Jean Ritchie sings Blue Diamond Mines: In the Mines, In the Mines

-Jean Ritchie is very modest, but nothing beats these recordings of her singing her own songs, with the videos and photos.

-I was a Kentucky underground coal miner for 14 years. One morning we came out of the mine and there was a sign on the door that read "NO WORK UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE"! Well, that was the end of my coal mining days. Blue Diamond Coal Company, in Stearns Kentucky shut'er down in 1987. I work in a different job now, but I am still a miner at heart. God bless the coal miners.

-My father and mother are both from Floyd County Ky and both of my grandfathers were coal miners and I remember going up in the hills when I was a kid and there was a old store there in Maytown and Momma would give us a dollar and all us kids would go to the store and there would be miners in there and they would be covered up with coal dust. oh- How Green Was My Valley. and the valley of them that have gone-


My father and mother are both from Floyd County Ky and both of my grandfathers were coal miners and
I remember going up in the hills when I was a kid and there was a old store there in Maytown and
Momma would give us a dollar and all us kids would go to the store and
there would be miners in there and they would be covered up with coal dust.