Where is kathy mattea today

I was on the show at the NPR convention when they went to try to get stations to go national and have come back always. So it's family to me. She embodies the best of West Virginia the same way Mountain Stage does, and that's how we knew she'd be the perfect person for this job.

Mattea grew up in the small town of Cross Lanes, not far from Charleston and attended West Virginia University in Morgantown where she developed as a folk, bluegrass and country singer before moving to Nashville to launch her country music career.

She enjoyed four Billboard No. She won four CMA Awards between and Play It Forward Video. Many artists came together and created the song, Play It Forward, which is fundraising on behalf of Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee to support their mission of feeding hungry people and working to solve hunger issues in our community.

This means Second Harvest must purchase an additional , pounds of food each week to feed our Middle Tennessee neighbors. I thought it was time for me to get to know that song then. Through that season, through some mutual friends, I wound up being in the company of Mary a bunch. We sort of developed a little friendship. When things started to unravel culturally, I found myself listening to the song all the time. It just happens to have the same faces as the first and the second marriages.

I mean, it has died and resurrected several times. See Also. Newswire Powered by. Close the menu. Rolling Stone. Log In. To help keep your account secure, please log-in again. You are no longer onsite at your organization. Please log in. For assistance, contact your corporate administrator.

Perhaps it's because I had both parents spend years in a nursing home, or maybe it's just one of those songs that reaches across boundaries and into hearts. Well, Kathy is still recording and in fact, recently released a new album Pretty Bird. And while Kathy along with virtually every other artist had to postpone a bunch of shows in due to the Coronavirus, she has several shows scheduled in that you can catch up on right here.