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30 Years of "Strawberry Wine": The Five-Minute Waltz That Started Deana Carter's Career

Deana Carter

30 Years of "Strawberry Wine": The Five-Minute Waltz That Started Deana Carter's Career

Nearly five minutes long, in waltz time, about a teenage girl's desire — everything country radio said no to in 1996. Thirty years ago, Capitol led with it anyway, and Deana Carter, Matraca Berg and Gary Harrison turned the song nobody wanted into the introduction that never stopped working.

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