Album · Compilation
Music of Coal: Mining Songs From the Applachian Coalfields
Tracks
| # | Title | Sung by | |
|---|
| 1.1 | Down in a Coal Mine (excerpt) | Edison Concert Band | 1:21 |
| 1.2 | Mining Camp Blues | Trixie Smith | 2:55 |
| 1.3 | Sprinkle Coal Dust on My Grave | Orville Jenks | 2:41 |
| 1.4 | Coal Miner's Blues | Maybelle Carter, Sara Carter | 3:01 |
| 1.5 | Hard Times in Coleman's Mine | Aunt Molly Jackson | 2:35 |
| 1.6 | He's Only a Miner Killed in the Ground | Ted Chestnut | 2:32 |
| 1.7 | Coal Black Mining Blues | Nimrod Workman | 1:13 |
| 1.8 | '31 Depression Blues | Ed Sturgill | 2:45 |
| 1.9 | Prayer of a Miner's Child | Dock Boggs | 1:48 |
| 1.10 | That Twenty-Five Cents You Paid | workshop participants, Sarah Ogan Gunning, Nimrod Workman, Jack Wright, Sparky Rucker, George Tucker | 2:21 |
| 1.11 | The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore | Jean Ritchie | 3:10 |
| 1.12 | Dark as a Dungeon | Merle Travis | 1:55 |
| 1.13 | Come All You Coal Miners | Sue Massek, Karen Jones | 2:21 |
| 1.14 | My Sweetheart's the Mule in the Mines | Mike Kline | 0:22 |
| 1.15 | Thirty Inch Coal | Jack Adkins | 2:35 |
| 1.16 | Black Waters | Jim Ringer | 3:34 |
| 1.17 | Roof Boltin' Daddy | Gene Carpenter | 2:25 |
| 1.18 | Dream of a Miner's Child | Carter Stanley, Jeannie Stanley | 2:43 |
| 1.19 | Coal Miner's Boogie | George Davis | 2:55 |
| 1.20 | The Yablonski Murder | Hazel Dickens | 2:57 |
| 1.21 | What Are We Gonna Do? | Dorothy Myles | 3:01 |
| 1.22 | Explosion at Derby Mine | Charlie Maggard, Ron Short, Ron Swindall, Vickie Swindall, Papa Joe Smiddy, Joan Short, Randy Stanley | 4:03 |
| 1.23 | Blind Fiddler | Jim "Bud" Stanley | 3:00 |
| 1.24 | Loadin' Coal | John Hutchinson | 2:31 |
| 1.25 | Coal Town Saturday Night | Randall Hylton | 3:05 |
| 1.26 | It's Been a Long Time | Roger Hall, Sonny Houston | 3:38 |
| 1.27 | Fountain Filled With Blood | Elder James Caudill | 3:50 |
| 2.1 | West Virginia Mine Disaster | Molly Slemp | 2:49 |
| 2.2 | Union Man | Rob Ickes, Tim Stafford, Wayne Taylor, Jason Burleson, Shawn Lane | 3:35 |
| 2.3 | Blue Diamond Mines | Jimmy Gaudreau, Jim Watson, Robin Williams, Linda Williams | 4:44 |
| 2.4 | Set Yourself Free | Billy Gene Mullins | 0:49 |
| 2.5 | Redneck War | Ron Short | 5:18 |
| 2.6 | Sixteen Tons | Beverly D'Angelo, Ned Beatty, Dub Cornett | 2:30 |
| 2.7 | There Will Be No Black Lung (Up in Heaven) | Rev. Joe Freeman | 2:01 |
| 2.8 | Deep Mine Blues | Nick Stump | 3:31 |
| 2.9 | I'm a Coal Mining Man | Tom T. Hall | 2:24 |
| 2.10 | Dirty Black Coal | Kenneth Davis | 4:31 |
| 2.11 | Black Lung | A.J. Roach | 3:22 |
| 2.12 | Coal Dust Kisses | Suzanne Mumpower-Johnson | 4:05 |
| 2.13 | Coal Tattoo | Dale Jett | 4:07 |
| 2.14 | A Strip Miner's Life | Don Stanley & Middle Creek | 3:01 |
| 2.15 | Daddy's Dinner Bucket | Ralph Stanley II | 3:30 |
| 2.16 | In Those Mines | Russell Moore, Valerie Smith | 3:43 |
| 2.17 | Miner's Prayer | Ralph Stanley & Dwight Yoakam | 3:08 |
| 2.18 | Dyin' to Make a Livin' | W.V. Hill | 3:38 |
| 2.19 | You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive | Darrell Scott | 5:52 |
| 2.20 | They Can't Put It Back | Jack Wright, Roger Hall | 2:30 |
| 2.21 | Which Side Are You On? | Natalie Merchant | 5:01 |
Source: MusicBrainz release group 14d62535-38b9-37d5-9342-e134e25a03ec (CC0). Cover: Cover Art Archive.