Sara Evans’ Divorce Finalized
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- Steve Terrell says “the original 1973 version of Bobby Bare Sings Lullabys, Legends, and Lies ranks right up there with Willie Nelson’s Phases and Stages, Waylon Jennings’ Honky Tonk Heroes, and Jerry Jeff Walker’s Viva Terlingua as one of the most lofty achievements of the Outlaw Era in Country Music.“
- Prior to writing the songs for Tramp On Your Street Billy Joe Shaver had borrowed a guitar from Harlan Howard, who believed that certain guitars had songs living inside of them.
“It was a little baby Martin,” Shaver said. “I took it and wrote all them songs and got that record together. Then I saw Harlan one night at Brown’s Diner. I said, ‘Here’s your record,’ and gave it to him, and the next day he calls and says, ‘I want that (expletive) guitar back.’ Oh, he was mad. He said, ‘All those songs were in there.’ “
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- The ugly divorce between Sara Evans and Craig Schelske has finally come to a conclusion on the grounds of irreconcilable differences. Evans must pay her ex-husband a total of $500,000 over the next ten years.
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In 1976, Willie bought Bobbie an $85,000 Bosendorfer grand piano like the one she played on “Red Headed Stranger.” But when IRS agents seized Willie’s property in 1990 to help satisfy a $16.7 million tax lien, Bobbie’s piano was among the Pedernales studio contents auctioned off.
Friends of the Nelsons bought the Bosendorfer and gave it back to Bobbie. It’s the piano she plays so exquisitely on “Audiobiography” and all of Willie’s records.
She also says she thinks Willie smokes too much marijuana.
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October 1, 2007 at 1:12 pm Permalink
Thank God the Evans divorce is over and she’s rid herself of that unemployed low-life.
October 1, 2007 at 3:06 pm Permalink
Roger that, Dave. It seems to me she had a lot more to lose from a very public, drawn out divorce. People says that Evans has primary custody of the kids and the house in Tennessee, but she has to pay him $600,000 plus their two houses in Oregon. Ouch.
October 1, 2007 at 3:12 pm Permalink
i met that turd of a husband one time (sara evans’ ex). trust me when i say this: she got off easy. if she had to pay 6 million, it would be worth it just to get shed of that leech.
October 2, 2007 at 12:29 am Permalink
Way to go Faith! I respect her for sticking up for herself and choosing to put musical integrity ahead of radio play. Maybe if all artists weren’t afraid to step outside of the box, everything on radio wouldn’t sound the same. It is interesting though that four of the biggest and most talented women in country in the late 90s/early 2000s have been pushed out/subsequently left the format. Harsh world for the women…very sad.
October 2, 2007 at 1:09 am Permalink
it would be sadder if Faith put a premium on recording interesting and compelling country music instead of just interesting and compelling pop adult contemporary music.
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