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"A country star goes back to her roots"
West Virginia-born Kathy Mattea (muh-TAY-a) has been one of country's top-level stars over the last two decades, building bridges to Nashville's serious songwriting community with such hits as Tim O'Brien's "Untold Stories." She has "18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses" and a few other great American anthems to her name, but after the Sago mine disaster of 2006 she began to think about something new--an album of songs about her native coal country. The result was the just-released "Coal," produced by Marty Stuart. Mattea's parents both grew up in coal camps, and she was descended from a long line of coal miners on both sides. Featuring songs by such songwriters as Jean Ritchie, Billy Edd Wheeler, Hazel Dickens, Si Kahn, Utah Phillips, Merle Travis, and Darrell Scott, "Coal" is a career statement from one of country music's most committed artists.
Mad Agnes opens this evening's show.
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