Sara Petite Debuts At No 33 On Top 40 Americana Album Chart

San Diego, CA (Top40 Charts/ PresPak PR) - With the release of her newest CD, 'Doghouse Rose,' Sara Petite is ready for the national stage. Petite builds on a reputation for quality that has already led the San Diego-based country artist to release two independent CDs ('Tiger Mountain' and 'Lead the Parade) to international acclaim and, with 'Doghouse Rose,' to come out of the box as No 3 most added on AmericanaRadio.org's chart and to make its debut at No 33 on the Top Forty Americana Album Chart.

International audiences took notice early when her song 'Coming Home' was featured on the compilation CD 'Country,' from Universal Music in France, featuring her alongside artists like Tim McGraw, Reba McIntyre, Merle Haggard and Dolly Parton. 'Coming Home' also appears on Shut Eye Records' compilation CD, 'The United States of Americana.'

Her songwriting has earned her many accolades with a multitude of West Coast shows and European tours. She has been honored in the West Coast Songwriter's Competition; Great American Songwriter's Competition; the International Songwriting Competition; Great Waters Folk Festival Song Contest; San Diego Music Awards and she earned the Grand Prize in the 2006 Portland Songwriting Contest. Her touring schedule has found Sara opening for such major headliners as Todd Snider, Ralph Stanley, Shooter Jennings, Steve Poltz, Lance Miller and Bert Jansch.

Her music has been identified as 'progressive country,' though as American country music has adopted more of what was once pop music's Triple A format, to be progressive is to celebrate the roots of the genre. Those story songs revive fond memories of history, home and travels.

With 'Doghouse Rose,' Sara follows the musical path she began laying down on 'Tiger Mountain' and 'Lead the Parade' though this time it is tempered with a taste of the more rocking but still roots-based music of artists such as Steve Earle. Production is now finishing up with Eddie Gore producing. 'Doghouse Rose' was created and recorded with professional studio musicians at Insomnia Recording Studio in Nashville.