The Muddy Coal Mine interview with song

[KristinaKLu1]

Great song! My great grandfather worked there. My grandma grew up and lived there until she finished highschool. I took my kids back there to see the tipple this summer.

[stuckerd]

I worked in the mines here in Southern Illinois for 20 years and am glad to see tributes done to all the miners in the past that had helped in building the communities here... They fought hard for their rights to a safe work place and to raise their families. Working for low pay and living a hard life..

[muddysunshinemusic]

I am grateful to you and all those who helped build our communities and providing for us in a thousand ways.

Thank you! Miners deserve so much more than a song.

[steveinnepa]

I really enjoyed the video. Great song and a great way to honor the coal miners. My late father worked in the anthracite coal mines, here in northeastern Pa. for over 20 years. Today, the deep mines are long gone. The abandoned Huber Breaker in Ashley, Pa. is sole survivor of the days when coal was king.

Thanks for uploading the video.

Steve

[stevebaileymusic]

great song!!!

[dws62946]

Rocky,

Thanks for this tribute to the heritage and history of Southern Illinois Coal Mines and Miners. Sure did enjoy it. I remember growing up in SI, and not too long ago, when $100 day in the mines was good pay. Where did you record the song?

[muddysunshinemusic]

Thank you for that!

I recorded at T.J. Larkin's studio here in Nashville. It was actually a demo, but I decided to put it anyway. It ended up being the most popular song on the album and received the most airplay.

[littlee44]

I am a lifelong resident of Saline county and i enjoyed this video. Thanks.

[oldkarateka]

I tried answering a couple of times but it wouldnt go, to answer ur question, yes, I was born in Harrisburg, Grandpa was Phillip Cuthbert Herron

[oldkarateka]

Ill try this again, My Grandpa was Phillip Cuthbert Herron,, I think he was a Mine Boss, or foreman, maybe Superintendant,, not sure. But he died when my Mother was a little girl, so I dont remember him. Other than many stored Grandma and Mom told me about him. Grandma was Pearl Herron, Lived in the big white house on the hill between Muddy and before the Saline Fork river Bridge going towards Harrisburg.

[ThinkBe4YouTalk]

umm..do u mybe know..were the miners really sealed in the mine ? and ..was the mine closed after this accident occured?

[muddysunshinemusic]

Muddy coal Mine song is really about several different mining disasters in Southern Illinois. There were most certainly several instances of underground explosions which resulted in fires where the shafts were sealed to extinguish the fires. My grandfather Jesse Reynolds was in a mining accident in Rosiclare IL in 1946, many men died. I grew up less than 4 miles from O'gara #12 in Muddy. My school in Muddy, which was less than a few hundred yards from the tipple. As a result, I wrote this song.

[oldkarateka]

Yessir;,, My Grandpa's name was Phillip Cuthbert Herron, He died in that Coal Mine Cavein when my Mother was a little girl, her Name was June Herron,, they lived in the big white house on the hill going from Muddy to Harrisburg, just before the Saline River Bridge. I was born in Harrisburg, and always loved going out to Muddy as a kid,,but we moved away from there when i was 7 or 8 years old.. Im 65 now,, so it was a while back :-)

[oldkarateka]

Great music,, loved it. My Grandaddy was killed in a cave in , in the Muddy Coal mine.

[muddysunshinemusic]

Thank you! What was your grandfather's name? Was your family from that area?

[stimal]

very nice song

search stimal

see coalmine song

about the sago mine accident

[dhawg75]

Hey from Saline County, Arkansas. Bauxite was mined here.

[scottgardnermerrick]

Fanfreakin'tastic. Rocky Alvey is creating a new kind of folk music and contributing in ways that we need, desperately. I happen to have heard quite a few of his songs over the past several years I've called him friend, and all I can say is, "Watch out, American music culture!"

[Lincoln6Echo1]

John's cousin here, Rocky.

Nice video. Where'd you get all those old sepia photos from the mine? John have them? or the Saline Historical Society?

[muddysunshinemusic]

Hello John's Cousin. They are from the Coal Room in the Saline County Museum. It was a bit surreal to see the pictures of the mines when they were working. I remember seeing the stacks at Wasson in the 60s. Of course I was thrilled to find those photographs of O'Gara #12. Thank you for the comment!

Rocky

[melinda010100]

wonderfully done!

[muddysunshinemusic]

Thank you! (Thanks to Jesse at Chapterhouse Pictures)