Deana Carter
Deana Carter
Deana Kay Carteris a country music artist who broke through in 1996 with the release of debut album Did I Shave My Legs for This?, which was certified 5× Multi-Platinum in the United States for sales of over five million. It was followed by 1998's Everything's Gonna Be Alright, 2003's I'm Just a Girl, 2005's The Story of My Life, and 2007's The Chain. Overall, Carter's albums have accounted for 14 singles, including three which reached Number One on the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth4 January 1966
CityNashville, TN
CountryUnited States of America
I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.
James Michael and I played everything on the album, then brought in the guys in my band to add their spirit to it with solos and specific parts.
We grew up in Nashville, but my brothers and I and my friends we weren't steeped in country music by any means, ... We liked what everybody else liked at the time. It was like Journey and classic rock. We listened to rock when we were kids and we loved it. That's what we did. Getting older is when you got introduced to country music.
We grew up in Nashville, but my brothers and I and my friends ù we weren't steeped in country music by any means, ... We liked what everybody else liked at the time. It was like Journey and classic rock. We listened to rock when we were kids and we loved it. That's what we did. Getting older is when you got introduced to country music.
Me And The Radio is probably the most directed at my divorce and a turning point in my life to having to make a conscious choice to move on.
How do I tell you what my heart's been telling me?
I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.
I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.
I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.
Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.
I never excluded any genre on my first record.
But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.
I never listened to country music growing up.
My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.