Country Siren Sara Evans at the Auditorium

There's something about country music that makes me feel uncomfortable. That could explain why after years of building a thousand plus CD collection that includes anything ever recorded by Sly and the Family Stone, Dusty Springfield and Todd Rundgren, the only country CD I own is Behind Closed Doors by the silver fox, Charlie Rich. Maybe it's the slick production or the push button sentimentality of the lyrics. Still, country is huge right now and waves of 20 and 30 somethings are leaving their rebellious rock and roll pasts behind in favor of the bittersweet, reverent sounds of today's pop-country.

Next weekend, one of country's hottest performers, singing siren Sara Evans, brings her mid western charm and good looks to the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. Last year, after a nasty divorce which found her accusing her ex of using abusive language, watching pornography in front of the children and advertising on Craig's List for a little something extra, Sara Evans married former Alabama quarterback and former NE Patriot Jay Barker in a storybook, Brady Bunch-like wedding. And with a book and a new album out this fall, Sara's Midas touch has everyone seeing green. No doubt. She was voted one of People's 50 Most Beautiful in 2005 and with a string of consistently good records and a set of pipes to deliver the goods, Evans is right there with Martina McBride and Trisha Yearwood, representing the cream of the crop of female country singers.

Show starts at 8:00, Saturday, August 29th. Should be a heel kicking good time.