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Songs and ballads of the bituminous miners
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- Creator
- recorded and edited by George Korson
- Included Titles
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- The hard working miner
- Blue Monday
- Two cent coal
- The young lady who married a mule driver
- The dying mine brakeman
- The coal loading machine
- Sprinkle coal dust on my grave
- That little lump of coal
- Mule skinnin' blues
- Harlan County blues
- Coal diggin' blues
- Coal loadin' blues
- Drill man blues
- Hignite blues
- Payday at the mine
- This what the Union done
- We done quit
- A coal miner's goodbye
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Music Division, Recording Laboratory, [1965]
- Physical Details
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- 1 audio disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, monophonic ; 12 in
- OCLC
- ocm03143062
- Credits
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- Various performers
- Ballads and fiddle-tunes, in part with guitar.
- "From the Archive of Folk Song."
- Editor's notes and texts of the ballads (27 p.) inserted.
- Forms part of: Marshall F. Granros Collection.
- Recorded in various places, 1940.
- The hard working miner -- Blue Monday -- Two cent coal -- The young lady who married a mule driver -- The dying mine brakeman -- The coal loading machine -- Sprinkle coal dust on my grave -- That little lump of coal -- Mule skinnin' blues -- Harlan County blues -- Coal diggin' blues -- Coal loadin' blues -- Drill man blues -- Hignite blues -- Payday at the mine -- This what the Union done -- We done quit -- A coal miner's goodbye