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Kathy Mattea is tagged as: country, female vocalists, singer-songwriter, female voices, female

She was born in South Charleston because it had the nearest hospital to her parents’ home in Cross Lanes, where she grew up, graduating from nearby Nitro High School. In 1976, while in college, 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); R...
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Top 10 Kathy Mattea Songs
Christmas Collage
Mary, Did You Know?
Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses
Where've You Been
455 Rocket
Walking Away A Winner
Goin' Gone
There's A New Kid In Town
BLUE DIAMOND MINES
Untold Stories
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Joy For Christmas Day
Love Travels
Coal
Walking Away A Winner
Time Passes By
Lonesome Standard Time
Willow In The Wind
Roses
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