One meeting with Tara Gess proves that she doesn't believe in putting on pretenses.  The singer/songwriter from Palmyra, Wisconsin all but apologizes, "folks where I'm from tell it like it is."  Tara likes to get right to the point and right now she’s all about showing the world what her music is about.

With a debut album ready for release, the 27-year-old sums up her effort, "I worked with a few producers cutting sides here and there, but I wasn’t getting the sound I was looking for.  My producers, at the time, kept insisting that I cut material they felt they could get to radio.  We were chasing after everyone else.  I’d rather be first on the block than third or fourth.  I wanted to blend country with a handful of folk and Americana influenced music.  They didn’t get it.  My desire was to put together a record that listeners could grow into.  

Don’t get me wrong, we’ve got a number of country radio hits, but we’ve also got some ‘sleepers’.  You know, those favorite songs that never get released to radio but that keep bringing you back to listen.  When I was introduced to producer, Wyatt Easterling, things began to take shape and fall into place.

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