A Real Fine Place to Start

Infobox Single
Name = A Real Fine Place to Start


Cover size = Single cover; 2005.
Caption =
Artist = Sara Evans
from Album = Real Fine Place
Released = 2005
Format = CD single, digital download
Recorded = 2005
Genre = Country
Length = 4:00
Label = RCA Nashville
Writer = Radney Foster, George Ducas
Producer = Sara Evans, Mark Bright, Matt Evans
Certification = Gold
Last single = "Tonight"
(2005)
This single = "A Real Fine Place to Start"
(2005)
Next single = "Cheatin'"
(2005)
Misc = External music video|" [http://www.cmt.com/videos/sara-evans/53038/a-real-fine-place-to-start.jhtml A Real Fine Place to Start] " at CMT.com

"A Real Fine Place to Start" is a single by American country music singer Sara Evans that reached the top of the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart. It was the first single from Evans' 2005 album "Real Fine Place".

Background

The song was originally recorded by co-writer Radney Foster on his 2002 album, "Another Way to Go". George Ducas was the other co-writer of the song. The song is an upbeat Contemporary Country song about being in love and getting to know a person from the beginning. Evans sings, "learnin' just who you are, sparks fly in the dark," in the chorus of the song.

Music video

The music video is mainly set in a desert with Evans singing the song in various places around the desert. In the beginning of the video a motorcycle is shown driving along a road in the middle in the desert with a couple in it. The couple then stops on the roadside and the video then shows the two holding hands and sitting on rocks in the desert. The couple exemplifies what the song is talking about. The video regularly shifts between Evans and the couple in the music video. While the video isn't showing the couple, it is showing Evans singing in various places in the desert, including desert rocks and by a bonfire. Towards the middle of the song, the video shows Evans performing with a band at night. The video also shows Evans playing her rhythmic guitar for a brief period of time.

The music video aired on CMT's "Top 20 Video Countdown" in mid-year in 2005, and stayed on for a number of weeks.

Chart performance

"A Real Fine Place to Start" was released as a single in May 2005 and was released to the iTunes music store May 31, 2005. The song spent over three months on the Billboard Country Chart that year before peaking in September. It stayed at number one on the country charts for two weeks and was one of the biggest hits of the summer and of the year. [ [http://www.superiorpics.com/sara_evans/ Sara Evans - "A Real Fine Place to Start" reaches #1 on the Country chart] ]

While also reaching #1 on the Country chart, the song also peaked at #38 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Evans' fifth Top 40 hit on the Hot 100. It also became Evans' first single to chart on the Pop 100, peaking at #67 in September, as well as becoming her first single to peak on the Hot Digital Songs chart, reaching #62 that month also.

Charts

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