The Edge of Americana / Time Again Radio presents:
Songs of Mines, Coal, Mining Disasters, and Bigwigs, all for West Bygod and the hope that they tell Don Blankenship just where to stick it.
Enjoy!
JB
George Davis, “Little Lump of Coal”
from When Kentucky Had No Union Men
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 1967
Pete Steele, “Coal Creek March”
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 1958
Jean Ritchie, “The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore”
from Music of Coal: Mining Songs From The Appalachian Coalfields
Lonesome Pine - 2007
The Reel World String Band, “Come All You Coal Miners”
from Music of Coal: Mining Songs From The Appalachian Coalfields
Lonesome Pine - 2007
Clark Kessinger, “Poca River Blues”
from Clark Kessinger Live At Union Grove
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records - 1976
John Haywood, “Old Coal Mine”
from Haywood Banjo Volume 3 With Ponty's Camper & Rats On The Railroad
self-released - 2007
Blind Alfred Reed, “Explosion in the Fairmount Mine”
from People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938
Dust To Digital - 2007
Hazel Dickens & The Southern Mountain Boys, “West Virginia My Home”
from July 31, 1977 National Folk Festival - Wolf Trap, VA
self-released - 1977
Trevor & Travis Stuart, “Hog And Sheep Going To The Pasture”
from Pretty Little Widow
Yodel-Ay-Hee - 1997
Jim & Jesse, “Stony Mountain, W. Va. (feat. The Virginia Boys)”
from In the Tradition (feat. The Virginia Boys)
Rounder Records - 1987
The Bing Brothers Band, “Whistling Rufus (Live)”
from Live from Pocahontas County West Virginia (feat. Jake Krack)
Bing Brothers Music - 2012
Sherman Lawson, “Hell Amongst the Yearlings”
from June 8, 1964 Switzer, WV - Mike Seeger Recordings
None - 1964
Dwight Yoakam, “Miner's Prayer”
from Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. (Expanded Version)
Rhino/Warner Bros. - 2006
Cap, Andy & Flip, “McBeth Mine Explosion”
from People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938
Dust To Digital - 2007
Ellis & Bill (The Green Mountain Boys), “My Little Home in West Virginia”
from The Domestic Front
2004
Molly Slemp, “West VA Mine Disaster”
from Music of Coal: Mining Songs From The Appalachian Coalfields
Lonesome Pine - 2007
Edden Hammons, “Let's Hunt the Horses”
from Edden Hammons Collection (Disc 2)
West Virginia University Press Sound Archives - 2000
Lefty Miller and the Rhythm Kings, “Acorn Hill Breakdown”
from West Virginia Country Fiddling
self-released
Rev. R.C. Crenshaw & Greater Harvest M.B. Church congregation, “Steal Away / Didn't Hear Nobody Pray”
from Root Hog Or Die 100 Years, 100 Songs - An Alan Lomax Centennial Tribute
Mississippi - 2016
Harry Reser, “He's a Big Man from the South”
from Harry Reser's Six Jumping Jacks, 1926-1930
Retrieval
joshbearman The Edge of Americana / Time Again Radio May 8th, 2018
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