“He’s had more hard luck than most men could stand/ The mines was his first love but never his friend,” opens “Black Lung,” a tune penned by West Virginia bluegrass singer Hazel Dickens in 1969. In ...
After 40 years playing blues, folk, swing, jazz, country and rock ‘n’ roll, what was left for singer/songwriter and Wilkes-Barre native Lex Romane to do? Answer – anthracite coal-themed music.Fueled ...
Beyond details gleaned from artifacts like early photographs and hand-written letters, what we know of miners’ lives during California’s Gold Rush era comes to us from mining songs — the simple, ...
Folklorist Archie Green blows the dust off old coal-mining songs, revealing the souls of long-dead miners and their struggles to survive. With his book Only a Miner, folklorist Archie Green unearths ...
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