A companion to Songs and Ballads of the Anthracite Miners , this album of mining songs, documented in 1940 by "folklorist of the coal fields" George Korson, presents the performances of bituminous (soft coal) miners, from the time before automation drastically changed the way their work was done. These songs and ballads, recorded in remote and isolated places in Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, reflect occupational folkways that date back to the early nineteenth century, both in this country and abroad. 18 tracks on this CD include: The Hard Working Miner ( G.C. Gartin ); Blue Monday ( Michael F. Barry ); Two-Cent Coal ( David Morrison ); The Young Lady Who Married a Mule Driver ( James T. Downer ); The Dying Mine Brakeman ( Orville J. Jenks ); The Coal Loading Machine ( The Evening Breezes Sextet ); Sprinkle Coal Dust on My Grave ( Orville J. Jenks); That Little Lump of Coal ( William March and Richard Lawson ); Mule Skinnin' Blues ( Joe Glancy ); Harlan County Blues ( George Davis ); Coal Diggin' Blues ( Jerrel Stanley ); Coal Loadin' Blues ( Joe Glancy ); Drill Man Blues ( George "Curley" Sizemore ); Hignite Blues ( Wesley J. Turner ); Payday at the Mine ( Charles Underwood ); This What the Union Done ( Uncle George Jones); We Done Quit ( Sam Johnson ); A Coal Miner's Goodbye ( Rev. Archie Conway)

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