Kathy Mattea
Kathy Mattea
Kathleen Alice "Kathy" Matteais an American country music and bluegrass performer who often brings folk, Celtic, and traditional country sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a recording artist, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. This total includes the number one hits "Goin' Gone", "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses", "Come From the Heart", and "Burnin' Old Memories", as well as twelve additional Top...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth21 June 1959
CitySouth Charleston, WV
CountryUnited States of America
Tonight I feel like all of creation is asking us to dance.
Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.
Dance like nobody's watching ...
I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.
I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that.
Sally Barris has a voice like sparkling crystal. You could have knocked me over with a feather the first time I heard her. Her writing is from a deep, yet innocent, place and her point of view is just a bit off center. I am excited for her, she is standing at the beginning of her journey in this town, with all of it ahead of her. It reminds me of the first time I heard Beth Nielson-Chapman or Nanci Griffith. It's going to be fun to watch.
So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone.
You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out.
And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.
Love travels the miles upon the wings of Angels.