Kathy Mattea - Coal
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Artist: Kathy MatteaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-04-01
Music Label: R.E.D. Distribution
Soundtracks:
- the L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore
- Blue Diamond Mines
- Red-Winged Black Bird
- Lawrence Jones
- Green Rolling Hills
- Coal Tattoo
- Sally in the Garden
- You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive
- Dark as a Dungeon
- Coming Of the Roads
- Black Lung
Free Music Notes for Coal
Free Music Review: Kathy Mattea's Masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
In brief - COAL is a fantastic record and the best ever from Kathy Mattea.
Combining her talents with producer/super picker Marty Stuart and others, has created one of the best CD's of the year.
As a fan, I have been on the musical journey with Ms Mattea since her first records. She always creates something memorable, and worth re-listening to. COAL is wonderful from the first few lonesome notes of Stuart Duncan's fiddle to the final a cappela rendition of the song "Black Lung".
I can think of no higher compliment to Kathy, Marty and the other musicians that is impossible to just "play a song" from this CD and leave it. You wind up spellbound by it and want to hear the whole thing every time you play it. At least, I do!
Second intended compliment: If Kathy sings nothing but songs from COAL in her current shows, and little of her earlier stuff, I won't care!! I love the record that much.
Please note that this is a COMPLETELY independent release on Kathy's own label, Captain Potato. I doubt you'll hear a note of it on country radio. That's a damned shame, because fans of Kathy's music, acoustic country and bluegrass will love this CD.
Dean Eaton, Cambridge MA
Coal Poster
Grammy winner and environmental activist Kathy MAttea, known for such classic hits as "18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses," has dreamed quietly about one day recording an album like COAL. Raised near Charleston, West Virginia, her childhood was steeped in the Appalachian culture and her mining heritage is thick: bother her parents grew up in coal camps, her grandfathers were miners, and her mother worked for the local UMWA. But the songs on COAL are more than just mining songs. Mattea says she wanted to pay tribute to "my place and my people."The idea for COAL began to gel during the Sago Mine Disaster, which killed twelve WV miners in 2006. "I knew the time was right," says Mattea. COAL forced her to dig really deep to find the power to let these songs come forth. Co-producer Marty Stuart understood her core relationship to these songs, that they were "in her blood." As Mattea says, "I think there's a mystery there. Somewhere in my DNA, there's my great grandmother singing, my grandma, and my people singing through me, with me." Singer, songs, producer, and pickers have come together flawlessly to form COAL, a career record for Mattea and a great gift for music lovers.
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