Sara Storer may have started as a country singer, but on her fourth album ‘Silver Skies’, she’s looking to break beyond the country label and prove that she has mainstream appeal. Having toured nation-wide with Suzanne Vega, she has found plenty of people outside of Tamworth willing to listen.
‘My albums are a diary – they’re my personal diary. I know every song I’ve written, why it was written, for what reason it was written. My first album takes me right back to being way out in remote Australia and having that same connection to the land and wanting to write about it… My third album started to shift. I had different experiences. That’s why on this, my fourth album, I thought that I needed a change in production because my songs were becoming more general. They’ve just become a little more open – they’re not all about drovers anymore.’
‘I don’t care if it’s country, pop, whatever. I just want the right music that brings the lyrics out and makes the lyrics come alive, and I don’t want anyone to think that because I’m country I have to have a fiddle. I would like to broaden my audience… My music is changing, it is more universal now and I’m not living out in the bush, writing bush songs.’
