There is a new CD of Ed Pickford singing some of his mining songs *himself*--long overdue after so many brilliant versions by others. (The most recent cover: Archie Fisher and James Keelaghan with the Barra McNeils on their recent Celtic Colours collaborative CD singing 'Strange Lover is a coal mine'.)

The CD is:

Strange Lover is a Coalmine: The Mining Songs of Ed Pickford.
On Hooky Mat records, available from Anthony Robb, sold to benefit a cancer charity
here here

Very powerful collection; some new songs as well as old favourites. Among the new, a great one about Mother Jones that you can hear in another version on youtube
here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3ItbZeZBE8&feature=share&list=UUOTRP6QO6CBf3avTHSZvNzw

Some of the songs here have travelled so far that they are sometimes erroneously ascribed to trad such as: Pound a Week Rise, The Worker's Song, Farewell Johnny Miner--sadly, they are as relevant and necessary today as when they were first written.