Real Fine Place

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Real Fine Place is Sara Evans’s fifth studio album, released October 4, 2005, on RCA Nashville. It was recorded in 2004–2005 at Starstruck Studios in Nashville and The Sound Kitchen in Franklin, and produced by Sara Evans and Mark Bright. The album follows her platinum-selling Restless (2003) and runs about 53 minutes.

The project features Evans’s fourth No. 1 country hit, “A Real Fine Place to Start,” along with the Top 10 single “Cheatin’,” the Top 20 hit “You’ll Always Be My Baby,” and the Top 40 hit “Coalmine.” It debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 124,720 copies sold in its first week and was later certified platinum by the RIAA. “A Real Fine Place to Start” was co-written by Radney Foster, who also recorded it on his 2002 album Another Way to Go. “Missing Missouri” also charted from unsolicited airplay.

Family members helped with backing vocals on several tracks, including Evans’s mother Patricia Boggs Evans and father Jack Evans, her brother Matt Evans (also a production assistant), and sisters Lesley Evans Lyons and Ashley Evans Simpson. The song “Supernatural” on the album was originally recorded by Susan Ashton on her 1999 album Closer.