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This Love Will Carry

from Pretty Bird by Kathy Mattea

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    Hailed by The Washington Post as “one of Nashville's finest song interpreters,”
    Kathy Mattea has enjoyed the kind of success many artists only dream of: two
    GRAMMY wins, four CMA Awards, four #1 country singles, and five gold albums
    (plus a platinum collection of her greatest hits). The dream almost ended,
    though, when Mattea entered her 50s and began to find her voice changing.
    What followed was a three year journey through life challenges and vocal
    glitches that she describes as her “dark night of the soul,” a trying time of
    personal anguish and professional uncertainty that threatened to silence her
    permanently.
    “The hardest thing was facing the question of whether I would still be able to
    sing well enough to enjoy it. That was the acid test for me, and I had to be
    willing to walk through a process that bumped me up against the very real
    possibility that, in the end, the answer might be “No.”
    Instead, Mattea dug in with a vocal coach, re-committed to her music, and
    emerged with the most poignant album of her career, “Pretty Bird.” Working
    with her old friend, music roots wizard Tim O’Brien, producing, “Pretty Bird” is
    a chronicle of her journey, song by song, back to singing for the sheer joy of it.
    It’s an emotional, moving collection, one that draws its strength not only from
    Mattea’s touching performances, but also from her uncanny ability to weave
    seemingly disparate material into a cohesive whole. From a playful take on
    Oliver Wood’s “Chocolate On My Tongue” to a tender rendition of Mary
    Gauthier’s “Mercy Now,” from a British traditional to a Bobbie Gentry classic,
    these are the songs that helped Mattea reclaim her voice, and she inhabits
    each as fully as if it were her own.
    Exquisitely arranged and delivered with the kind of subtlety and nuance that
    can only come from a lifetime of heartbreak and triumph, ‘Pretty Bird’ is a
    title Kathy Mattea inhabits quite literally, and it’s a welcome reintroduction to
    one of country and Americana music’s most enduring and beloved figures.

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lyrics

It’s a thin line that leads us and keeps us all from shame
Dark clouds quickly gather along the way we came
There's fear out on the mountain and death out on the plain
There's heartbreak and heartache in the shadow of the flame

CHORUS
This love will carry
This love will carry me
I know this love will carry me

The strongest web will tangle, the sweetest bloom will fall
And somewhere in the distance we try and catch it all
Success lasts for a moment and failure's always near
You look down at your blistered hands as turns another year

CHORUS
This love will carry
This love will carry me
I know this love will carry me
This love will carry
This love will carry me
I know this love will carry me

So these days are golden, they must not waste away
Time is like that flower and soon it will decay
And though by storms we're weakened, and uncertainty is sure
Like the coming of the dawn it's ours for evermore

CHORUS
This love will carry
This love will carry me
I know this love will carry me
This love will carry
This love will carry me
I know this love will carry me
This love will carry
This love will carry me
I know this love will carry me

credits

from Pretty Bird, released September 7, 2018
THIS LOVE WILL CARRY
(Dougie MacLean)
Limetree Arts and Music (MCPS and PRS UK)

Jim Brock: Drums
Victor Krauss: Bass
Bill Cooley: Acoustic Guitar
Kathy: Acoustic Guitar, backing vocal
Tim O’Brien: Bouzouki
Jennifer Kummer: French Horn
Carl Marsh: Horn Arrangement
Dougie MacLean: Harmony Vocal

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Kathy Mattea Nashville, Tennessee

Twice named Female Vocalist of the Year by the Country Music Association, Kathy Mattea is among the most successful women in the genre’s history, yet her creative spirit has led her to explore musical territory well beyond its confines. Her recent recordings have intertwined Celtic, gospel, and bluegrass influences with the folk and acoustic music that have served as her artistic anchor. ... more

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