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"After seven years, the Broken Singles had run its course. It was an amicable breakup. After a year, it hit me like a ton of bricks - I didn't have to stop doing music," says Borges, who under the name Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles released four critically-acclaimed records (with Blue Corn Music and Sugarhill Records), toured nonstop, and drew praise from the most elitist of music scribes from Rolling Stone, The New York Times, USA Today, Creative Loafing, The Boston Globe, and others. Among the supporters were Rolling Stone magazine, which described the artist as "friendly pop–rock with bits of twang, rockabilly, and '50 pop"; and The New York Times who described her as "a modern-minded honky-tonker with a retro streak." Paste magazine hits the nail on the head when they wrote, "she has all the good parts of Sheryl Crow's sound without the L.A. pop suckdom." This time out, the singer/songwriter/guitarist took the more daunting, yet more courageous, route of going it alone. "It's scary and freeing at the same time to do a record where I don't have anyone to answer to but myself. A big driving force for this record was to find myself again and remind myself how much I love music after being away from it. I had felt this sense of loss and didn't realize how integral music was to me," says Borges, who began her musical journey in musical theater at Emerson College before making a name for herself in the vibrant rock scene of Boston. The born in Taunton, Mass.-born artist got a boost of confidence when she ran a crowd-funding campaign to raise money for "Radio Sweetheart." "I needed $10,000 to make the record and we ended up raising $16,000 in one month. I couldn't believe it. Donations would come in and there'd be $1,000 from someone I didn't know, and donations from China. Holy cow! It was heartwarming and it gave me my confidence back," says Borges, who is newly signed to Booneville, Kentucky-based Lonesome Day Records, home to her frequent touring mates Girls Guns and Glory.
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