You can’t get more country than singer Chalee Tennison. The Texas native has a rich, powerful voice, full of knowing tears as well as unabashed twang. Her phrasing echoes Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette. And she has lived the classic, country-star life: At the age of 28 she endured her third divorce, becoming a single mother of three. Before she began singing professionally, her best job had been as a guard at the Mountain View Unit of the state women’s prison in Gatesville. Her songs, which strike a difficult balance between the personal and the universal, the traditional and the contemporary, confront those ups and downs.And maybe that’s the problem. The 31-year-old Tennison might be too real for contemporary country. Today’s female star is more…The post Tennison, Anyone? appeared first on Texas Monthly.