Performer Notes:

• Liner Note Author: Frank Godbey.
• What makes this sampler of various Rebel Records artists work is its theme, as bluegrass performers the Seldom Scene, Blue Highway, the Country Gentlemen, and others present a set of Southern mining songs from Rebel's huge back catalog. Certainly one of the most dangerous and emotionally harrowing jobs ever imagined, mining makes sheer life and death a daily issue, and a body of songs that is part folk, part blues, part country, part spiritual, and part political has formed around it. Call it American realism with a social agenda. Mining songs, like train songs, remind us that life is a daily and perilous journey, and that between here and there anything at all can happen. They remind us that life is dearly lived. ~ Steve Leggett

Producer: David Freeman (Compilation)

Format: CD (1 Disc); Stereo

Studio/Live: Studio

Country: USA

Release Date: 1 March, 2010

Label: E1 Entertainment Dist ***

Dimensions: 12.6 x 14.3 x 0.9 centimeters (0.09 kg)