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2 unusual facts about Kathy Mattea


Kathy Mattea

Mattea was born in South Charleston, West Virginia, because it had the nearest hospital to her parents' home in Cross Lanes, where she grew up, graduating from nearby Nitro High School.

Also through the '90s, she often collaborated with Scottish folksinger songwriter Dougie MacLean.


Brightest and Best

It has been recorded by a number of artists, including Glen Campbell, Joanne Hogg and Kathy Mattea (on her album Good News).

Come from the Heart

It is most known through the 1989 single by Kathy Mattea, released in conjunction with her album Willow in the Wind, though the song was first recorded and released on the 1987 Don Williams album Traces and also released in 1988 by Clark's husband on his album Old Friends.

He Thinks He'll Keep Her

The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, and was accompanied by a live performance music video, taken from the 1993 CBS special Women of Country, where Carpenter was accompanied by Emmylou Harris, Kathy Mattea, Patty Loveless, Trisha Yearwood, Suzy Bogguss and Pam Tillis.

Larry Boone

Boone has also co-written several singles for other country music artists, including a Number One single for Kathy Mattea, and Top Ten hits for Don Williams, Tracy Lawrence, Rick Trevino and Lonestar.

Robert Bowlin

In the 1980s, Bowlin was a sideman to artists like Maura O'Connell and Kathy Mattea, the latter whom he appeared with on the popular television program, "Austin City Limits".

She Came from Fort Worth

"She Came from Fort Worth" is a song written by Pat Alger and Fred Koller, and recorded by American country music artist Kathy Mattea.

Slow Dancing with the Moon

Slow Dancing with the Moon is a Dolly Parton album released in February 1993 and, in addition to Parton, features a number of famous guest artists, including Collin Raye, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kathy Mattea, Tanya Tucker, Maura O'Connell, Billy Dean, Pam Tillis, Marty Stuart and Billy Ray Cyrus.

South Charleston, West Virginia

Country singer-songwriter Kathy Mattea was born in the city's Thomas Memorial Hospital to parents who lived in nearby Cross Lanes, where she grew up


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