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Feb 24, 2021 1:00 AM – 3:00 AM
With DJ Scope Creep
“The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck”
― Paul Virilio
"First, the disaster. Then the weeping. Then the outrage. And we are all too familiar with what comes next. After a few weeks, when the cameras are gone, when the ink on the editorials has dried, everything returns to business as usual. The health and the safety of America's coal miners, the men and women upon whom the Nation depends so much, is once again forgotten until the next disaster..."
― Robert Byrd
| 1:00 AM |
| Johnny Cash Wreck of the Old 97 At San Quentin - The Complete 1969 Concert (Live) Columbia 1969
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| 1:04 AM |
| Jimmie Rodgers Ben Dewberry's Final Run The Singing Brakeman (Remastered) Master Tape 2020
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| 1:05 AM |
| Johnny Cash Casey Jones Johnny Cash The Legend Columbia/Legacy 1982
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| 1:08 AM |
| Grateful Dead Casey Jones Workingman's Dead Rhino/Warner Records 1970
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| 1:12 AM |
| Pete Seeger Casey Jones (The Union Scab) If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle Smithsonian Folkways 1998
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| 1:14 AM |
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| 1:15 AM |
| Headstones The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Headstones The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Single Cadence Music 2019
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| 1:20 AM |
| Lead Belly The Titanic Lead Belly Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2015
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| 1:25 AM |
| The Longest Johns Fire & Flame Cures What Ails Ya The Longest Johns 2020
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| 1:28 AM |
| Joshua Smith The Day the City Died Joshua Smith The Day the City Died (The Halifax Explosion Project) - Single Joshua Songs 2018
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| 1:32 AM |
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| 1:34 AM |
| Heretics Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Heretics Ragdoll Records 2010
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| 1:39 AM |
| The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets The Great Molasses Disaster The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets The Dukes of Alhazred TDotHT 2017
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| 1:42 AM |
| Arlo Guthrie 1913 Massacre Arlo Guthrie Hobo's Lullaby (Remastered 2004) Rising Son Records 1972
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| 1:46 AM |
| Don McGlashan Toy Factory Fire Don McGlashan Warm Hand Doncorp Ltd 2006
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| 1:52 AM |
| Homin Lviv Municipal Choir Vichnaya Pamyat Chernobyl (Music from the Original TV Series) Deutsche Grammophon (DG) 2019
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| 1:58 AM |
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| 2:00 AM |
| Paul Clayton The Avondale Mine Disaster Folk Ballads of the English-Speaking World Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records 2004 In Plymouth, Pennsylvania, the Avondale Mine Disaster of 1869 resulted in the deaths of 108 miners and two rescue workers after a fire in the only shaft eliminated the oxygen in the mine. Federal laws for mining safety resulted from this disaster.
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| 2:03 AM |
| Lex Romane Knox Coal Mine Disaster Diggin' Dusty Diamonds Lex Romane 2003 The Knox Mine disaster was a mining accident on January 22, 1959, at the River Slope Mine in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania. The disaster occurred when workers were ordered to dig illegally under the Susquehanna River without proper safety precautions
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| 2:08 AM |
| Frank Tovey Blantyre Explosion Tyranny and the Hired Hand Mute 1989 22 October 1877, worst disaster in Scottish mining history.
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| 2:11 AM |
| Swan Arcade Donibristle Mine Disaster Swan Arcade Round Again Fellside Recordings Ltd 2007 26th August, 1901, caused by a flow of soft peat or moss into the Mine, involving the loss of eight lives.
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| 2:13 AM |
| Hazel Dickens Mannington Mine disaster Harlan County USA: Songs of the coal miner's struggle V/A Rounder 2006 explosion that happened at approximately 5:30 a.m. on November 20, 1968, at the Consol No. 9 coal mine north of Farmington and Mannington, West Virginia. 78 were trapped, never to escape.
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| 2:18 AM |
| Socalled Springhill Mine Disaster Sleepover Dare To Care Records 2011 Coal mining accidents in the province of Nova Scotia spanning 65 years referred to collectively as the Springhill mining disasters, which claimed in total at least 138 lives of men and boys due to coal dust explosions.
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| 2:22 AM |
| Moss Henry Sago Mine Disaster Moss Henry Roll the Bones Moss Henry 2009 explosion on January 2, 2006, at the Sago Mine in Sago, West Virginia, United States, near the Upshur County seat of Buckhannon. The blast and collapse trapped 13 miners for nearly two days; only one survived.
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| 2:25 AM |
| John Lilly Explosion in the Fairmount Mines Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad Tradition V/A Great Smoky Mountains Association 2017 The Monongah mining disaster of Monongah, West Virginia occurred on December 6, 1907, and has been described as "the worst mining disaster in American history". The explosion occurred in Fairmont Coal Company’s No. 6 and No. 8 mines, and was one of the contributing events leading to the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines.
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| 2:28 AM |
| Keith Clark The Cherry Mine Disaster Ballads of La Salle County, Illinois Folkways Records 1957 November 13, 1909. 259 workers, some as young as eleven, died in this mine fire, which had the most fatalities of any mine fire in the United States.
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| 2:31 AM |
| Dan Cunningham Monongah Mine Disaster Monongah Mine Disaster - Single Pickndawg Music 2018 See "Explosion in the Fairmount Mines"
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| 2:34 AM |
| Morgan Friend Pike River Mine Disaster Morgan Friend Angel Goin' Down Morgan Friend 2011 On November 19, 2010, this New Zealand coal mine exploded. 29 men underground died immediately, or shortly afterwards, from the blast or from the toxic atmosphere. Two men in the stone drift, some distance from the mine workings, managed to escape.
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| 2:37 AM |
| Martin Carthy New York Mine Disaster, 1941 (feat. Dave Swarbrick) Barry and Robin Gibb Signs Of Life Topic 2006 Bee Gees debut single, inspired by the Aberfan disaster of 1966
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| 2:40 AM |
| Phil Garland Strongman Mine Disaster Damper, Duff & Doughboys Kiwi-Pacific Records International Limited 2012 19 January 1967, on the west coast of New Zealand. 19 fatalities as a result of an explosion.
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| 2:44 AM |
| Men of the Deeps No. 26 Mine Disaster (Live) Diamonds in the Rough Men of the Deeps 1991 A devasting explosion on Feb. 24, 1978, inside Cape Breton Development Corporation’s (Devco) No. 26 colliery in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. 12 fatalities.
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| 2:48 AM |
| The High Level Ranters The Auchengeich Disaster The Bonnie Pit Laddie - A Miner's Life in Music and Song Topic 2006 The worst Scottish mining disaster in the 20th century took place at Auchengeich by Moodiesburn in September 1959, with 47 men killed.
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| 2:49 AM |
| Michael and Carrie Kline/Talking Across the Lines, LLC Buffalo Creek Disaster Damp As the Dew: A Tribute to Appalachian Miners Talking Across the Lines, LLC 2009 a disaster that occurred on February 26, 1972, when the Pittston Coal Company's coal slurry impoundment dam #3, located on a hillside in Logan County, West Virginia, burst, four days after having been declared "satisfactory" by a federal mine inspector.
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| 2:53 AM |
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| 2:55 AM |
| The Folksmen Blood On the Coal A Mighty Wind - The Album DMZ 2003 A pastiche of train disaster songs and coal disaster songs.
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| 2:58 AM |
| Movie Trailers Harlan County, USA (documentary trailer) 1976 Harlan County, USA is a 1976 American documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike" [1] a 1973 effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky. It won the Oscar for Best Documentary at the 49th Academy Awards.
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