Briar Elaine Evans was born on a sunny May day in Jackson Wyoming to a 17 year old girl named Autumn Evans, and two adoring grandparents. Briar's early life was a happy one. She was brought up on her grandparents' ranch, spending more time with her grandparents than her young mother as her mother attempted to juggle life as a single parent as well as a full time job and full time school. There was very little time for mother-daughter bonding in Briar's early years, but that was fine with Briar. She was a very independent child and spent most of her days running wild in the hay fields, making mud pies, and harassing her grandparents' calves. During her formative years, Briar caused all sorts of havock in her grandparents' home, but her antics were well appreciated and Briar's life was one overflowing with love and support.

When Briar reached school age she and her mother moved off of the ranch and into town in order for Briar to attend school, but most of Briar's time outside of school was spent with her grandparents. It was her grandmother that taught her to garden and play the fiddle and her grandfather that taught her geld a horse and play the guitar.

It was during her younger years that Briar got her foundation in music, but it wasn't until her high school years that her passion was really born. Music and rodeo took over her life, and her classes were put ont he backburner. Her family was supportive of both things, but often pressured her to do better in school than "barely passing" because she would need her grades in order to go to college and succeed in life. This had no effect other than to cause her to concentrate even more ferociously on both.

Briar finished high school with less-than-spectacular grades, but with a full-ride rodeo scholarship to Idaho State University in Pocatello. Briar immediately hated Pocatello, but she recognized that she had the unique opportunity to go to school cost-free, so she kept her complaints to a minimum and continued to rodeo, both for her college team and professionally throughout her short years of education.

During the summer of 2002, Briar was dating a roughstock rider from Tennessee. Her thirst for adventure as well as her desire to make sure that horses were the only thing he planned on riding that summer, she traveled to the Ozark Region for her summer rodeos. It was this boyfriend that talked her into auditioning for Nashville Star. Her life would never be the same.

Though Briar didn't win her competition with Nashville Star, she did get a recording contract out of the deal, and shortly after her debut on the singing contest, Briar released her first single, Me and Charlie Talking.

From there her career snowballed. She spent the subsequent years learning the ins and outs of the music industry as well as the blessings as well as curses of being a public figure. She took to being famous somewhat poorly, but swiftly found a balance between her career and her private life that kept her relatively sane.

She's always been known and applauded for her straight-forward honesty both in her music and personally, and has always joked with interviewers that she doesn't have the fortitude to be a country music star, but that people don't get to pick their destiny and she loves the crazy ride she's found herself on.

Briar maintains her sanity by spending as much time on the family ranch as possible. She built a house on her family property "in exchange" for paying off the ranch's operating loans in their entirity. Her grandparents continue to be her heroes and she has reached a point in her life that she pesters them constantly to slow down and focus on their health. Much to her grandfather's dismay she has hired two men to help out with the ranch. While he was furious at first, she suspects that he's learned to enjoy having someone to boss around. Her grandmother continues to enjoy bossing her grandfather around with enthusiasm.