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
Love travels, the miles, upon the wings of angels. Love finds you, I swear it's true, and I will love you from here.
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.
I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.
Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.
Tonight I feel like all of creation is asking us to dance.
An eye for an eye til everyone is blind.
You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.
Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.
I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball.
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
You find yourself in this place where you really get to find out what you're made of, and what I found was that when I was at my time of greatest need, there were people who appeared in my life, and helped me through it.
What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.
I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure way of touching that deeper reality beneath our life.
Anyway, our family went into complete crisis mode. I have two older brothers, and we rallied as a family.