Kathy Mattea Tours WV Coalfields
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Kathy Mattea Tours WV Coalfields
Country Music Star Kathy Mattea is flying around West Virginia Tuesday to get a closer look at Mountaintop Mining.
Reporter: Anna Baxter
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Country Music Star Kathy Mattea is flying around West Virginia Tuesday to get a closer look at Mountaintop Mining.

The Cross Lanes native boarded a plane Tuesday morning at Yeager Airport in Charleston to get an aerial tour of the coalfields near Charleston. Mattea says she wants to see for herself what's happening in her home state. The first stop is in Boone County.

A press conference is planned for 5:00pm Tuesday at the State Capitol. That's when Kathy Mattea will share her thoughts on what she got to see.

Both of Mattea's grandfathers were coal miners. Her current music project is a collection of songs about coal.

She's from cross lanes.


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Posted by: Jeff on Jul 13, 2007 at 02:48 PM

I'll bet the scene of her sobbing on the plane will be in a video. Her agent or producer is reeeeeal good. I just hope WSAZ didn't provide her with a tape of the report. She is one of those celebs that don't know anything about whatever "cause" it is they're talking about. If she would go to the areas that have been reclaimed, maybe she could name one of her songs on the new CD "Reclaim To Fame". Little does she know, WV has won national awards for the reclaimation of surface mines.
Posted by: Ron on Jul 11, 2007 at 09:16 PM

I agree with you Amanda, why doesnt Kathy Mattea disappear for another 20 some years, she wasnt concerned about WV then, and now she is?, thats a bunch of bull. I think her career is fizzing out, and she returns home looking for popularity
Posted by: Mason on Jul 11, 2007 at 08:22 PM

When was the last time Kathy Mattea was in WV?...and the tears--she's supposed to be a singer, not an actress. She's just trying to promote her new CD, personally, if she was giving them away I wouldn't take one.
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