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Kathy Mattea, full name Kathleen Alice Mattea (born June 21, 1959, in South Charleston, West Virginia, West Virginia), is a female country music and Bluegrass music performer who often brings Celtic music sounds to her music, particularly with her release of Love Travels, one of her most critically popular albums.

Biography She was born in South Charleston because it had the nearest hospital to her parents' home in Cross Lanes, West Virginia, where she grew up, graduating from nearby Nitro, West Virginia High School. She discovered her love of singing at Girl Scouts of the USA camp. In 1976, while attending West Virginia University, she joined the bluegrass band Pennsboro, and two years later dropped out of school to move to Nashville. She worked as a tour guide at the Country Music Hall of Fame, did backup vocal work for Bobby Goldsboro, and sang demos for several Nashville songwriters and publishers including Nashville songwriter/producer Byron Hill who brought her to the attention of Frank Jones (then head of Mercury Records), who signed her to her first record deal in 1983.

Mattea's third album, 1986's folky Walk the Way the Wind Blows, proved to be her breakthrough both critically and commercially. Her cover of Nanci Griffith's "Love at the Five and Dime" was her first major hit, reaching #3 (and in addition, earned Griffith notice as a songwriter), and the album produced three other top ten songs: "Walk the Way the Wind Blows" (#10), "You're the Power"(#5), and "Train of Memories" (#6).

Further hit songs include her first #1, "Goin' Gone"; the truck-driving song "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" (1988); "Come From the Heart" and "Burnin' Old Memories" (both #1 hits in 1989); "She Came From Fort Worth" (1990); "Lonesome Standard Time" (1992); "Walking Away a Winner" (1994); "Nobody's Gonna Rain on Our Parade" (1994); "Maybe She's Human" (1994); and "455 Rocket" (1997). "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" in late May 1988, became the first single by a solo female to spend multiple weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard country singles chart since Dolly Parton's "You're the Only One" in August 1979; both singles were on top of that chart for two weeks.

The heartrending "Where've You Been," which Mattea's husband Jon Vezner co-wrote with singer/songwriter Don Henry, reached #1 on the country chart and won her a 1990 Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal. Mattea is a repeat winner of the County Music Associations Female Vocalist of the Year, which she won on the success of "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" and "Where've You Been."

The following year, Mattea took part in Voices That Care, a multi-artist project that featured other top names in music for a one-off single to raise money for the allied troops in the Gulf War. The project included Garth Brooks, Kenny Rogers and Randy Travis. She has also been heavily involved in HIV/AIDS-related charities, beginning in the early 1990s, and is often credited with leading the country music community, commonly regarded as the last segment of the entertainment industry to address the AIDS epidemic, to finally do so. She performed with Mary Chapin Carpenter on VH1's very first Save The Music concert, which also starred Bette Midler.

Mattea won another Grammy Award in 1993 for her gospel music-oriented Christmas album, Good News. Her first single from the album, "Mary, Did You Know?," went on to be covered by Kenny Rogers with Wynonna Judd, as well as Reba McEntire.

Mattea subsequently moved to Music Corporation of America and, in 2000, released the ballad-heavy The Innocent Years, a heartfelt tribute to her ailing father. Wanting to explore her taste for Celtic folk, Mattea hopped labels to Narada Productions, for whom she debuted in 2002 with the eclectic Roses.

With her social activism and her taste for songs with introspective song lyrics, it has been often said that Mattea owes as much to the traditions of folk music as mainstream country.

Though her recent work has failed to make the country charts, Mattea continued to enjoy a strong following throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s; her albums are critically well-received, and she continues to tour and perform. She continues to have strong support from a very active fan club, whose members refer to themselves as Matteaheads.

Kathy currently travels the country presenting Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" and speaking to crowds about the importance fighting global warming and the environmental and physical devastation of coal mining.

Discography Albums

Singles {| class="wikitable"!align="center" valign="top" width="40"|Year!align="left" valign="top"|Song!align="center" valign="top"|Album!align="left" valign="top" width="40"|Hot Country Songs|-| 1983 in country music| "Street Talk"| Kathy Mattea|align="center"|25|-| 1984 in country music| "Someone Is Falling In Love"| Kathy Mattea|align="center"|26|-| 1984 in country music| "You've Got a Soft Place to Fall"| Kathy Mattea|align="center"|44|-| 1984 in country music| "That's Easy for You to Say"| Kathy Mattea|align="center"|50|-| 1985 in country music| "It's Your Reputation Talkin'"| From My Heart|align="center"|34|-| 1985 in country music| "He Won't Give In"| From My Heart|align="center"|22|-| 1985 in country music| "Heart of the Country"| From My Heart|align="center"|46|-| 1986 in country music| "Love at the Five and Dime"| Walk the Way the Wind Blows|align="center"|3|-| 1986 in country music| "Walk the Way the Wind Blows"| Walk the Way the Wind Blows|align="center"|10|-| 1987 in country music| "You're the Power"| Walk the Way the Wind Blows|align="center"|5|-| 1987 in country music| "Train of Memories"| Walk the Way the Wind Blows|align="center"|6|-| 1987 in country music| "Goin' Gone"| Untasted Honey|align="center"|1|-| 1988 in country music| "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses"| Untasted Honey|align="center"|1|-| 1988 in country music| "Untold Stories"| Untasted Honey|align="center"|4|-| 1988 in country music| "Life As We Knew It"| Untasted Honey|align="center"|4|-| 1989 in country music| "Come From The Heart"| Willow in the Wind|align="center"|1|-| 1989 in country music| "Burnin' Old Memories (With a Brand New Flame)"| Willow in the Wind|align="center"|1|-| 1989 in country music| "Where've You Been"A| Willow in the Wind|align="center"|10|-| 1990 in country music| "She Came From Fort Worth"| Willow in the Wind|align="center"|2|-| 1990 in country music| "The Battle Hymn of Love" (w/ Tim O'Brien)| A Collection of Hits|align="center"|9|-| 1990 in country music| "A Few Good Things Remain"| A Collection of Hits|align="center"|9|-| 1991 in country music| "Time Passes By"| Time Passes By|align="center"|7|-| 1991 in country music| "Whole Lotta Holes"| Time Passes By|align="center"|18|-| 1991 in country music| "Asking Us to Dance"| Time Passes By|align="center"|27|-| 1992 in country music| "Lonesome Standard Time"| Lonesome Standard Time|align="center"|11|-| 1992 in country music| "Standing Knee Deep in a River (Dying of Thirst)"| Lonesome Standard Time|align="center"|19|-| 1993 in country music| "Seeds"| Lonesome Standard Time|align="center"|50|-| 1993 in country music| "Listen to the Radio"| Lonesome Standard Time|align="center"|64|-| 1993 in country music| "Mary, Did You Know?"| Good News|align="center"|-|-| 1994 in country music| "Walking Away a Winner"| Walking Away a Winner|align="center"|3|-| 1994 in country music| "Nobody's Gonna Rain On Our Parade"| Walking Away a Winner|align="center"|13|-| 1994 in country music| "Maybe She's Human"| Walking Away a Winner|align="center"|34|-| 1995 in country music| "Clown in Your Rodeo"| Walking Away a Winner|align="center"|20|-| 1997 in country music| "455 Rocket"| Love Travels|align="center"|21|-| 1997 in country music| "Love Travels"| Love Travels|align="center"|39|-| 2000 in country music| "The Trouble with Angels"| The Innocent Years|align="center"|53|-| 2000 in country music| "BFD"| The Innocent Years|align="center"|63|-| 2006 in country music| "Live It"B| Right Out of Nowhere|align="center"||}

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Kathy Mattea, full name Kathleen Alice Mattea (born June 21, 1959, in South Charleston, West Virginia, West Virginia), is a female country music and Bluegrass music performer who often brings Celtic music sounds to her music, particularly with her release of Love Travels, one of her most critically popular albums.

Biography She was born in South Charleston because it had the nearest hospital to her parents' home in Cross Lanes, West Virginia, where she grew up, graduating from nearby Nitro, West Virginia High School. She discovered her love of singing at Girl Scouts of the USA camp. In 1976, while attending West Virginia University, she joined the bluegrass band Pennsboro, and two years later dropped out of school to move to Nashville. She worked as a tour guide at the Country Music Hall of Fame, did backup vocal work for Bobby Goldsboro, and sang demos for several Nashville songwriters and publishers including Nashville songwriter/producer Byron Hill who brought her to the attention of Frank Jones (then head of Mercury Records), who signed her to her first record deal in 1983.

Mattea's third album, 1986's folky Walk the Way the Wind Blows, proved to be her breakthrough both critically and commercially. Her cover of Nanci Griffith's "Love at the Five and Dime" was her first major hit, reaching #3 (and in addition, earned Griffith notice as a songwriter), and the album produced three other top ten songs: "Walk the Way the Wind Blows" (#10), "You're the Power"(#5), and "Train of Memories" (#6).

Further hit songs include her first #1, "Goin' Gone"; the truck-driving song "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" (1988); "Come From the Heart" and "Burnin' Old Memories" (both #1 hits in 1989); "She Came From Fort Worth" (1990); "Lonesome Standard Time" (1992); "Walking Away a Winner" (1994); "Nobody's Gonna Rain on Our Parade" (1994); "Maybe She's Human" (1994); and "455 Rocket" (1997). "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" in late May 1988, became the first single by a solo female to spend multiple weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard country singles chart since Dolly Parton's "You're the Only One" in August 1979; both singles were on top of that chart for two weeks.

The heartrending "Where've You Been," which Mattea's husband Jon Vezner co-wrote with singer/songwriter Don Henry, reached #1 on the country chart and won her a 1990 Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal. Mattea is a repeat winner of the County Music Associations Female Vocalist of the Year, which she won on the success of "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" and "Where've You Been."

The following year, Mattea took part in Voices That Care, a multi-artist project that featured other top names in music for a one-off single to raise money for the allied troops in the Gulf War. The project included Garth Brooks, Kenny Rogers and Randy Travis. She has also been heavily involved in HIV/AIDS-related charities, beginning in the early 1990s, and is often credited with leading the country music community, commonly regarded as the last segment of the entertainment industry to address the AIDS epidemic, to finally do so. She performed with Mary Chapin Carpenter on VH1's very first Save The Music concert, which also starred Bette Midler.

Mattea won another Grammy Award in 1993 for her gospel music-oriented Christmas album, Good News. Her first single from the album, "Mary, Did You Know?," went on to be covered by Kenny Rogers with Wynonna Judd, as well as Reba McEntire.

Mattea subsequently moved to Music Corporation of America and, in 2000, released the ballad-heavy The Innocent Years, a heartfelt tribute to her ailing father. Wanting to explore her taste for Celtic folk, Mattea hopped labels to Narada Productions, for whom she debuted in 2002 with the eclectic Roses.

With her social activism and her taste for songs with introspective song lyrics, it has been often said that Mattea owes as much to the traditions of folk music as mainstream country.

Though her recent work has failed to make the country charts, Mattea continued to enjoy a strong following throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s; her albums are critically well-received, and she continues to tour and perform. She continues to have strong support from a very active fan club, whose members refer to themselves as Matteaheads.

Kathy currently travels the country presenting Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" and speaking to crowds about the importance fighting global warming and the environmental and physical devastation of coal mining.

Discography Albums

Singles {| class="wikitable"!align="center" valign="top" width="40"|Year!align="left" valign="top"|Song!align="center" valign="top"|Album!align="left" valign="top" width="40"|Hot Country Songs|-| 1983 in country music| "Street Talk"| Kathy Mattea|align="center"|25|-| 1984 in country music| "Someone Is Falling In Love"| Kathy Mattea|align="center"|26|-| 1984 in country music| "You've Got a Soft Place to Fall"| Kathy Mattea|align="center"|44|-| 1984 in country music| "That's Easy for You to Say"| Kathy Mattea|align="center"|50|-| 1985 in country music| "It's Your Reputation Talkin'"| From My Heart|align="center"|34|-| 1985 in country music| "He Won't Give In"| From My Heart|align="center"|22|-| 1985 in country music| "Heart of the Country"| From My Heart|align="center"|46|-| 1986 in country music| "Love at the Five and Dime"| Walk the Way the Wind Blows|align="center"|3|-| 1986 in country music| "Walk the Way the Wind Blows"| Walk the Way the Wind Blows|align="center"|10|-| 1987 in country music| "You're the Power"| Walk the Way the Wind Blows|align="center"|5|-| 1987 in country music| "Train of Memories"| Walk the Way the Wind Blows|align="center"|6|-| 1987 in country music| "Goin' Gone"| Untasted Honey|align="center"|1|-| 1988 in country music| "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses"| Untasted Honey|align="center"|1|-| 1988 in country music| "Untold Stories"| Untasted Honey|align="center"|4|-| 1988 in country music| "Life As We Knew It"| Untasted Honey|align="center"|4|-| 1989 in country music| "Come From The Heart"| Willow in the Wind|align="center"|1|-| 1989 in country music| "Burnin' Old Memories (With a Brand New Flame)"| Willow in the Wind|align="center"|1|-| 1989 in country music| "Where've You Been"A| Willow in the Wind|align="center"|10|-| 1990 in country music| "She Came From Fort Worth"| Willow in the Wind|align="center"|2|-| 1990 in country music| "The Battle Hymn of Love" (w/ Tim O'Brien)| A Collection of Hits|align="center"|9|-| 1990 in country music| "A Few Good Things Remain"| A Collection of Hits|align="center"|9|-| 1991 in country music| "Time Passes By"| Time Passes By|align="center"|7|-| 1991 in country music| "Whole Lotta Holes"| Time Passes By|align="center"|18|-| 1991 in country music| "Asking Us to Dance"| Time Passes By|align="center"|27|-| 1992 in country music| "Lonesome Standard Time"| Lonesome Standard Time|align="center"|11|-| 1992 in country music| "Standing Knee Deep in a River (Dying of Thirst)"| Lonesome Standard Time|align="center"|19|-| 1993 in country music| "Seeds"| Lonesome Standard Time|align="center"|50|-| 1993 in country music| "Listen to the Radio"| Lonesome Standard Time|align="center"|64|-| 1993 in country music| "Mary, Did You Know?"| Good News|align="center"|-|-| 1994 in country music| "Walking Away a Winner"| Walking Away a Winner|align="center"|3|-| 1994 in country music| "Nobody's Gonna Rain On Our Parade"| Walking Away a Winner|align="center"|13|-| 1994 in country music| "Maybe She's Human"| Walking Away a Winner|align="center"|34|-| 1995 in country music| "Clown in Your Rodeo"| Walking Away a Winner|align="center"|20|-| 1997 in country music| "455 Rocket"| Love Travels|align="center"|21|-| 1997 in country music| "Love Travels"| Love Travels|align="center"|39|-| 2000 in country music| "The Trouble with Angels"| The Innocent Years|align="center"|53|-| 2000 in country music| "BFD"| The Innocent Years|align="center"|63|-| 2006 in country music| "Live It"B| Right Out of Nowhere|align="center"||}

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