A glamorous country starlet with a smooth voice, good looks and a wicked turn of
phrase, Deana Carter was seen as a refreshing antidote to vacuous Nashville pop
when she broke through in the 1990s with her alt. folk melodies, barbed, bitter
sweet lyrics and unflinching honesty. The daughter of country guitarist Fred
Carter Jnr, she got her break relatively late at 30, when Willie Nelson heard
her demo recordings and put her on the bill at Farm Aid in 1994; and she was
already a divorced, single mum by the time debut Did I Shave My Legs For This?
(1995) was released. The album mad...