Live music on WRCO, Sarah Harralson performs

Backstage @ WRCO with Phil Nee is LIVE, in studio music and conversation with some of the top AND up and coming artists in the United States.

This week, Phil had the chance to bring the voice of Sarah Harralson into the WRCO FM Studios on highway 14 in Richland Center.

“Sarah Harralson presents honest, bare-boned recordings that are authentic,” stated Music Connection Magazine after hearing her debut singer-songwriter EP, Finally Found, in 2014. Her authenticity lies in her lyrics based on true stories followed by melodies that will be stuck in your head hours after hearing it. An authentic storyteller and straight shooter, she is not afraid to tell it like it is in her music. This Knoxville native began writing songs when she was ten years old, her bluegrass musician grandfather being her biggest musical influence. She was surrounded by genres such as country, rock ‘n roll, soul, and pop growing up, but the storytelling aspect of country is what ultimately drew Harralson to pursue that genre. 

After her grandfather passed in 2011, Sarah decided she would move to Nashville two years later to pursue music at Belmont University. A year after releasing her debut EP in 2014, she was discovered by Scotty Schultz, drummer of Shooter Jennings (Waylon Jennings’s son). Scotty opened up his publishing company, Raindrop Music LLC, in 2015 and after hearing Sarah’s original song “Watered Down Whiskey”, he knew he wanted to sign her right away. This would be Sarah’s first publishing deal. Scotty decided he would produce her first country EP, Watered Down Whiskey, of all original songs that Sarah has either written or co-written. “This EP will help many people and hopefully some will have their heart healed by her emotional lyrics,” stated Music Update Central after hearing the release of her second EP in February 2018. 

Sarah’s country influences range from The Dixie Chicks to Brandy Clark to Johnny Cash with the vocal sounds of Jewel, which comes across on her second EP, Watered Down Whiskey. Scotty Schultz of Raindrop Music, LLC stated that, “she is a driven woman who deserves to be heard,” and the stories will definitely be heard.