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Matraca Maria Berg (born February 3, 1964 in Nashville , Tennessee ; first name is pronounced: məˈtreɪsə ) is an American country singer.

Life

Berg began writing pieces for country greats like Reba McEntire , Randy Travis , Tanya Tucker , Ray Price , Marie Osmond and Sweethearts of the Rodeo . The songs she wrote, Faking Love by TG Sheppard and Karen Brooks, and The Last One to Know by Reba McEntire were her first number one hits in the US country charts in 1983 and 1987, respectively. XXX's and OOO's (An American Girl) (1994) by Trisha Yearwood or Strawberry Wine (1996) by Deana Carter were other number-one hits for Berg.

Berg has been writing songs for himself since 1990 and is under contract with RCA Records . With two singles from her first album Lying To The Moon , Baby, Walk On and The Things You Left Undone , Matraca Berg had two top 40 hits in the C&W charts in 1990. More singles could be placed, but did not help Berg achieve a breakthrough as a soloist. Her last minor hit was Back in the Saddle in 1998 . To this day, however, Berg has released other albums at irregular intervals, most recently Love's Truck Stop in 2012.

In 2008 she was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame .

Berg is in a relationship with Jeff Hanna , member of the American folk , rock and country band Nitty Gritty Dirt Band .

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
Country Country
1990 Lying to the moon Country43 (24 weeks)
Country
1997 Sunday Morning to Saturday Night Country48 (19 weeks)
Country
2011 The Dreaming Fields Country42 (1 week)
Country

More albums

  • 1994: The Speed ​​of Grace
  • 1998: The Masters
  • 1999: Lying to the Moon and Other Stories
  • 2012: Love's Truck Stop

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
Country Country
1990 Baby, Walk On
Lying to the Moon 		Country36 (10 weeks)
Country
The Things You Left Undone
Lying to the Moon 		Country36 (15 weeks)
Country
1991 I Got It Bad
Lying to the Moon 		Country43 (16 weeks)
Country
I Must Have Been Crazy
Lying to the Moon 		Country55 (13 weeks)
Country
It's easy to tell
 Country66 (5 weeks)
Country
1997 That Train Don't Run
Sunday Morning to Saturday Night 		Country59 (4 weeks)
Country
1998 Back in the Saddle
Sunday Morning to Saturday Night 		Country51 (11 weeks)
Country

More singles

  • 1993: Slow Poison
  • 1997: Back When We Were Beautiful

Web links

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  1. ↑ http://www.musicvf.com/songs.php?page=artist&artist=Matraca+Berg&tab=songasperformerorwriterchartstab&sort=datedown&filter=all
  2. ↑ Joel Whitburn: The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Hits . 7th revised and expanded edition. Billboard Books, New York City 2005, p. 44
  3. ↑ http://www.musicvf.com/Matraca+Berg.art
  4. ↑ a b Chart sources: US
personal data
SURNAME Mountain, Matraca
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berg, Matraca Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American country singer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Nashville , Tennessee, USA