![]() “Chet Atkins is one who took dad in and booked him for years at a time.” “It was really the heyday when I was growing up in Nashville,” she said. “Strawberry Wine” was written by noted Nashville songwriters Matraca Berg and Gary Harrison, and was produced on the album by Nashville producer Scott Hendricks, for whose work Carter said, “I’m forever grateful.”Ĭarter is the daughter of the late Fred Carter Jr., a legendary session guitarist in Nashville, who played with the Who’s Who of country music and numerous artists outside the genre.Īs a youngster, Deana Carter was around her father’s friends that included musical artists, songwriters, and producers. Some fun, she said, will be thrown in for the 25th anniversary of her first album and the song she has sung year after year. It’ll be a lot of fun for us,” she said adding her brother and his wife will also join the tour. My husband (Jim McPhail) will be with me playing guitar. “I think people on both sides are ready,” said Carter, who had two other songs “We Danced Anyway” and “How Do I Get There” reach number one during her career. ![]() After concerts were virtually called off in 2020, the Nashville-born singer said her 2021 tour is a way “to get back in the saddle” and connect with fans. “It will be different with all the safety protocols,” Carter said. And she recalled signing more than a few autographs on bottles of Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill wine.Ĭarter will bring “Strawberry Wine” and her gallery of songs for a concert at the Bell Auditorium in Augusta on March 26 and the Classic Center in Athens on March 27.ĭue to COVID-19 restrictions, the Classic Center is limiting the audience to 489 seats in a 2,000-seat auditorium, while Bell is selling just under 600 seats. ![]() The fans, she said, propelled the song to enough sales to earn her first number one hit on the Billboard Country Music chart. People were like ‘we like that strawberry song,’” Carter recalled recently in a telephone interview from her home in Florida. “I would play a couple of songs on my guitar and the phones (in the station) would light up. ![]() “Strawberry Wine,” now celebrating its 25th anniversary, rose to number one on the country music chart as the song topped out on her debut album “Did I Shave My Legs for This.”Ĭarter and her music producers didn’t know her first taste of fame was built into the album as they were busy at radio stations that year promoting the album’s lead song “I’ve Loved Enough to Know.” Country music singer Deana Carter remembers 1996 when she was 30 years old and her song of a bittersweet, hot summer night pulled on the heartstrings of country music fans across the nation. ![]()
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