damita Deitrick Haddon Deitrick Vaughn Haddon (born May 17, 1973) is an American gospel singer, songwriter, music producer, pastor, and actor. He is best known for progressive gospel, and contemporary styles of music. He is also one of the cast members in Oxygen's reality television show ""Preachers of L.A."" Haddon launched his solo career as a Christian R&B vocalist with the ""Lost & Found"" on Tyscot/Verity in 2002. The set peaked at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Gospel Charts and received wide critical acclaim and spawned the hit ""Sinner's Prayer"" which was played extensively"
"Sweet Home Alabama ""Sweet Home Alabama"" is a song by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd that first appeared in 1974 on their second album, ""Second Helping"". It reached number 8 on the US chart in 1974 and was the band's second hit single. The song was written in reply to ""Southern Man"" and ""Alabama"" by Neil Young; Young is name-checked in the song's lyrics. None of the three writers of the song were from Alabama; Ronnie Van Zant and Gary Rossington were both born in Jacksonville, Florida, whilst Ed King was from Glendale, California. In an interview with ""Garden &"
"in 1995, and to photographer Mario Erwin, whom she married in 1997 and divorced in 2002. She gave birth to daughter Caledonia in July 1998. ! Year !! Awards !! Category !! Work !! Result Shawn Colvin Shawn Colvin (born January 10, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. While Colvin has been a solo recording artist for nearly 30 years, she is perhaps best known for her 1997 Grammy-winning song, ""Sunny Came Home"". Colvin was born in Vermillion, South Dakota, and spent her youth in Carbondale, Illinois and London, Ontario, Canada. She is the second of four children. She"
"fiction and nonfiction stories that describe women coping with the vicissitudes of life. Hall enjoys spending time with her three children and six grandchildren, and she lives with her husband in California. Lani Hall Lani Hall (born November 6, 1945) is an American singer, lyricist, author, and the wife of Herb Alpert. From 1966 to 1971 she performed as lead vocalist for Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66. In 1972 she released her first solo album ""Sundown Lady"", but she may be best known for her rendition of the theme song to the 1983 James Bond film ""Never Say Never Again""."
"served as state director for former U.S. Senator Trent Lott. Hovis and Lott have been friends since their college days at Ole Miss. Hovis still performs at the Lawrence Welk Resort in Branson, Missouri, for pledge specials on PBS, or with Ralna at state fairs, concert halls, and casinos. In 2002, Hovis married Sarah ""Sis"" Lundy, and the couple resides in the capital city of Jackson, Mississippi. On 20 January 2005, Hovis sang ""Let the Eagle Soar"", a song written by then United States Attorney General John Ashcroft of Missouri, at the second inaugural of U.S. President George W. Bush."
"He had come under increasing pressure over the preceding few years—his transition to ""electric"" music had provoked intense criticism from his former colleagues who were still involved in the folk music scene. His concerts and press conferences became increasingly hostile and confrontational, and it has been said that he was using drugs by the end of the tour. Another significant personal factor is that Dylan was newly married, and with a young family. He had quietly wed Sara Lownds on November 22, 1965, and their first child Jesse was born two months later (Dylan also adopted Lownds' child from a"
"Martha Davis (singer) Martha Davis (December 14, 1917 – April 6, 1960) was an African-American singer and pianist whose musical comedy act, ""Martha Davis & Spouse"", was popular in the late 1940s and 1950s. Davis was born in Wichita, Kansas, and raised in Chicago, Illinois. By the mid-1930s, she had met and been influenced by Fats Waller, and performed regularly as a singer and pianist in Chicago clubs. In 1939, she met, and later married, bass player Calvin Ponder (October 17, 1917 - December 26, 1970), who went on to play in Earl Hines' band. In 1948, Davis and Ponder"
"toured together again in 1984 with Carlos Santana. Baez recalled her relationship with Dylan in Martin Scorsese's documentary film ""No Direction Home"" (2005). Baez wrote about Dylan in two autobiographies—admiringly in ""Daybreak"" (1968), and less admiringly in ""And A Voice to Sing With"" (1987). Baez's relationship with Dylan is the subject of her song ""Diamonds & Rust"", which has been described as ""an acute portrait"" of Dylan. Dylan married Sara Lownds, who had worked as a model and a secretary to Drew Associates, on November 22, 1965. Their first child, Jesse Byron Dylan, was born on January 6, 1966, and"
"Morris Broadnax Morris Ervin Broadnax (February 9, 1931 – February 17, 2009), sometimes credited as Luvel Broadnax (the name of his first wife), was an American songwriter for Motown in the 1960s, most notably working with Stevie Wonder with whom, along with Clarence Paul, he co-wrote Aretha Franklin's hit ""Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)"". He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and after graduating high school joined the US Air Force. He later worked on the Ford assembly line in Detroit, and his friend Abdul ""Duke"" Fakir of the Four Tops encouraged his singing career."
"Elizabeth Milligan Cook, who was killed in an auto accident in Fresno, California, in 1959. Although he and Dolores were divorced, Cooke paid for his ex-wife's funeral expenses. Cooke and his second wife, Barbara Campbell Cooke, had three children, Linda (b.1953), Tracy (b.1960), and Vincent (1961 – 1963). Cooke also fathered at least three other children out of wedlock. Sam Cooke Samuel Cook (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), known professionally as Sam Cooke, was an American singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. Influential as both a singer and composer, he is commonly known as the King of Soul for his"