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Rev. Joe Freeman
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Women Miners
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MUSIC OF COAL
Music of Coal!
Visit The Music of Coal Website!
The Music
of Coal Band
Members
standing left to right are:
Rick Saenz, Ron Short, Molly Slemp,
and Chris Saenz.
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Two years in the making, this pair of audio CDs contain songs addressing various aspects of coal mining history culture, including black lung, union organizing, environmental impacts and the contribution of coal to the national exonomy. The CDs are accompanied by a rich detailed book of liner notes with striking historical photographs.
"This has been a collaborative effort involving many people in the Wise County area as well as noted experts across the country," said Paul Kuczko, director of the Lonesome Pine Office on Youth and executive producer of the CD project. "We've assembled more than two hours of music that truly gives the flavor of coal mining heritage."
According to Jack Wright, who produced the CDs and wrote the liner notes, this musical collection is a "hybrid of old and new songs" some previously recorded, others produced specifically for this project. "We shose some songs that came previously on independent labels and may not have been well know, but are telling original stories from the heart of the coalfields," Wright said. "In addition we have well established artists represented here, like Ralph Stanley, Dwight Yoakum, Natalie Merchant, Tom T. Hall, Blue Highway and the Carter Family."
VOLUME ONE
1. Down in a Coal Mine (Excerpt) 1:25
The Edison
Concert Band
2.
Mining Camp Blues 2:59
Trixie Smith
3.
Sprinkle Coal Dust on My Grave 2:46
Orville
Jenks
4.
Coal Miner's Blues 3:04
The
Carter Family
5.
Hard Times in Coleman's Mine 2:36
Aunt Molly
Jackson
6.
He's Only a Miner Killed in the Ground
2:35
Ted
Chestnut
7.
Coal Black Mining Blues 2:52
Nimrod
Workman
8.
'31 Depression Blues 2:52
Ed Sturgill
9. Prayer of a Miner's Child 1:51
Dock Boggs
10.
That Twenty-Five Cents You Paid 2:25
Sarah Ogan
Gunning
11.
The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore
3:10
Jean
Ritchie
12.
Dark as a Dungeon 1:55
Merle
Travis
13.
Come All You Coal Miners 2:21
The Reel
World String Band
14.
My Sweetheart's the Mule in the Mines
0:22
Mike Kline
15.
Thirty Inch Coal 2:35
Hobo Jack
Adkins
16.
Black Waters 3:38
Jim
Ringer
17.
Roof Boltin' Daddy 2:26
Gene
Carpenter
18.
Dream of a Miner's Child 2:46
Carter
Stanley
19.
Coal Miner's Boogie 2:57
George
Davis
20.
The Yablonski Murder 3:00
Hazel
Dickens
21.
What Are We Gonna Do? 3:01
Dorothy
Myles
22.
Explosion at Derby Mine 4:02
Charlie
Maggard
23.
Blind Fiddler 3:05
Jim
"Bud" Stanley
24.
Loadin' Coal 2:29
John
Hutchinson
25:
Coal Town Saturday Night 3:06
Randall
Hylton
26.
It's Been a Long Time 3:15
Sonny
Houston & Roger Hall
27:
Fountain Filled with Blood 3:56
Elder
James Caudill & Choir
VOLUME TWO
1.
West Virginia Mine Disaster 2:48
Molly Slemp
2.
Union Man 3:36
Blue
Highway
3.
Blue Diamond Mines 4:26
Robin
& Linda Williams
4.
Set Yourself Free :50
Billy Gene
Mullins
5.
Redneck War 5:22
Ron Short
6.
Sixteen Tons 2:32
Ned Beatty
7.
There will be No Black Lung
(Up in Heaven) 2:05
Rev. Joe Freeman
8.
Deep Mine Blues 3:45
Nick Stump
9.
I'm a Coal Mining Man 2:22
Tom
T. Hall
10.
Dirty Black Coal 4:27
Kenneth
Davis
11.
Black Lung
A. J. Roach
12.
Coal Dust Kisses 4:06
Suzanne Mumpower-Johnson
13.
Coal Tattoo 4:06
Dale
Jett
14.
A Strip Miner's Life 3:00
Don
Stanley & Middle Creek
15.
Daddy's Dinner Bucket
Ralph
Stanley II
16.
In Those Mines 3:43
Valerie
Smith
17.
Miner's Prayer 3:14
Ralph
Stanley & Dwight Yoakam
18.
Dyin' To Make a Livin' 3:47
W.
V. Hill
19.
You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive 6:06
Darrell
Scott
20.
They Can't Put it Back 2:31
Jack
Wright
21.
Which Side Are You On? 5:04
Natalie
Merchant
