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Coal (CD)

By: Kathy Mattea (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Coal (CD) Album By Kathy Mattea (Artist)
1   L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore, The
2   Blue Diamond Mines
3   Red-Winged Black Bird
4   Lawrence Jones
5   Green Rolling Hills
6   Coal Tattoo
7   Sally In The Garden
8   You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive
9   Dark As A Dungeon
10   Coming Of The Roads
11   Black Lung
 

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Review

Dirty Linen (p.44) - "Mattea's voice grabs an open vowel an soars along like a hawk on air currents, making tiny midair adjustments to prolong the ride."
No Depression (pp.64-66) - "[Her voice] is careful and carefully modulated....[I]t is a complicated conversation, one she seeks gently to engage all of us in."
Paste (magazine) (p.69) - "Mattea's voice -- full, soulful and without twang -- adds welcome power to the minimalist production..."

Title Note

Personnel: Kathy Mattea (vocals, acoustic guitar); Marty Stuart (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandocello, mandolin, background vocals); Stuart Duncan (acoustic guitar, banjo, mandocello, fiddle); Bill Cooley (acoustic guitar); John Catchings (cello); Randy Leago (accordion); Eric Fritsch (Hammond b-3 organ); Byron House, Fred Newell (upright bass); Mollie O'Brien, Patty Loveless, Tim O'Brien (background vocals).

Recording information: Cave 2 Studio, Atlanta, GA; House Of David Recording Studio, Nashville, TN; Pure Music, Nashville, TN; The Payground, Nashville,TN.

The daughter and granddaughter of coal miners raised in West Virginia, Kathy Mattea has had a lifelong and complex relationship with the element. In the aftermath of the Sago mine disaster in 2006, when 12 miners perished, Mattea was inspired to create the song cycle COAL. A social and environmental activist as well as a musician, Mattea draws on all strands of her beliefs and biography for these 11 songs. They avoid finger-pointing and easy moralizing, accepting that there are no easy answers for the problems of her hometown area or the country as a whole. However, the deep emotion and plainspoken truth of songs like "Black Lung," "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive," and "The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore" is obvious even to those who had never given a moment's thought to the subject. Mattea and co-producer Marty Stuart give the album a suitably stripped-down, folky sound.

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