Features
Tuesday, December 9 2008
In Praise of Older Women: The Best Records of 2008 by Women 45 Years Old and Over
The old music-industry adage is that if a woman doesn't have a hit by the time she's 22 years old, she should probably look for another career. That's obviously a load of blarney.
Columns
Monday, February 9 2009
Working in the Coal Mine and Singing About It, Too
The majority of us aren't coal miners, we don't know coal miners, and we wouldn't last a week in a coal mine. Are coal mining songs, then, still relevant?
Reviews
Thursday, April 3 2008
Kathy Mattea: Coal
Mattea may claim to have coal mining in her blood and bleed whenever a mountaintop is sheared for ore, but that doesn’t really matter. What matters is the music, and the music is terrific.
Friday, September 30 2005
Kathy Mattea: Right Out of Nowhere
She doesn't want to set the world on fire, because it's already burning. Who could blame her for wanting to extinguish the flames?"
