REDUX '11 - Matraca Berg

Matraca Berg - Critically acclaimed, Grammy-winning Nashville singer/songwriter ("Strawberry Wine", among countless hits) is back with her first album in fourteen years // Release: The Dreaming Fields (May 17, Dualtone) // Sounds like: brilliant, richly personal songs that transcend genre-lizing... while Berg has been a go-to writer in Music City, her songcraft has the wide interpretive appeal of the likes of Joni Mitchell and Neil Young...graceful, thoughtful melancholy just doesn't get much better than this...the brilliant, brutal title track, is "a somber and simply gorgeous meditation on the loss of a family farm, is perhaps the most accomplished song in her extensive catalogue" raves Slant...

Quote: “I knew when I was writing these songs, the ones that I was drawn to… that they deserved to be heard… They where a bit deeper and darker than a lot of what’s happening, so I knew it was up to me." // What we like: hymnlike lead track "Racing the Angels" -- rich Hammond B-3 textures and haunting pedal steel lines the perfect backdrop for Berg's sorrowful vocals..."South of Heaven" (the title of the album circa 2009) resonates with atmospheric guitar shadings...

Matraca Berg - "Racing the Angels" (from the album The Dreaming Fields)

Matraca Berg - "South of Heaven" (from the album The Dreaming Fields)