Coal (Kathy Mattea album)

Coal
Studio album by Kathy Mattea
Released	April 1, 2008 (2008-04-01)
Studio	Cave 2 House of David Puremusic The Playground
Genre	Country bluegrass
Length	43:15
Label	Captain Potato Thirty Tigers
Producer	Marty Stuart
Kathy Mattea chronology
Right Out of Nowhere (2005) Coal (2008) Calling Me Home (2012)

Coal is an album by American country artist Kathy Mattea. It was released on April 1, 2008 via Captain Potato Records and Thirty Tigers. The album consisted of 11 tracks, all of which were stemmed from themes of coal mining in the Appalachian region of the United States. A majority of the album's material were covers of songs previously recorded by other singer-songwriters such as Hazel Dickens and Jean Ritchie. Coal received several positive reviews from critics at the time of its release. It was also Mattea's first album to top the American bluegrass chart and was nominated by the Grammy Awards.