Kathy Mattea singing the title song of her album "Calling Me Home". Backup includes Tim & Mollie O'Brien, Patty Loveless, Tim Eriksen, Alison Krauss, and Emmylou Harris among others. Enjoy...
"Stories about coal, mountains, wildlife, home, and the Creator. About proud, independent Mountaineers who understand a way of life that’s inseparable from the land and its resources. And a voice that aches with empathy for the green rolling hills and cool clear streams that have suffered unforgivable insult over the years. Kathy Mattea gets it. No surprise there… she’s a Mountaineer too.
Even the liner notes shine. Respected Kentucky author Barbara Kingsolver penned an essay that fits the music like a glove. Here’s an excerpt.
This highway’s a ribbon of lonesome. It’s a far cry from here to Virginia. I miss my friends of yesterday, and oh, how I long to feel the spell of the wood thrush’s song. I miss what these mountains must have been before we cut open their veins – The Garden of the Lord, in Jean Ritchie’s mighty words – and the clear streams that heaved and sighed on their flanks before the black waters ran down."
-No Depression