Country-Ish Pop Song From Mid-Late '90S

[badhorsey]

This has bothered me for years. I heard it a few times on Capital Radio and never managed to clock who it was by. It had a sort of stop-start rhythm, sung by a female singer, with slide guitars in the background.

This is the nearest approximation that I can make from memory...

https://soundcloud.com/user-469782579/slidesong

[fiction-factory]

Roughly how long ago did you hear it?

[Prudie]

I'm sure you'd have known if it was a Madonna song but that's what your description made me think of immediately 'Don't Tell Me'

[fiction-factory]

Good call, Prudie

[badhorsey]

I think it was around 1997? It's definitely not the Madonna one - the link that I put is a fair facsimile of the melody.

[fiction-factory]

Sheryl Crow- All I wanna do? That was 2004 ish though.

[douglas9401]

Is it this?

[Buenchico]

If you don't get an answer here, and you herar it again, remember that you've got several hours to check back on which songs have recently been played on Capital FM:
https://www.capitalfm.com/radio/last-played-songs/

[Aquariel]

A few artists worth checking to see if it's them:
Lady Antebellum (or Lady A now)
Miranda Lambert
The Band Perry
Dixie Chicks
Carrie Underwood

[badhorsey]

Thanks for all of the input, but none of these suggestions are right. I did wonder about Sheryl Crowe, but I couldn't find a single release from that time that matched.

Like I said - the melody as I can remember is in the link.

[fiction-factory]

Lady Antebellum was much later. I notice the Dixie Chicks have dropped the Dixie because of the link to slavery.
Meredith Brooks- btch?

[198kHz]

Although it's late eighties, the Soundcloud clip reminded me of this:

[mallyh]

Dido white flags ?

[badhorsey]

Found it! Thanks to the magic of Reddit, I now know that it's called 'I Know' by Dionne Farris:

https://youtu.be/fqng9NDqKB8