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BBC Online - Radio 2 - Country - Artist Profile - Berg, Matraca
Biography and sound clips.
http://cgi.bbc.co.uk/radio2/country/artistdb/bergmatraca.shtml
Berg, Matraca
Matraca Berg Home Page
http://www.matraca.com
RollingStone.com: News: Matraca Berg Returns to the Moon
Nashville's golden songwriter Matraca Berg takes her debut along for another ride. Review of the Lying to the Moon and Other stories album, with some biographical information.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=9315
VH1 Biography
Short biographical article with discography.
http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/berg_matraca/bio.jhtml
Amazon offers Lying to the Moon (Audio CD),25 September, 1990
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Debut album from prolific songwriter / 5
Matraca has emerged as one of the most important songwriters in country music history, yet her attempts to establish herself as a singer failed utterly for reasons that remain a mystery to me.

Matraca's debut album, Lying to the moon, was released in 1990 and every song on it was co-written by Matraca. The album yielded four hits on the country charts (Baby walk on, The things you left undone, I got it bad, I must have been crazy) which sounds like a terrific start to her career until you realize that none of them got very high in the charts. Even if you haven't heard Matraca's versions of these songs, you may have heard Baby walk on (covered - as Walk on - by Linda Ronstadt on her album Feels like home), Lying to the moon (covered by Trisha Yearwood on her album Song remembers when) or Calico plains (covered by Pam Tillis on her album Sweethearts dance).

This collection provides ample proof of Matraca's ability as both singer and songwriter. So the contrast between her success as a songwriter and her failure as a singer remains a mystery.

All the tracks from this album and its follow-up were released on the British compilation The masters. As I write this, that compilation is still available in the UK.
Song "Alice In The Looking Glass"
At nine o'clock each morning down on Charlotte Avenue
The bus driver stops and lets her off
Before the first shampoo
Alice started working there when she was just a girl
And now she mans the second chair
At Thelma's Cut and Curl

A trim is just ten dollars and the conversation's free
She recreates the latest styles of 1963
With a lipstick-circled cigarette constantly aflame
She greets all her clientele
By first and middle names

And even though that mirror paints a picture much too clear
She'll mix you up some magic and she'll dye away the years
And, oh, they come and go so fast
Don't they, Alice -- Alice in the looking glass

One time she was married, but now she lives alone
But there's a little ancient poodle
Waiting there for her at home
And she'll tell you all about him like he was her only child
And rubs her swollen ankles
While she waits for you to dry

There's a picture on the mirror there of her at seventeen
The day that Thelma did her hair when she was football queen
And, oh, they come and go so fast
Don't they, Alice -- Alice in the looking glass

Even though that mirror paints a picture much too clear
She'll mix you up some magic and she'll dye away the years
And, oh, they keep coming back
Don't they, Alice -- Alice in the looking glass

BBC Online - Radio 2 - Country - Artist Profile - Berg, Matraca
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MusicMoz - Bands and Artists: B: Berg, Matraca: Links
BBC Online - Radio 2 - Country - Artist Profile - Berg, Matraca - Biography and sound clips. ... Review of the Lying to the Moon and Other stories album, ...
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UPDATE:Hillary Lindsey's cross-over hit, ?Jesus Take the Wheel? just won "Best Country Song? at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards.
Nashville's all over the Grammy map (Tennessean)
Let's say the Grammy nominees list was a big game of "Where's Waldo?" and Nashville-connected nominees were that titular be-hatted and bespectacled dude. You don't have to try too hard to find a gaggle of Waldos in the country categories, but you might be surprised by how many pop up all over the genre map, from polka to R&B.
Nashville's all over the Grammy map (Fairview Observer)
Let's say the Grammy nominees list was a big game of "Where's Waldo?" and Nashville-connected nominees were that titular be-hatted and bespectacled dude.
Grammy country picks ... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Like the Academy Awards and all the others, the Grammys were created by the entertainment industry to get people talking about entertainment and spending their money there. That said, people like talking entertainment and buying music, and if money has to be spent, here's my two cents' worth:
Marshall Chapman Plays At Charles And Myrtle's Saturday (The Chattanoogan)
Marshall Chapman, singer and songwriter, will be at Charles and Myrtle?s Coffeehouse on Saturday at 8 p.m.

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