Friday, April 25, 2008

Friday is for the Doe-See-Doe

I like mountain music just about better than anything. If you're one of those people with a constitutional intolerance for old time string bands and such, you should probably just move along. Here are two songs that have a real old-time feel, each about the ravages of coal mining.

First, Steve Earl and Del McCoury:



And John Prine, one of the finest songwriters of our day:

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