Last week I went to see Robert Plant's new band (Band of Joy). All the band members live and work in Nashville and three of them (Buddy Miller, Patty Griffin, Darrell Scott) have had a lot of success on the fringes of the country music scene.
Take Darrell for instance....he's written some of The Dixie Chicks' biggest hits. Yet he's also been involved with the Transatlantic Sessions gang. So is he a country or folk singer songwriter?

Is 'You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive' a country or a folk song? Who knows....listening to it maybe it's a blues song even? (some say country music is white man's blues)

Bottom line is....who cares. It's just a GOOD song...and one so good that it deserves to be played and heard in even the most traditional folk clubs.

You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive