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Article: Sawyer Brown at Show Place Arena
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 4, 1998
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Sawyer Brown has been among the most crowd-pleasing acts in
country music for 15 years. And no wonder. Despite a half-empty
house at Show Place Arena on Saturday night, the country-rock band
acted as if it were still trying to win over the judges on "Star
Search," the TV show that launched its recording career in the
mid-'80s.
Although the benefit concert was liberally laced with the
band's hits -- "Step That Step," "The Dirt Road" and "Cafe on the
Corner," among others -- perhaps the most telling moment came when
lead vocalist Mark Miller confessed, moments before the group fired
up a bluegrass-fueled version of "Last Train to Clarksville," that
the band's greatest influence was the ...