As you know I like all kinds of folk music. There are rich and complex traditions of songs about work. Working on the Railway. Farming. Working as Sea. I was thinking there are no happy mining songs, but I was wrong. First let’s here some gut-wrenching ones.
Here’s The Miner’s Lullaby
This next one, a Merle Travis tune, is going out to all the bluegrass freaks out there today. I can’t listen to this without welling up.
Here’s a cover – Levon Helm singing a tune first recorded by Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band, The Mountain
Finally, the happy one….here’s Sun Ra and the Arkestra, direct from Saturn, performing Hi Ho. If I’m not mistaken, the Dwarfs were miners.
27th Street 