New Music Minute - Kathy Mattea
Grammy Award winning Kathy Mattea's latest recording, COAL, is more than just mining songs. Mattea says she wanted to pay tribute to "my place and my people". Raised near Charleston, West Virginia, her mining heritage is thick: both her parents grew up in coal camps, both her grandfathers were miners, her mother worked for the local UMWA. "It's a coming together of a lot of different threads of her life. The album was just a sketch of an idea until the Sago Mine Disaster, which killed twelve West Virginia miners. 'Now is the time to do these songs' Mattea says. For More Information goto: http://www.BN.com/newmusicminu...
Channel: Music
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: fastfocustv
Length: 04:10
Rating: 4.40
Views: 13151
Tags: blues Coal country fast fastfocustv focus folk Kathy Mattea miners mining music virginia West
Video Comments |
w9gar (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Beautiful lady, great voice. Thanks from an x-coalminer of 27 years and a proud UMWA member. God bless all coalminers.
booboobearcubby (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
She's still around?
MartaSalomea (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
cool xD
aMANhuWANanElec0aXE (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
not bad...... | |
