Artist	Song
Jean Ritchie	West Virginia Mine Disaster
Sarah Gunning	Hello Coal Miner
Carter Family	Coal Miner's Blues
Texas Rubies	Blue Diamond Mine
Ramblin' Jack Elliott	Talking Miner Blues
Woody Guthrie	The Dying Miner
Hazel Dickens	Clay County Miner
Gillian Welch	Miner's Refrain
Ricky Skaggs & Keith Whitley	Dream Of A Miner's Child
Dwight Yoakam	Miner's Prayer
Steeleye Span	Blackleg Miner
Maddy Prior & June Tabor	The Old Miner
Martin Carthy	Springhill Mine Disaster
Weeping Tile	Westray
Solas	A Miner's Life
Margaret Lyle Gravitt	West Virginia Mine Disaster
Nanci Griffith	Heart Of A Miner
Loretta Lynne	Coal Miner's Daughter
Bee Gees	New York Mining Disaster 1941

Comment:

The recent terrible mining tragedies in the United States and Mexico led me to put together this tribute to miners, who continue to be mistreated and placed in harm's way for the sake of corporate profit. The Jean Ritchie song (also covered by Margaret Lyle Gravitt on this CD) is remarkably beautiful and haunting. Many of the other songs are powerful as well, including Sarah Gunning's raw autobiographical song and Steeleye Span's song about scabs.

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