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Thread #118794   Message #2573721
Posted By: bald headed step child
23-Feb-09 - 10:09 AM
Thread Name: Coal Mine Songs
Subject: RE: Coal Mine Songs
The CD "Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways" contains a song by The Phipps Family called The Red Jacket Mine Explosion.

It's set to the tune of Red River Valley.

45 miners killed at Keen Mountain, Va April 22, 1938.

Powerful song.

BHSC