I don't know how modern the songs should be to satisfy the original poster, but Roger Bryant's "Cornish Lads" about the demise of fishing and mining in Cornwall seems to have been written in the mid-to late 1990s. Lyrics can be found here on Mudcat. thread.cfm?threadid=7694 I know of this song from the singing of the Johnson Girls who recorded it on their third CD, Fire Down Below. Information about each song on that CD is here. http://www.folk-legacy.com/store/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=370 "Cornish Lads" is third from the bottom. Also on the lyrics thread Bonnie gives some information about how she became acquainted with the song. (She posts under her Liam's Brother but uses her name at the end of her posts.)