Born and raised in West Virginia, Kathy Mattea’s deep connection to her home state and its rich history has fueled her musical vision in recent years. Nominated for a Grammy in the Traditional Folk category for her socially-conscious 2008 album, Coal, Kathy is now set to release her 16th studio album, Calling Me Home, on [...] Read More
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Kathy Mattea will release her new album, Calling Me Home, on September 11. The project dives deep into her Appalachian heritage with producer Gary Paczosa. The liner notes were pinned by best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver. “I feel like I just made the album of my life,” Kathy said. “I articulated something I was put here [...] Read More Garth Brooks turned 50 on Tuesday, but it wasn’t his milestone birthday he and a small group of famous friends and family celebrated on Music Row. Garth helped surprise his longtime producer Allen Reynolds by renaming a recording studio in his honor, reports The Tennessean. Formerly known as Jack’s Tracks, the studio in which Reynolds [...] Read More Some 20 years ago, Garth Brooks had the No. 1 country album in the nation with No Fences, which would go on to sell 17 million copies and win Album of the Year from both the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music. The opening song on that CD was “The Thunder Rolls,” which Garth performed Sunday for a select crowd of music-industry insiders when his co-writer, Pat Alger, was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. “I can’t imagine my career without this song,” Garth said. Then he looked directly at Pat’s table and added, “I can’t imagine my career without you, Pat.” Even harder to imagine is the actual writing session for “The Thunder Rolls.” When “the lightning flashes in her eyes” in the song’s lyrics, it could well be a reflection of Pat’s pent-up anger the day they composed it because — to hear Garth tell it — he’s not an easy guy to work with. Read More The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame added four new people to its rolls Sunday night. They’re four people whose names are more likely to be in parentheses in an album’s liner notes than on a marquee. But without writers such as Paul Davis, Pat Alger, Steve Cropper and Stephen Foster to come up with the words and the melodies, many of the folks with a microphone in their hands would have nothing to sing. And the artists know it. That’s why Tanya Tucker, Jimmy Wayne, T. Graham Brown and Garth Brooks were among the acts who took part in Sunday’s induction ceremony at the Nashville Renaissance Hotel. Read More |
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