Robin and Linda Williams – Blue Diamond Mines

Jean Ritchie’s song reflects the predicament that many miners found themselves in during the late 1950s. Eastern Kentucky had suffered massive changes in the coal industry. In these distressed times children starved to death, forcing unemployed miners into desperate action.

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