Artist: Kathy Mattea
Title: Coal
Genre: Folk/Folk Rock
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Track List
| 1. |
The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore |
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| 2. |
Blue Diamond Mines |
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| 3. |
Red-Winged Blackbird |
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| 4. |
Lawrence Jones |
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| 5. |
Green Rolling Hills |
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| 6. |
Coal Tattoo |
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| 7. |
Sally In The Garden |
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| 8. |
You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive |
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| 9. |
Dark As A Dungeon |
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| 10. |
Coming Of The Roads |
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| 11. |
Black Lung/Coal |
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Details
| Released | 2008 |
| No Of Discs | 1 |
| Label | Captain Potato Records |
Description
Outstanding release from Grammy award winning Country Music star Kathy Mattea. In Coal she returns to her mining roots with 11 songs written by the likes of Si Kahn, Utah Phillips, Jean Ritchie and Merle Travis.
Born and raised in the coalfields of West Viriginia with her family roots firmly in the mining industry, Coal is a powerful record of life spent in this difficult and dangerous industry.
The album finishes off with the classic mining song Black Lung. Always a deeply moving song, in this versions you can almost hear the generations of miners singing out through Mattea’s fine voice.
A mixture of folk and country, passionately sung and beautifully played.
