Music of coal [sound recording] : mining songs from the Appalachian coalfields
- Published
- Big Stone Gap, Va. : Lonesome Records & Publishing, [2007]
- Copyright Date
- ℗2007
- Physical Description
- 2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (vi, 69 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm).
- Contents
- disc 1. Down in a coal mine (Edison Concert Band) -- Mining camp blues (Trixie Smith) -- Sprinkle coal dust on my grave (Orville Jenks) -- Coal miner's blues (The Carter Family) -- Hard times in Coleman's mine (Aunt Molly Jackson) -- He's only a miner killed in the ground (Ted Chestnut) -- Coal black mining blues (Nimrod Workman) -- '31 depression blues (Ed Sturgill) -- Prayer of a miner's child (Dock Boggs) -- That twenty-five cents you paid (Sarah Ogan Gunning) -- The L & N don't stop here anymore (Jean Ritchie) -- Dark as a dungeon (Merle Travis) -- Come all you coal miners (The Reel World String Band) -- My sweetheart's the mule in the mines (Mike Kline) -- Thirty inch coal (Hobo Jack Adkins) -- Black waters (Jim Ringer) -- Roof boltin' daddy (Gene Carpenter) -- Dream of a miner's child (Carter Stanley) -- Coal miner's boogie (George Davis) -- The Yablonski murder (Hazel Dickens) -- What are we gonna do? (Dorothy Myles) -- Explosion at Derby Mine (Charlie Maggard) -- Blind fiddler (Jim "Bud" Stanley) -- Loadin' coal (John Hutchison) -- Coal town Saturday night (Randall Hylton) -- It's been a long time (Sonny Houston & Roger Hall) -- Fountain filled with blood (Elder James Caudill & choir). and disc 2. West Virginia mine disaster (Molly Slemp) -- Union man (Blue Highway) -- Blue diamond mines (Robin & Linda Williams) -- Set yourself free (Billy Gene Mullins) -- Redneck war (Ron Short) -- Sixteen tons (Ned Beatty) -- There will be no black lung (up in Heaven) (Joe Freeman) -- Deep mine blues (Nick Stump) -- I'm a coal mining man (Tom T. Hall) -- Dirty black coal (Kenneth Davis) -- Black lung (A.J. Roach) -- Coal dust kisses (Suzanne Mumpower-Johnson) -- Coal tattoo (Dale Jett) -- A strip miner's life (Don Stanley & Middle Creek) -- Daddy's dinner bucket (Ralph Stanley II) -- In those mines (Valerie Smith) -- Miner's prayer (Ralph Stanley & Dwight Yoakam) -- Dyin' to make a livin' (W.V. Hill) -- You'll never leave Harlan alive (Darrell Scott) -- They can't put it back (Jack Wright) -- Which side are you on? (Natalie Merchant).
- Subject(s)
- Note
- Title from book cover.
Compact discs. - Bibliography Note
- Book includes biographical notes, lyrics, and bibliography with discs inserted.
- Participant/Performer Note
- Various artists.
- Data/Place of Event
- Originally recorded 1908-2007.
- Source of Acquisition
- Earth & Mineral Sciences copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2009.
- Endowment Note
- Paterno Libraries Endowment
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