Karen Brooks

Dallas-born Karen Brooks came up in Austin’s nation music scene. Through the last mentioned fifty percent of the ’70s and the first fifty percent of the ’80s, she leant her vocals to recordings by Jerry Jeff Walker, David Allan Coe, Steve Fromholtz, Gary P. Nunn, and Townes Truck Zandt. She after that going to California to operate alongside Rodney Crowell, where she ultimately found a recording agreement with Warner Bros. Both “New WAY TO AVOID IT” and “Faking Appreciate” hit the very best 20 of Billboard’s nation singles chart, using the previous — a duet with T.G. Sheppard — achieving the best position. Before departing Warners, she released two mid-’80s albums, Walk On and Hearts burning. She was fairly noiseless until 1992, when she released an record with Randy Clear. The album, entitled That’s Another Tale, premiered on Mercury.