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Mountaintop: Coal Mine Wars in West Virginia

Keeping Mine Wars history alive with a free and fun educational multimedia experience for all ages

Coal Mining and Labor Music

Dark as a Dungeon (Dolly Parton)

Billy Edd Wheeler ~ Red Wing Blackbird

Shirley Stewart Burns -- Ode to a Miner (song for my father)

Black Water

Coal Black Miner Blues---(ORIGINAL) /by NIMROD WORKMAN

Florence Reece segment from Harlan County, USA

Hazel Dickens - Fire in the hole

Hazel Dickens Performs "Black Lung"

John Prine - Paradise 

Rich Man's Coal

U. Utah Phillips explains Miner's Lullaby with bluegrass duo Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin performance

Don't Come Out of the Hole

Foddershock - "Dyin' To Make A Livin' "

Coal Miner's Blues

Harlan Man

The Mountain

Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia

High Flying Bird

Coal Tattoo by Billy Ed Wheeler

Tennessee Ernie Ford Sings 16 Tons

Charles Wesley Godwin - "Coal Country" Official Video

Which Side Are You On: Florence Reece and Natalie Merchant

ZZ Top - Sixteen Tons feat. Jeff Beck (Official Music Video)

Mountaintop Feat. Brandi Hart and Tomasia

John Henry (Featuring Soul Khan & Dan Whitener) by Gangstagrass

Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter

Gangstagrass - Big Branch feat. Tomasia

Logan Halstead Dark Black Coal

Kathy Mattea - West Virginia Mine Disaster

Coal by Tyler Childers

Patty Loveless "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive"

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Mini Thin - Coal Miners Lullaby Country rap hick hop redneck remix West Virginia