Three Chords and the Truth (Sara Evans album) 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 of
Singer-songwriter because it merged the roles of composer, writer, and singer, the popularity of the singer-songwriter reintroduced the Medieval troubadour tradition of "songs with public personalities" after the Tin Pan Alley era in American popular music. Song topics include political protest, as in the case of the Almanac Singers, Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. The concept of a singer-songwriter can be traced to ancient bardic oral tradition, which has existed in various forms throughout the world. Poems would be performed as chant or song, sometimes accompanied by a harp or other similar instrument. After the invention of printing, songs would be