With a new EP slated for release early next year, this singer/songwriter plays guitar and piano and has opened for the likes of Montgomery Gentry, Rascal Flatts, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Patty Loveless. Lara previously released two albums and, although based in Nashville, has played in locations ranging from there in Tennessee, of course, to Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Iowa, Missouri, and Colorado. Hear why she says, “For women in country music it’s a tough, tough, tough business.”
“The stuff I write is definitely my diary out loud on some level.”
“There’s some (songs) that I’ve written on guitar and they’ve literally been recorded by piano and I didn’t even hear the piano in it and all of a sudden the keyboard player…is just doing something amazing.”
“I think the older I get, obviously, the message that I provide would be how I’d want to be remembered. Did it help somebody? Did it make them feel like they weren’t alone in this world, in the adventures that we get ourselves on?”
“It’s (opening for big name artists) definitely good experience. You get an idea and you get a feel for a big stage, and it’s fun. There’s some good stuff that comes with that… It’s a good place to start figuring out what you want to do.”
“For women in country music it’s a tough, tough, tough business.”
“There’s a lot going on in music right now that I’m curious to see how it will all pan out.”
“The 90s you saw lots of female artists emerging, and you’re just seeing less and less.”
“I hope to improve ‘til I’m no longer on this earth in those two ways for me, which is delivering a message but also delivering it in a really neat melody or a way that people can hear it and think it’s pretty too on top of it being something lyrically that moves them. That’s what I love in music, so that’s certainly what I gravitate trying to write.”
“If I was doing it for money I would long be done with this business.”
"Fairytale"
"No Shoes of Glass"