Fanfare; 41; American Odyssey: Dark as a Dungeon

you're right here to talk about to sing about that think about coal country and that's a very thriving town of beckley pennsylvania with a breaker still in the background and the coleslaw i just rings the hills here first song we're going to hear is a song that's probably one of the best known associate with coal mining and written by one of the best guitar pickers and singers of the day the fellow who wrote it

was saying sixteen tons merle travis i ouch oh yeah so the political landscape muscle and burton scandal the gun man history and practice we get another day and say the department cause i was so too ball when the son didn't share a clip at the show an award to the man's sixteen phone number and call them was also quote less muscle he voted sixteen on the get another day older and

deeper and they say we're going to call because i owe my soul to the company is those bubbles by law oh i mean you know you get another day older and they say they've got all my soul to the company as though the cd that was it do those

did they say vicky kings carl comes from coal country the question i have to ask it was a simple one the first commercial coal mining in the state's occurred about sending hundred and fifty and the people were black slaves to mine that coal with their songs and their picks shovels and most of the movies we see in most of the stories we hear about the irish mine is in a welsh mining scott's mind is where you're from coal country with many black people around your money here well after the day's work in the gold mines it was all worth it what

governor jon huntsman said it was black white and live in the video is integral not everybody work going on the last b became come up now maybe actually my guest today you couldn't ask for better representatives that are representative of the kind of music that was produced by the people who worked our coal mines we build our railroads are canals the people provided the kind of music made american music so andy drop the world back in the early days and the day one of the masters of the guitar and soul singing in the balloons baby we once enforce this one is called ask me no question about oh you know last week

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paprika chuck real chief christian welcome why do the island you know what if i may i'd like to see a little bit of routine that i think is so helpful for the day so nice to him this is not old at the track because i don't think is going to define get this together

sam always been people here figure well what one thing i think its allies when you go out of people give some anything can be done beautiful things you know so i go to lead like to sing that tried this for twenty years dressing you know like this lead them it's called the villages thank you it's been

down a lot lately bye bye again and again it's big

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food for many they became would like to sing some noises but i really like the sounds of war but if he wants to make a play we promise to get along for his sake in the sake of a larger audience than waiting for him i'm clicking clicking clicking subscribe jean ritchie comes from america's coal mining in character shallow brothers do you want to come up here but

kb i know you for that was a farmer farming in viper up in the appalachians but what about the rest of the family anybody alive now at their party in a family tree mr voisin now to american demands you see your role as one after work in the manson one of the thinner but you do wonder whether they used on the ri that day and hope it is and now there've been several disasters in the man's down in the airway and i know when that happens at the women always seemed to them just wanna go down the man opening in or the realm of fraud the man stand there and wait for news that happened recently i guess about two years ago in west virginia and i kept thinking about you know all times we we've heard about that heard the whistle blown heard though that the man there's trouble in the manson that feeling you get inside you and now so when that thing happened in west virginia at braddock that into a

song was what the lonely women who feel this one the skull did you see him going then says a man in missouri this mine in the past days on his own here was man is the caseloads in is upbeat nation is the man and the landscape jr he opposes violence than my main job writing as the new number a mailman a man are and anne we don't know me and their own thing stopping gay and i thought the album's you count

there are only in nablus and there's not much younger man their own hands oliver platt david neumark at them i guess mainly invested before a solid maybe chapters nyu and not spend man in the dark now like susan stanton are like so my own really are two that that's where broken i did

this man he was and is the grandson lupin is not the nation and enhance their union we can keep the pub you know it makes me think of the song alone was born raised in a coal camp in west virginia today it was a pothole west virginia and i remember so these things he's talking about oscar when you live in a coal camp you know you were very close to danger in this area on the south mending wrought other manson

had been killed in a man's actually is a pretty good life you know you have to go off and goes go find out how far to strike anywhere now for sure but when you're grown up there yesterday get them except that they're now than maybe ever as so many years some really tragic happens and when it does there's a song i wrote called red wing blackbird oh can't you see singing i thought his heart and soul he's got a bright red spot is laying because they're as black hands no allah on the earth i have against

the red and black of the latter day today really at hand the land came out loud and you'll name of all you're so they'll see is hans solo he has gotten his way

the kings chook in right around this area and there's a song that was written by coal miner kinds of tells about daily life is actually a really pointed out was important it's an education so that coal miners pay for their own it was very much because about eighty nine the boys went to work thinking slate by about ten they were opening doors for mules and drivers like fourteen or fifteen they were practice called them get much of a chance to learn might as the parents because it would have

been much happier if they're boys didn't have to bring in a few pennies when it was own right says my dad leave me i'll go to mine take this mornin says he you're with dust to be choked up up or you'll be broken down one of john whitley every versailles with those three words you want to write it down on i went to the mines to inquire for a job i knew i could run their gang leader up and abbas says ok you come down with the love that goes down well on the strength of the promise and that you know this rhyme i strove to the saloon i had forty five shines reported next morning i had that one on time to go down soon all

aboard for the bottom the top man video was kept in the cage and he even banned the bellevue that all the male like a bat in the hell i win he was a lot of smoke there was so thick i thought i would choke designer myself now there is where you grow away and so i called to the caller i got used to the roof was solid ice floe that is do i feel that is due to my back through the loop away now all i got for the year was a dollar three us companies dorothy's medical out of me say for ballads like this site is director is real way it's an awful hard life but continually most violently for black diamonds beneath your scrubs much

promotional license even coal dust away on the gray on my porch that is that as a child in the mind to provide us with bread i wish i had aided the logging he bled i'll go down down down don't go don't go down na didn't look really at wheeler a partly tom paxton i have some songs anyone to sing and i one of them tom you mentioned was about some problems of troubles in the mine can lawyer mike did called midnight a high speed lift to their own graveyard sue now one dollar will all

unfold zoe is this guy repeat the scandal rocks live may not get to fire mind that's why when the gas goes up might not be violent the name is possible i have black as and you might see old men waiting on the county courthouse to size these days these lawyers this week o'neill the

rocks slimy not why i guess i'm not be dying day of the squad draw a simple prayer beads as the adults we are now old people i has a way and it is they may be holding rocks by my high as gas goes up

it might not be higher what is mine workers is the herb and mean you know a lot of book you'll find they have homes or call about mining and fact i found a book a very fine example of beautiful poetry written by billy at wheeler it's called tales of well what's called and one of us saw one of the holmes was really a song called cold to what some of you may notice that the popular vote while i don't think anything that should be sung there should be put down

there's a lovely song selected you wanna trouble sent down like have many roman john mean this is my guitar player was born raised in kentucky and is now living in a can and nashville sold that day fb freak then days ago as the closing days to know

somebody said that so strange that you have both side of us that that's the blueprint left by the code just a little more on that it did today a knee touch before the union walked in the land fraud against the company has to reveal him that it may now those bills ten ok it is

no way the fbi so they are now and will in the days the days the phone will take jane you must have

some of those songs that support women in a household used to sing about twelve or thirteen girls how to go work it really go out and work in the home the family and about about twenty five girls shrunken and resort and a liking for them they are waiting a lot of aid because maybe some electric cars so on saturday having a white bodies sometimes it was even so strict at kenyon college that's and you had college playing games and that's why people like parties cause it was really there's another just in another name in the valley and now this is a solid used the plane by the fiddles and then says a bipartisan a little baby struck down after bite of the babies with you and the babysitters in ramallah today mom and dad and all the onions they used the least visited them all end up and buy just got together at someone's house and have party and second acts and celebrate the fact that the leagues work was over and mar was church

day and so this this and this as well well i used to have but those babies savannah that led parker would start wrapping them around on the campaigns so they get them back in a big fan of in the back room and somebody said that their girls and all people in grandma's of song when they can now that is friends got an ounce of babies mostly risk you happy and you have a surge is the chin is going on in the next year and make up words too cause even as i know all about really properly but at night when a seven and the tables planted years it was this t and an actor was the menu first it's got to be made at their parents' bedroom of those kids they got big old baby ok in this is how one under this video you'll mostly deal with is nelson are that has meant that my father was quite an we made at home in the back which it sits on a sudden having a real

spy with now now

i'm renee montagne the fuck the day we got a problem but it is a start years ago a mining began and everybody is talking about and only the person on the stage there's no song on the subject you walk around these green fields likely where your mind mining towns he

believes the slag heaps to fly they got out of the ground i guess like toothpaste out of the queue and i guess it was at that have the song about one billion online a year remember you're talking about a song called you can't put the wanamaker so it's on a real oil and i'd just like to say that traditionally none people were very reticent shadid oh you can draw follower most saving back or hospitable people the same like unless the year's event can awaken up and taken out a few things in in some un committees with that people protested massive solar been pushed off the tops of mountains and actually for some loans off the hillside or if not that made it so bad that they couldn't live there anymore and the spirit of this i love the green grass milo the mountains and my granddad lives of sylvester west virginia used to be called belle gretchen they didn't want to be associated with lil

abner soleil when uptown called sylvester gotten out they go or from down charleston you go toward my granddaddy assassin for about eight miles away you can say this man used to be among us does the mesa it goes up about halfway to square off than you'd think my god where did they ever get machines they could do that and how to replace amount i'd like to sing a song girl like a quarterback down in the valley for me grozny at the side

make them until they can make way for their bigness seeing die unless they kill me like they killed of this industry that you know that's to grow they care about it a lot of life and it was gone here is

his baby as billy graham's bill the game it fit for further

in than in lewes garden was is it must've been lovely at about four hours i've seen pictures of flowers and i thought oh smell long nose or their lawyer says the allure of its color no single incident that oh yes

and yes well that was in in gray sky was is or was in one nights taylor agrees murder at two degrees and yet tell me about blogging and it worked it

is c vick to play the va i was doing a program with a very well known historian van and schlesinger and he was saying you know he got the biggest art out of an audience in detroit one day when he told them that one detroit had a number of syria's problems one of the most serious was a whole group of people coming up from the south sleeping five ten fifteen a room completely illiterate insane to work or on welfare rolls from a garbage out of a window

and he said all the nice people in the audience were not in the hands many said those of the anglo saxon white people come up for apple a job at shop i'm pretty much against poverty doesn't have much of a color to it and poverty is what's gone on the many parts of our country the minds of closed now those other sources of fuel roads are taken the young people out of a mining areas and i guess maybe one of the best observers of that particular tragedy and desolation of jean richie who in fact wrote a song called el and doesn't stop here anymore the louisville and nashville where they land as arnold passenger train it's a distance that it

doesn't stop it there's people down and so it means that the railroad nurses a sentiment of you know how the man's gone down and let people out of work that actually they got fair was lifted depend on the man's or a lot of money la natives the army known as the man and it in madison on and raise their last man ah

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bad things remember the good things merle travis while we were just talk a little while ago remembered a song that he had sung for a while and really tell about you do so much for the well itself the via made up one day and about stuff we had the when i was a youngster and coal mines that we had a kind of food coal miners dollars and it's like the song says it was mayor told maybe read some minor stroke rate is set you have millions of hauling was rich man played by march he was a pretty boy in these he's a

i'm all those of wayne in that many years and he would say that having the bill is better robbers mars mr ortiz we blame us we use a license in a number of galvanized the then set out the

actual virus in an old gold miners voters there's mail boys silos wrote them and that was always about matters of days and all that evidence is minus four days one eight christmas tree raskin world is that we have to ask everybody else to come up from tom paxton jean ritchie

billion and that a rolling back their come up with bb king was right now the little earlier views on the plate right now and well why don't you just leave the singing of what i think most people consider one of the great songs of reminds doctors of course it's b for

years give them you wrote it the city

thank you i met it me

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blocked from the stupor the knuckle with smoke air was so thick i thought i would choke designer myself now there is where you grow go way down well twenty years old days they'd been told iraq slide main audience

why am i mean that's why when the gas goes up it might not be a lead is possible whereas when the black as no way as bea yeah today at so

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