James Keelaghan - Hillcrest Mine - Listen Up

[yeahyea792]

if only someone had invented to cut hair with

[ClintonHammond]

@yeahyea792 A person who didn't have a long-hair'd, mis-spent youth didn't really live much

[cdbohm]

good job.i love hillcrest.i use to live in hillcrest,still go there now and then

[jschinker]

He looks downright uncomfortable performing for a camera. This is such a cool audience participation song, and I think James feeds on the energy of the audience when performing it.

It's certainly wonderful to see this, but there's no comparison to seeing it live.

[lgcrooks]

One of his many great songs. But, I think I recognize the room as the same that Garnet Rogers recorded some of his records as well. Am I right?

[dingo909]

sure is...both from the canadian folk music show "listen up"

[lgcrooks]

@dingo909

I am Canadian but don't remember seeing the show. Too bad. Maybe we didn't get it on the Prairies, or in the 70s and 80s I was just too busy driving our kids to hockey, ringette, dancing, choir, that I never had a chance to watch TV!!

[lgcrooks]

@dingo909

By the way, he lives in Winnipeg now. Was at his latest CD release a couple of weeks ago. A great voice and a fine story-teller, in his songs.

[dingo909]

I'm not Canadian myself, but just across the border - north of Windsor, in Detroit. I'd never heard of the show til I found these youtubes, but I love Canadian folk music...Ian and Slyvia have always been my favorites, Stan and Garnet, and so...

[JBurdoo]

Just discovered this song. Lovely!

[adepated]

One of my absolute favorite songs ever, best around a camp fire with a bottle of wine and an night sky

[opusman]

Great book on it "Hillcrest Mine Disaster" by Frank W. Anderson

Frontier Book #18

[forrestry]

That is a good collection of books. I am short a few of them.

[forrestry]

185 men died when coal dust ignited on the morning shift. One more disaster for the Crowsnest Pass.