Three Chords and the Truth (Sara Evans album) notes. Three Chords and the Truth (Sara Evans album) Three Chords and The Truth is the first studio album released by country music singer songwriter Sara Evans. The album's title comes from Harlan Howard, a country music songwriter to whom this quote is widely attributed. It also was an improvised lyric in U2's version of the Bob Dylan song "All Along the Watchtower," released on the "Rattle and Hum" album. "Three Chords and The Truth" was released in 1997 on RCA Records Nashville and it produced three singles: "True Lies", the title track, and "Shame About That". Although all three
Singer-songwriter styles. The first such tradition was the mid-1960s invention of nueva canción, which took hold in Andean countries like Chile, Peru, Argentina and Bolivia. At around the same time, the Brazilian popular style bossa nova was evolving into a politically charged singer-songwriter tradition called Tropicalismo. Two performers, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso became two of the most famous people in all of Brazil through their work in Tropicalismo. After World War II it was developed in Italy a very prolific singer-songwriter (in Italian "cantautore") tradition, initially connected with the French school of the "chansonniers", and lately developed very heterogeneously. Although