We Remember: Dawn Sears (1961-2014) Singer By Jewly Hight One of Dawn Sears signature numbers when she performed with The Time Jumpers each Monday night was Dont You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me). She mustve sung that old, Hank Cochran-penned weeper — a mid-60s hit for Ray Price and late-80s No. 1 for Ronnie Milsap — hundreds of times. Not because it had done anything for her on the charts, but because she had a way of teasing intensely personal emotion even from half-century-old honky-tonk standards, and that had a way of enthralling crowds. There were several different eras to Sears Nashville career: when Ralph Emery first gave her screen time on TNN; when she cut a pair of neo-trad major-label solo albums that disappointed commercially; when she became a harmony-singing fixture in Vince Gills backing band; when she, her fiddler husband Kenny Sears and the rest of their Western swing group, which eventually included Gill, became a live institution. But the most significant thing she accomplished in music, on a weekly basis, was illuminating the consequential expression in country heart songs with her elaborately intimate phrasing and the climactic flaring of her sumptuous, full-throated vocal tone. https://youtube/watch?v=H4fIZaX1gig
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 20:22:34 +0000
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