Strawberry Wine (Deana Carter song)

Infobox Single
Name = Strawberry Wine


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Artist = Deana Carter
from Album = Did I Shave My Legs for This?
Released = 1996
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Genre = Country
Length = 4:51
Label = Capitol
Writer = Matraca Berg, Gary Harrison
Producer = Chris Farren, Jimmy Bowen, John Guess
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Last single =
This single = "Strawberry Wine"
(1996)
Next single = "We Danced Anyway"
(1997)
Misc = External music video|" [http://www.cmt.com/videos/deana-carter/94489/strawberry-wine.jhtml Strawberry Wine] " at CMT.com

"Strawberry Wine" is a song written by Matraca Berg and Gary Harrison, first recorded by Deana Carter on the album "Did I Shave My Legs for This?" (1996). The song went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, was a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Country Song nominee, a 1997 Academy of Country Music Awards Best Country Song nominee, a 1997 Country Music Radio Awards nominee for Song of The Year, and the winner of Song of the Year at the Country Music Association Awards in 1997. It was also voted Song of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Association International and the Nashville Music Awards that year.

The song, a ballad, tells the story of co-writer Berg's own coming of age as a teenager outside of Luck, Wisconsin, she recalled: "We used to go to my grandparents' dairy farm in the summer. My aunt, who's six months younger than me, and I would try to score some wine. And I met this boy..." [Woliver, Robbie (January 28 1997). " [http://www.matracaberg.com/articles/strawberrywinewomenandsong.php Strawberry wine, women, and song: Matraca Berg's formula for success...] ". "Country Weekly". Retrieved on September 15 2007.] Berg shopped the song to record labels around Nashville, but they passed, considering it overly long and controversial, and not memorable enough.Hoekstra, Dave (September 14 1997). " [http://www.matracaberg.com/articles/wineandnotices.php `Wine' and notices // Matraca Berg gets a boost] ". "Chicago Sun-Times", pg. 11. Retrieved on September 15 2007.] Deana Carter heard Berg perform the song at a showcase and then recorded it for her debut album, "Did I Shave My Legs for This?".

Music video

A music video was released for "Strawberry Wine", directed by Roger Pistole. Carter sings the song while standing in the entry way to a house, on a living room couch, and behind a screen door. Accompaning these scenes are a young couple in love. The couple are seen on an old dirt road in the countryside, in front of a house, and in a car driving down a road. Scenes of other people are included as well, including an elderly man by a rocking chair and a woman standing in what was once farmland.

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