Kathy Mattea opposes coal mountaintop clearing
Sierra Club Vice President for Conservation Robin Mann will join Mattea and community leaders on an aerial tour of the coalfields near Charleston and then visit with residents on Kayford Mountain, West Va.
"Between the research for my current project of coal music, and my work as part of The Climate Project, giving slide shows on global warming and the environment, I have bumped up against the issue of mountain top removal from many angles in recent months," said Mattea. "I wanted to come see for myself what's happening in my home state."
Mountaintop removal is a form of coal mining where large sections of mountains are blown off in order to expose the coal.
Mattea's grandfathers were coal miners, and her upcoming album, "Coal," draws on the musical influences of Appalachia's coal history.
More news for Kathy Mattea
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- 02/14/08: Kathy Mattea opts for "Coal"
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CD reviews for Kathy Mattea
"Pretty Bird" is Kathy Mattea's first studio album in six years, following 2012's "Follow Me Home." The major reason for this gap was Mattea's realization that her voice was changing so much, she felt as if she was losing it altogether. Through vocal coaching and dedicated perseverance she has emerged, singing in a lower, albeit richer voice, for a strong album of interpretative covers.
Keep in mind that Mattea has won two Grammys, four CMA Awards, has ...
As a commercially successful country artist during the '80s and '90s, Kathy Mattea hit the top 20 with no fewer than 21 singles, and although she last reached the top 10 almost 2 decades ago with Walking Away a Winner, she has continually produced high quality music that has become more engaging with each release.
"Calling Me Home" picks up fairly close to where 2008's outstanding "Coal" left off. The Cross Lanes, West Va. native continues to mine the ...
This could have been just one more example of a contemporary country artist tapping into the traditional country vein, a career tactic that has been explored nearly to the point of revulsion in the post-"O Brother, Where Art Thou" world. But Kathy Mattea would have none of that.
Mattea, who calls herself a "child of coal" in the album's liner notes, really has a feel for these mining songs, having grown up in West Virginia where the mines were a way of life - and death ...
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