A Real Fine Place to Start

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“A Real Fine Place to Start”
Single by Sara Evans from the album Real Fine Place
Released	2005
Format	CD single, digital download
Recorded	2005
Genre	Country
Length	4:00
Label	RCA Nashville
Writer(s)	Radney Foster, George Ducas
Producer	Sara Evans, Mark Bright, Matt Evans
Certification	Gold
Sara Evans singles chronology
"Tonight" (2005) "A Real Fine Place to Start" (2005) "Cheatin'" (2005)
Music video
"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.

Contents 1 Background 2 Music Video 3 Chart performance 4 Charts 5 References 6 Succession

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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. ^[1]

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.

[edit] Charts

Chart (2005)	Peak Position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	38
U.S. Billboard Pop 100	67
U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs	62

[edit] References

[edit] Succession

Preceded by "Play Something Country" by Brooks & Dunn

Billboard Hot Country Songs number one single by Sara Evans September 24, 2005-October 1, 2005

Succeeded by "Something to Be Proud Of" by Montgomery Gentry