A Real Fine Place to Start

"A Real Fine Place to Start"
Single by Sara Evans
from the album Real Fine Place
ReleasedMay 9, 2005 (2005-05-09)[1]
Recorded2005
Genre
Length4:00
LabelRCA Nashville
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Sara Evans singles chronology
"Tonight"
(2004)
"A Real Fine Place to Start"
(2005)
"Cheatin'"
(2005)
Music video
"A Real Fine Place to Start" at CMT.com

"A Real Fine Place to Start" is a song co-written and originally recorded by American country music artist Radney Foster, taken from his fifth studio album Another Way to Go (2002).[3] Foster wrote the track with George Ducas and produced it as well.

The track was then recorded by singer Sara Evans, released on May 9, 2005, as the lead single and title track to her fifth studio album Real Fine Place (2005) by RCA Nashville Records. Evans's version was produced by she and Mark Bright. It received positive reception and became her fourth number one single on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, spending two weeks atop the chart. The track has been certified Gold by the RIAA for digital sales of 500,000 copies.

  1. ^ "New Music Weekly: For the Week of May 9". Billboard Radio Monitor. Vol. 13, no. 18. May 6, 2005. p. 16.
  2. ^ Contemporary Country. Backbeat Books. 2007. p. 47. ISBN 9780879309183. ...lead single "Real Fine Place to Start" is a breezy foot-tapper that shows off Evans' throaty vocal over steady pop percussion.
  3. ^ Another Way to Go (album liner notes). Radney Foster. Dualtone Records. 2002. 80302.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)