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Carter feels connected to Evans and Clark because they’re blessed with a sense of humor and don’t take themselves so seriously. McBride had always been an artist Carter looked up to when she was the new girl in country. Carter, Alaina, and McBryde had performed “Strawberry Wine” together at the 2018 ACM Honors awards show at the historic Ryman Auditorium. She says choosing those collaborators was easy, because she went to the singers she had a connection with. Carter invited Lauren Alaina, Ashley McBryde, Kylie Morgan, Martina McBride, and Vince Gill to join her on “Strawberry Wine,” and Terri Clark, Sara Evans, McBryde, and Gill to share the mic with her on the title track. And now, all these years later, she is celebrating the kind of music the world still cherishes with the 25th Anniversary Edition of her groundbreaking debut, due out November 5.
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It’s where we go from there that’s up to us, and that’s what listeners relate to.”īeing true to her own life story is what Carter thinks made her music stand the test of time. You live through it and you get past it, but there’s some nostalgia in how we are always connected to our roots. “Everybody’s had that first love, that first heartache, that first experience that maybe didn’t end the way they’d hoped. Recording that song was like a victory dance as well as a lesson for me, because it allowed me to open my heart and my mind to someone else potentionally writing something that I had lived,” the singer-songwriter says. It was exactly my emotions and my experience. It didn’t sound like anything else, and it was progressive at the time. “I wanted to record it because it was the only time I’d ever heard something that I felt like I had lived it. Much like the young girl in the song, Carter’s grandparents had a farm, she had a first love when she was a teenager, and the whole story was just like hers. But then I heard ‘Strawberry Wine,’ and I was like, ‘How did you write my life story?’” And I didn’t want to compromise my artistic integrity,” Carter says now, looking back, “because I’d worked so hard to build it. So you can be earnest in the message you’re sending. “I’d been raised to sing songs that are meaningful to you so that they’ll resonate with the people listening. When Carter first heard “Strawberry Wine,” written by Matraca Berg and Gary Harrison, she recalls being floored by how it mirrored her own life story, even though she wasn’t the one holding the pen. 1 with “Strawberry Wine.” Her very first single off of her very first album went on to be named the Country Music Association’s Single of the Year and Song of the Year in 1997, as well as nominated for a GRAMMY and an Academy of Country Music award.
DEANA CARTER JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE PLUS
And now, she’s celebrating her 5X Platinum debut album from 1996 - Did I Shave My Legs for This? - with an anniversary reissue of remastered songs, plus two new tracks which Carter produced herself that feature country music’s brightest stars from several eras.īut before you can even think about that new release, you have to throw yourself back to the original one in the 90s, when women were all over the top of the charts, and newcomer Carter was able to waltz right in and reach No. How many years has it been since you had your first taste of love? And how many years have you spent cherishing that love? It’s funny how those memories, they last.įor Deana Carter, who brought that very special kind of love to life in her debut single “Strawberry Wine,” it’s been 25 years.
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25th Anniversary Edition of the Groundbreaking