Harlan County USA : songs of the coal miner's struggle.

Format:

Sound recording

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coal mines and mining--Appalachian Region--Songs and music.

Coal mines and mining.

Coal miners--Appalachian Region--Songs and music.

Coal miners.

Protest songs--Appalachian Region.

Protest songs.

Folk songs, English--Appalachian Region.

Folk songs, English.

Appalachian Region.

Genre:

Songs and music.

Sound recordings.

Songs.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Rounder, [2006]

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

stereo

digital recording

Contents:

Coal tattoo (Hazel Dickens)

Shut up in the mines of Coal Creek (Old Home String Band featuring Tracy Schwarz)

Come all you coal miners (Sarah Ogan Gunning)

Blue Diamond Mines (Johnson Mountain Boys)

The Yablonski murder (Hazel Dickens)

Last train from Poor Valley (Norman Blake)

Black lung (Hazel Dickens)

Dark as a dungeon (Merle Travis)

Trouble among the yearlings (Country Cooking)

Lawrence Jones (Phyllis Boyens)

Coal black mining blues (Nimrod Workman)

Coal miner's grave (Hazel Dickens)

The death of Harry Simms (Jim Garland)

Mannington mine disaster (Hazel Dickens)

Cruel Willie (Connie & Babe featuring Red Roberts)

Hard working miner (Sarah Ogan Gunning)

Dream of a miner's child (Phyllis Boyens)

And am I born to die (Doc Watson)

Clay County miner (Hazel Dickens)

One morning in May (J.P. Fraley)

Which side are you on? (Florence Reece)

They'll never keep us down (Hazel Dickens).

Participant:

Various performers.

Notes:

"Songs featured in Barbara Kopple's inspiring, Academy Award-winning film Harlan County, USA, along with additional material"--Container.

Compact disc.

OCLC:

70273986

Publisher Number:

011661402621

11661-4026-2 Rounder