The Dreaming Fields [Green & Blue]

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When it comes to songwriting, Bergs new album is a reminder of the remarkable alchemy shes capable of.

Since the age of 19when she had her first number one cutMatraca Berg has rarely been without an outlet for her songs. Sometimes its been her own progressive country albums, other times an album of Trisha Yearwoods, or Patty Lovelesss, or Deana Carters, and so on. But if Berg was going to record a song that she wrote or co-wrote, shed always do it before anyone else did.

On The Dreaming Fieldsthe Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famers first album of new material in nearly a decade and a half, and one she says she needed considerable encouragement to makethe old order no longer matters. So what if Yearwood cut a regal version of the title track four years ago? Berg reclaims it with her own breathy, from-the-gut performance. And both Carter and Kenny Chesney (with Grace Potter for a duet partner) had already done You and Tequila. Berg lends it quiet desperation.

American Songwriter
Matraca Berg – The Dreaming Fields Review