Week of February 18, 2008
February 18, 2008 - On April 1st, Kathy Mattea will release her 17th album, Coal a collection of songs paying tribute to her West Virginia family heritage in the region's coal mining culture.
The tragic Sago Mine disaster in 2006, which killed twelve miners brought back memories of the Farmington Mine disaster of 1968 near Fairmont, WV - an event that still haunts Mattea, whose grandfathers were miners and mother worked for the union. "When Sago happened, I got catapulted back to that moment in my life and thought, 'I need to do something with this emotion, and maybe this album is the place to channel it.' I knew the time was right."
Marty Stuart will not only produce the album, but play mandolin and guitar and duet with guest background vocalist Patty Loveless on the track, "Blue Diamond Mines."
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