Matraca Maria Berg Hanna (/məˈtreɪsə/;[3] born February 3, 1964, in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American country music singer and songwriter.

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[1] Berg's mother, Icie Calloway,[4] moved from Harlan County, Kentucky, to Nashville in the 1960s to seek her fortune as a singer and songwriter shortly before Matraca was born.

Aunts Coleida Calloway and Clara Howard were backing vocalists on Kentucky's Renfro Valley Barn Dance.

Uncle Jim Baker was a steel guitar player who also spent some time running Mel Tillis's song publishing companies.

[8] Berg's 1995 song, "You Can Feel Bad", co-written with Tim Krekel and recorded by Patty Loveless, was a Number 1 country single, spending twenty weeks on the charts.

In 2004 and 2005, Berg was nominated for induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, making her one of the youngest nominees in history.

She currently lives in Nashville with her husband, Jeff Hanna, a founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.