Kathy Mattea : Coal

You want to know what it's like in the coal mines? I mean, know exactly? Listen to this album. Kathy Mattea and Marty Stuart made an absolutely beautiful album. Simply perfect!
- Charlie Tucker, 06/06/2008, USA

Full title is: Coal

Grammy-award winning singer Kathy Mattea's 17th album, Coal, a collection of songs paying tribute to her West Virginian family heritage in the region's coal mining culture. Coal was produced by Country singer/songwriter/performer Marty Stuart. West Virginian Kathy Mattea is a Folk and Bluegrass influenced artist who fit most comfortably into the Country charts of the '80s, which at the time were welcoming artists with stripped-down sounds and progressive bents. Mattea's warm, rich alto voice, applied to some of the finest songs written in Nashville at that time, brought her great success from 1986 to the early '90s.