The Muddy Coal Mine interview with song

http://www.muddysunshine.com

The inspiration for the song "Muddy Coal Mine" by Rocky Alvey. The entire track is included courtesy muddysunshine.com

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Music

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• Muddy
• Coal
• Mine
• Sunshine
• Rocky
• Alvey
• Music
• Bluegrass
• Americana
• Country

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!!!

[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.

[ThinkBe4YouTalk]

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

[littlee44]

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