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Kathy Mattea's COAL - In Stores Now

Kathy Mattea's New Release Now Available Everywhere!
See what the critics are saying about COAL:

"The album climaxes with Mattea's take on Hazel Dickens's classic protest song, "Black Lung." Dickens sang it in a high, lonesome twang that was as unpolished as it was eerily powerful."
-Washington Post 

"Mattea offers so many lessons here, from the wisdom found in the songs she chooses to sing to the way she eschews vocal acrobatics and aims straight for the center of her own unique art. She finds beauty and despair in the dusty coal, and winds up with something as sad and pretty as anything we could hope to hear." 4 stars from The Tennessean 

"Coal is a heartfelt examination of the hard, often dangerous life of coal miners, and includes classic mining songs by the likes of Merle Travis, Hazel Dickens, and Jean Ritchie all arranged in a delicate, muted acoustic style by Mattea and her producer this time out, Marty Stuart."
-All Music 

"This is not the high gloss, higher dollar mainstream country maven who's won the CMA Female Vocalist of the Year twice, but rather a woman raised in the hills of West Virginia paying homage to the ghosts of where she's from."
-Harpmagazine.com 

"It's reassuring to now and then see a singer exhibit a social conscience. Kathy Mattea does so masterfully with her upcoming CD Coal."
-CMT.com 

"Kathy Mattea always brought a sense of integrity to her years of country music stardom, partly due to her grounding in folk music. She's continued to maintain a strong following and a steady career for the same reason. Now she's set to release the most overtly folk album of her career-and one of her best."
-Nashville Scene

Catch Kathy On Tour

DATE - CITY - VENUE 

APRIL 
04/03 Annapolis, MD Ramshead Onstage 
04/06 Philadelphia, PA Tin Angel 
04/08 Cambridge, MA Club Passim 
04/18 St. Louis, MO Sheldon Concert Hall 
04/19 Chicago, IL Old Town School of Folk Music 
04/20 Ann Arbor, MI The Ark 
04/20 Lexington, KY Woodsongs Radio Hour - Kentucky Theatre 

MAY 
05/08 Birmingham, AL WorkPlay Theatre 
05/09 Glasgow, KY Plaza Theatre 
05/10 Mansfield, OH Renaissance Theatre 
05/15 (KM only) Richardson, TX Songwriter School @ Wildflower Festival 
05/16 (KM only) Richardson, TX Songwriter School @ Wildflower Festival 

JUNE 
06/06 Kerrville, TX Kerrville Folk Festival 
06/07 Alto, NM Spencer Theatre 
06/14 Whitesburg, KY Seedtime on the Cumberland 

JULY 
07/12 Freeport, ME LL Bean Concert Series 
07/13 Stowe, VT Trapp Family Lodge 
07/17 Morristown, NJ Community Theater 
07/18 Woodstock, VA Shenandoah Valley Music Festival 

AUGUST 
08/02 Albuquerque, NM Rio Grande Zoo/Botanic Garden 
08/09 Lakeside, OH Hoover Auditorium 

For the latest updates on Kathy visit www.mattea.com.