Articles tagged "coal"

Column: Torch & Twang

Working in the Coal Mine and Singing About It, Too

by Juli Thanki

[9.Feb.09] :. The majority of us aren't coal miners, we don't know coal miners, and we wouldn't last a week in a coal mine. Are coal mining songs, then, still relevant?

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In Praise of Older Women: The Best Records of 2008 by Women 45 Years Old and Over

by Steve Horowitz

[9.Dec.08] :. The old music-industry adage is that if a woman doesn't have a hit by the time she's 22 years old, she should probably look for another career. That's obviously a load of blarney.

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Kathy Mattea: Coal

by Steve Horowitz

[3.Apr.08] :. Mattea may claim to have coal mining in her blood and bleed whenever a mountaintop is sheared for ore, but that doesn’t really matter. What matters is the music, and the music is terrific.

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Devastations: Coal

by Dan Raper

[20.Oct.06] :. Devastations, a band of Australians living in Berlin, attempt the depth of the Dirty Three and Liars on their sophomore album, Coal—and end up sounding most like Nick Cave and the Bad...

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