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Track Listing
1. L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore, The
2. Blue Diamond Mines
3. Red-Winged Blackbird
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/Coal
| Details | | Producer: | Marty Stuart | | Distributor: | RED Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
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; The Payground, Nashville,TN; House Of David Recording Studio, Nashville, TN; Pure Music, 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.
Industry Reviews
[Her voice] is careful and carefully modulated....[I]t is a complicated conversation, one she seeks gently to engage all of us in.
Mattea's voice -- full, soulful and without twang -- adds welcome power to the minimalist production...
Mattea's voice grabs an open vowel an soars along like a hawk on air currents, making tiny midair adjustments to prolong the ride.
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