Sara Beck - ProfilesArchive

About Me

If you're looking for something official, check out www.sarabeck.net. If you're of a mind to ramble, read on!I'm from Chicago, North Carolina, and Maryland. Nashville is my home, and my roots are in Texas Hill Country and the plains of the midwest. My entire family makes music and likes to have animals nearby. I have three dogs, and the little one weighs in at about 55lbs. Every one of them is a certified mutt.I adore songs, line by line, rhyme by rhyme, note by note. I like playing with words and textures and melody in the same way I like coming up with dinner when there's no food in the refrigerator. I am chasing the perfect song, but she's wily and slips away even as I catch her reflection on the body of my Martin J-65. I particularly adore a good country song. How can it be so simple and so profound? Do so much with so little? I am after the perfect song.I've had some incredible moments performing that have hooked me forever. I love being onstage, and I used to worry that it meant I had a hopelessly large ego. I don't think so anymore. I just like to be onstage.My music has been called dark by the light camp, light by the dark camp, country by the indie rockers, alternative by the Nashville music rowers, edgy by the straight-laced, and wholesome by a few on the outskirts....there's a little of it in all of those descriptions. There's a little of me in all those descriptions.I'm thankful for this big ol' thing called cyberspace that lets me put my music out there in the world for you to hear. Say hello sometime. CompleteMyspace.com only the best Myspace Layouts ! CompleteMyspace.com only the best Myspace Layouts !

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Member Since: 3/30/2005
Band Website: sarabeck.net
Band Members: Revolving band includes Park Chisolm, Tim Marks, Jeff Marino, Nick Buda, Jen Gunderman, Adam Wright, Kimberly Quinn, Mike Daly...when I'm lucky. These guys rock.
Influences: Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Stevie Wonder, Etta James, Alison Krauss + Union Station, Patty Griffin, Darrell Scott, Lyle Lovett, Dwight Yoakam, Counting Crows, Elvis Costello, Ms. Difranco, Tracy Chapman, Springsteen, Tom Waits, Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, Bill Monroe, Ella Fitzgerald, Emmylou, Madonna, BoyzIIMen, Babyface, Michael Jackson, Sade, Joni Mitchell, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Eddie from Ohio, Janis J., Amy & Emily in all their incarnations, Gillian Welch, John Prine, John Hiatt, Cheryl Wheeler, Fleetwood Mac, Alicia Keys, Pink, Christina Aguilera, Jackson Brown, Bobbie Gentry, Maia Sharp, Kelly Willis, Bruce Robison, The Dixie Chicks, Prince, Linda Ronstadt, Jack Johnson, Gwen Stefani, Nina Simone, Patty Loveless, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, & David Mead. The Maryland suburbs. Texas. Dogs---particularly big, slobbery ones. Higher Education. Spain. Illiteracy. Rita Hayworth. Alice Walker and Tom Robbins. The color orange. Fingerpainting. Bowling alleys. XM Radio. Roadtrips. Cheap red wine and gooey brownies. Recently...John Legend, Amos Lee, Gabe Dixon, Lauryn Hill, Jeremy Lister, India.Arie, more Stevie, Carla Thomas, The Roots, Francis Dunnery, Emily West, Ben Harper, Corrinne Bailey Rae, Feist, Tegan & Sara, Lizz Wright, Ann Peebles, & Tori Amos.
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Record Label: Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Type of Label: None

My Blog

...make new friends, but keep the old...

...this past weekend, I joined one of my best friends, Ashley, in New Orleans, to celebrate her bachelorette status coming to a screeching halt this June. We went to Jazzfest, saw amazing performances...
Posted by Sara Beck on Thu, 08 May 2008 10:05:00 PST

Since Your Love Came to Town...

I love this song, and I want you to listen to it. :) I especially love the groovy bridge and the outro, so listen to the whole thing, OK?Cool.
Posted by Sara Beck on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:21:00 PST

Dictionopolis, Karens wicked drum solos, Bama BBQ, & "My Amp Goes to 11: Tales from a Tele"

...I have been a bum this weekend. In a good way, though. I mean, I have hardly left the house, but I've been pretty excited all the same. Check it out. Here's what's kept me so occuppied...1. The Pha...
Posted by Sara Beck on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:31:00 PST

SUGAR...

Curb recording artist Ashley Gearing recently cut a song of mine called "Sugar," and it's posted on her myspace page! She did a really wonderful version of it, and I got to sing all the pretty oohs, a...
Posted by Sara Beck on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:14:00 PST

Sara Beck UNPLUGGED~

Hey!...I just put up an alt. SB site with live recordings, interesting work tapes, and guitar/vocals. I have always loved live and acoustic stuff, and I have lots of it laying around waiting to be hea...
Posted by Sara Beck on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:25:00 PST

FULL BAND SHOW Monday Dec. 17th (and some Angel madness in the meantime...)

It's December! Make every day a holiday and come rock with us Monday night at The Basement. Monday, Dec. 17th at 9pm. You heard it here.Kimberly Quinn will do a few tunes acoustic, then I'll play, and...
Posted by Sara Beck on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:23:00 PST

Singing with Stevie Part II/Listen Nashville!

What a ridiculous-continuous-mind-blowing-rush. Last night I was invited to join Stevie Wonder and his band at the Sommet Center and sing one of my songs. Every member of the band was warm and welcomi...
Posted by Sara Beck on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:10:00 PST

Yuletide from the Other Side.....East Nashville sings Fa-la-la!!

Do you guys know Eric Brace? He's the killer frontman for "Last Train Home," a rockin' roots band here in town. Eric lives over in the land of East Nashville, and he has taken it upon himself to sprea...
Posted by Sara Beck on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:01:00 PST

Singing with Stevie...

Last weekend, I got to sing Amazing Grace with Stevie Wonder. It was one of the coolest things I've ever done. The short story is, we have a mutual friend whose mother passed away, and both of us sang...
Posted by Sara Beck on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 09:34:00 PST

cleats are for winners, and fall is forever...

I will never become numb to the way the air changes around the first few weeks of September...it begins to smell like the freshly cut grass and shin guards of high school autumn afternoons, where fiel...
Posted by Sara Beck on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:26:00 PST