Sarah Buxton

Sarah Buxton in Concert

Friday, July 16, 2010

8:30 p.m.

Sarah Buxton was born July 3, 1980 in Lawrence, Kansas.  She became actively involved in music as a child by learning piano, playing flute and joining a children's choir. She sang Patty Loveless' "Blame It On Your Heart" at a talent show as a junior in high school.  As she learned more about music, she became interested in songwriters and began writing poetry. After graduation, she met one of her musical idols, Stevie Nicks, who encouraged her to pursue music and move to Nashville, Tennessee.

Buxton enrolled at Nashville's Belmont University and started a Southern rock band called Stoik Oak, which toured the region for three years. After an 18-month engagement, she married Christopher Robin of the Christopher Robin Band when she was 22. However, they divorced shortly afterwards. She also felt discouraged about finding a place for her voice in the music business but found further encouragement from one of her friends, John Rich of Big & Rich.  She asked her publisher to set up some co-writing sessions, and she became more confident in her approach to singing and songwriting. In the meantime, she sang background vocals for Kenny Rogers and John Corbett in addition to singing duet vocals on Cowboy Troy's "If You Don't Wanna Love Me."

 2006-present: Lyric Street Records

Buxton signed to Lyric Street Records in 2006.  Her first solo single, "Innocence", was released to country radio that same year, peaking at #31 on the U.S. country charts. It was followed by "That Kind of Day" at #26. Both were included on a five-song digital EP entitled Almost My Record, released only to digital retailers in mid-2007. One of the album's tracks, "Love Is a Trip", was used by ABC to promote its Men in Trees drama series.

Keith Urban recorded "Stupid Boy," which Buxton co-wrote, on his 2006 album Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing, taking his version to #3 on the country charts in 2007. In 2008, Buxton recorded a duet with Dierks Bentley called "Sweet & Wild" on his greatest hits album Greatest Hits/Every Mile a Memory 2003-2008.  Buxton then released "Space," which she wrote with Lari White and Chuck Cannon, in October 2008.  It peaked at #38 in early 2009 and was added to Almost My Record. A fourth single, "Outside My Window," was released in June 2009, and has since become her second Top 30 hit on country radio. Buxton wrote this song with Victoria Shaw, Gary Burr and Mark Hudson. Her studio album is slated for a February 23, 2010 release date.

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