Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields

Various Artists

Full Lights / Condon

A 2 CD set. Some of the photos in the CD booklet are courtesy of John Cohen.

Tracks / musicians

• Down in a Coal Mine Excerpt - The 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
• 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 in Heaven - Rev. 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