Kathy Mattea is the debut album by American

United States

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 country singer Kathy Mattea

Kathy Mattea

Kathleen Alice "Kathy" Mattea is an American country music and bluegrass performer who often brings folk, Celtic and traditional country sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a recording artist, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot...

. It was released in 1984 (see 1984 in country music

1984 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1984.-Events:* June 22 — The movie Rhinestone, starring Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone, is released to universally negative reviews...

) on Mercury Records

Mercury Records

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. It includes the singles "Street Talk", "Someone Is Falling in Love", "You've Got a Soft Place to Fall", and "That's Easy for You to Say". The song "(Back to the) Heartbreak Kid" was later released in 1986 by Restless Heart

Restless Heart

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 from their self-titled debut album.

Track listing

1. "Street Talk" – 2:44 (Lee Domann, Ralph Whiteway)
2. "Someone Is Falling in Love" – 3:05 (Lee Domann, Pebe Sebert)
3. "You've Got a Soft Place to Fall" - 3:02 (K. Chater, Bob McDill
   Bob McDill
   Robert Lee "Bob" McDill is an American country music songwriter. Active from the 1960s until 2000, he has written several songs for country music artists, including more than thirty Number One hits...
   
   , H. Moore)
4. "Takin' the Givin' Away" – 3:15 (Bob DiPiero
   Bob DiPiero
   Bob DiPiero is an American country music songwriter. He has written 15. U.S. Number 1 hits and countless top 20 hits for the likes of Tim McGraw, The Oak Ridge Boys, Reba McEntire, Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Shenandoah, Neal McCoy, Highway 101, Restless Heart, Ricochet, John Anderson, Montgomery...
   
   , J. Wood)
5. "You Know That I Do (And I Know That You Won't)" – 3:02 (Pete McCann)
6. "Full Time Love" – 2:56 (Bob DiPiero, Tim Krekel
   Tim Krekel
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   )
7. "Somewhere Down the Road" – 3:38 (Tom Snow, Cynthia Weil
   Cynthia Weil
   Cynthia Weil is a prominent American songwriter. She is famous for having written many songs together with her husband Barry Mann....
   
   )
8. "That's Easy for You to Say" – 3:09 (B. Clifford, D. Hodges)
9. "(Back to The) Heartbreak Kid
   (Back to the) Heartbreak Kid
   " Heartbreak Kid" is a single by American country music group Restless Heart. Released in 1985, it was the third single from the album Restless Heart...
   
   " (Van Stephenson
   Van Stephenson
   Van Wesley Stephenson was an American singer-songwriter. He scored two US Billboard Hot 100 hits in the 1980s as a solo artist, and later became tenor vocalist in the country music band BlackHawk in the 1990s. In addition, Van co-wrote several singles for other artists, such as Restless Heart...
   
   , Tim DuBois
   Tim DuBois
   Tim DuBois is a Nashville-based music executive. He attended Oklahoma State University and received a B.A. and M.A. in Accounting. He then entered into the music business and has taken part in multiple aspects of the industry including songwriting, record labels, management, and production...
   
   ) - 3:09
10. "God Ain't No Stained Glass Window" – 3:38 (Mark Germino)

Personnel

• Kathy Mattea – vocals, guitar, background vocals
• Mark Casstevens – guitar
• Gregg Galbraith – guitar
• Jon Goin – guitar
• Chris Leuzinger – guitar
• Dale Sellers – guitar
• Sonny Garrish – pedal steel guitar
• David Briggs
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   – piano
• Bobby Wood – piano
• Spady Brannan – bass
• Alan Rush – bass
• Gene Chrisman – drums
• Tommy Wells – drums
• Curtis Young – background vocals
• Wade McCurdy – background vocals
• Pat McManus – background vocals
• Marcy Cates – background vocals
• Margie Cates – background vocals
• Nashville String Machine
  Nashville String Machine
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   – strings; arranged by D. Bergen White

Production notes

• Produced by Rick Peoples, Byron Hill
  Byron Hill
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• Engineered by Mike Poston, Joe Scaife, George W. Clinton, Jim Cotton
• Mastered by Tom Coyne

Chart performance

Chart (1984)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	42

External links

• [ Kathy Mattea] at Allmusic