Sarah Buxton photo courtesy of Lyric Street Records.

Hi guys, I'm Sarah Buxton. Welcome to my brand new, updated biography! If you didn’t already know, I was born and raised in Lawrence, Kansas. I started singing when I was 2 years old, when Michael Jackson’s "Thriller" came out. From then on my musical tastes expanded, of course, but I still always had, and still have, that passion for the radio and my favorite records. I studied piano, flute and rang bells in the bell choir at church, but my first love has always been singing. I used to wake up in the morning and see if I could find a middle C and hit the note on the piano on my way out the door to check myself! Nerd.

I grew up listening to the radio and playing my favorite records over and over ? but I never considered these songs were written by a SONGWRITER. I guess I just figured Whitney Houston was like an angel somewhere stuck in a radio tower singing "I Will Always Love You" straight into my boom box. All of that changed when I discovered Fleetwood Mac. When I was 16, in my high school talent show, a group of kids performed a song called "The Chain." I didn't know who it was by and I had never heard it before, but it struck me like a bolt of lightning. That night, my mother bought me Rumours and Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits and from the second I pushed "play" on my little stereo I knew I wanted to write songs. There was something about Stevie's lyric writing in particular that I identified with and I GOT IT--she is singing us stories about her life. I wanted to do that too.

A year later, I moved to Nashville all by myself. I didn't know a soul. When people asked me what I did, I told them I sang. I started a southern rock/ jam band with my then-boyfriend and our best friends and we toured all around the southeast. It was fun. I learned how to sing when the monitors suck. We had a smoke machine. Need I say more? I guess the band broke up when I started getting more and more into the actual craft of songwriting. Before I knew it, I was writing my own songs about life with some of the greatest country songwriters of our time, including Craig Wiseman. It was Craig Wiseman who introduced me to Dann Huff and it was Dann Huff who introduced me to Randy Goodman, President of Lyric Street Records.

I had a whole plan mapped out for myself when I signed with Lyric Street Records in 2005, but, what’s the old adage? "If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans?" Yeah, well, I told Him. My plans were to IMMEDIATELY release my 1st record and have it go platinum with one hit after another. It didn’t really go that way. I connected with a lot of people through country radio and performing live, but no matter how hard I worked, there was no record in the stores for people to buy. After every show was over, so many people would ask me where they could buy my record and I just had to tell them to wait! It felt awful.