 Matraca Berg
You could hum, and they were
all cowritten by Matraca Berg. So why isn't matraca berg a country
star herself? Does she have a froggy voice? No way. A homely
face? Hardly. Well, what is it then? It might be the hint of
intelligence in her big, confident soprano, the suggestion that
she knows more than she's letting on. Country radio hates that.
Critics and fellow musicians, on the other hand, love it and
have been huge Matraca Berg fans for years. RCA is giving the
wider public a second chance with this new anthology, which includes
a dozen songs found on her out-of-print solo albums. The new
disc doesn't include any of the singles Berg has written for
other artists, though a few have been album cuts for Yearwood,
Suzy Bogguss, Pam Tillis, and Linda Ronstadt. Snap this one up
before it, too, goes out of print. --Geoffrey Himes |
anything
better than "Lying To The Moon and Other Stories."
On the title cut and "Back When We Were Beautiful,"
Matraca plays heartstrings as equally well as she does the guitar.
Her stories search out the soul of the listener and find a permanent
place there. Her voice is moving, energized with conviction and
life experiences that are real and shared by many. Any collection,
for those whose music must possess substance, is incomplete without
Matraca Berg's "Lying To The Moon and Other