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Foster grew up in Gause, a tiny Brazos Valley hamlet northwest of Bryan, and spent four years playing in a U.S. Navy band in the late 1980s before tasting the high life in New York in 1990. Atlantic was grooming her as the next Tracy Chapman, but Foster maintains that she simply couldn't think straight in NYC. She gave up her Atlantic deal and came home three years later.
That realization -- that she's a small-town girl at heart -- is exemplified by the stripped-down "Home," in which she encapsulates small-town Texas in the form of her recently deceased father's truck: "Betcha Daddy's old Ford is still sittin' by the ol' pecan tree / she's gotta lotta miles and there ain't much left but her class Daddy's gone now but it means a lot to me / Taking the rusty for a ride when the world gets too fast."