Folk Songs About Mining

Mining, mines, miners and all things related.

John Henry - done by many
Dark as a Dungeon & 16 tons - Merle Travis and many covers

Louise Mosrie \ Battle Of Blair Mountain \ Home
Woody Guthrie\ The Dying Miner\ Struggle\ Smithsonian/Folkways
Chris Brashear & Peter McLaughlin\ Open Pit Mine\ Canyoneers\ Copper Creek
John Prine\ Paradise\ John Prine\ Atlantic
Bill Staines\ Sourdough/The Miner's Song\ The First Million Miles\ Rounder
Can You Blame The Poor Miner?  \  Maria Dunn \  We Were Good People

[coal mines, coal miners and coal mining]
Gordon Carter \ Bucket Of Coal \ Diary of a Coaltown \ self
John Wort-Hannum\ Black as Coal\ Two-Bit Suit
John Doyle\ Crooked Jack\ Evening Comes Early\ Shanachie
JOHN LILLY: Coal Miner's Grave-Last Chance to Dance (JL)
RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT & GUY CLARK: Dark as a Dungeon-Friends of Mine (Hightone)
Cathy Fink\ Coal Mining Woman\ Doggone My Time\ Sugar Hill
Johnny Cash\ Dark as a Dungeon\ Essential\ Columbia
Tennessee Ernie Ford\ Sixteen Tons\ Sixteen Tons\ Capitol

Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann


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