The greatest Country & Western singer you've never heard of

[mightymouse]

Dawn Sears was an amazing talent...

 

[GeneW]

Very nice, thanks for sharing.

I'll toss Mickey Newbury in. Most people have never heard of him but he wrote some amazing songs. Here is one:



Ronnie Milsap does a fantastic cover of this song.

 

[cowadle]

 

[O4L]

Dawn Sears was an amazing talent...

Personally I much prefer Mr. Gosdin's version.

 

[SoonerP226]

I've heard of Dawn Sears; she was an amazing talent. She and her husband Kenny were in the Time Jumpers (technically, I suppose he still is), which has some amazing fiddlers, including Kenny.

This was the last song Dawn ever recorded:


And this is the Time Jumpers' tribute to Dawn:

 

[SoonerP226]

 

[SoonerP226]

 

[xseler]

I guess I still haven't heard of the best that I've never heard of............

 

[dlbleak]

When I was a kid, if there wasn’t a slide guitar used in a song, it didn’t get played at our house.
Very nice.

 

[dlbleak]

Now it’s off to go listen to some Junior Brown…