Come all you coal miners.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Paxton, Mike, performer.

Tucker, George, 1906- performer.

Workman, Nimrod, performer.

Dickens, Hazel, 1925-2011, performer.

Gunning, Sarah Ogan, 1910-1983, performer.

Garland, Jim, performer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coal miners--Songs and music.

Coal miners.

Folk songs, English--United States.

Folk songs, English.

United States.

Genre:

Songs and music.

Sound recordings.

Folk music.

Songs.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (38 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in.

12 in.

Place of Publication:

Somerville, MA : Rounder Records, [1973]

System Details:

analog

33 1/3 rpm

microgroove

mono

Contents:

Black lung (blues) (sung by George Tucker to the tune of Pretty Polly)

Black lung

Don't you want to go to that land (sung by Numrod Workman and the workshop)

Cold blooded murder

Come all you coal miners (trad. tune)

Both lungs is broke down

Thirty inch coal (sung by Tucker)

Dreadful memories (sung to the tune of Precious memories)

Clay county miner

The N&W train don't stop here no more

That 25 cents that you paid (sung by Gunning)

Mannington mine disaster.

Participant:

Folk songs; performed principally by their composers, with other artists ; George Tucker, Hazel Dickens, Nimrod Workmen, and Sarah Gunning.

Notes:

"Much of the material of this record was recorded at an Appalachian Music Workshop held at the Highlander Center, New Market, Tennessee, in October 1972."

Durations, biographical notes, and texts (8 p. : ill.) inserted in container.

Contains:

Black lung (blues)

Don't you want to go to that land.

Cold blooded murder.

Both lungs is broke down.

Thirty inch coal.

Dreadful memories.

Clay county miner.

N & W train don't stop here no more.

N and W train don't stop here no more.

That 25 cents that you paid.

That twenty-five cents that you paid.

Mannington mine disaster.

OCLC:

4296588

Publisher Number:

4005 Rounder Records