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Coal Miner’s Blues

Source Recording: Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (1965)

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Key F Time 4/4

Verse × 5

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Song Details

Songwriter

Traditional

First Release

The Carter Family (1938)

Further reading

Secondhand Songs

Genres

Classic Country Traditional Old-Time Traditional Bluegrass

Themes

Mining Hard Times

Jam Popularity

Source Recording

Artist

Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard

Album

Who's That Knocking (1965)

Key F Time Boom-Chuck Tempo 96 BPM Length 2:42

Musicians

Alice Gerrard — Lead Vocals, Guitar
David Grisman — Mandolin
Lamar Grier — Banjo
Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise — Fiddle
Hazel Dickens — Backup Vocals

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