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For those who believe in democracy in our communities and workplaces, this concert is for you. #Solidariteit Forever! A free live concert performance of Steve Earle's full-length album Ghosts of West Virginia, plus for the hard-working, never give up, a day longer sisters and brothers in the workers' movement. Union, God and Country: A Livestream Performance of Ghosts of West Virginia
On Friday 22 May at 4pm ET, Steve Earle performed his new album Ghosts of West Virginia in its entirety live. It was through Facebook and YouTube as a tribute to those who have to go to work every day to support their families and make sure America runs - the nurses and workers, the steelworkers and teachers, the public sector workers and the tire builders, the teamsters and the grocers, the miners and the academics.
Ghosts of West Virginia focuses on the coal mine explosion in Upper Big Branch, which killed twenty-nine men in 2010, one of the worst mining disasters in American history. Earle draws on interviews and testimonies from surviving miners and the families of those who died because of the historical role of coal in rural communities and the trade union history of the West Mines in ten skillfully drawn, vigorously transmitted sonic portraits. Virginia to explore.
Steve Earle knows the value of trade unions in terms of health and safety, wages and benefits. He knows above all the voice of trade union work; whether he comes from the workers or the family of dead miners, his songs show a good understanding of the “texture of their lives, the reality and the meaning of mining” in this often forgotten part of America.
At the end of the single 'It's About Blood', Steve Earle proclaims the names of the 29 miners who did not survive the explosion of the Upper Big Branch coal mine in 2010. Research into the mine disaster in Montcoal, West Virginia - one of the toughest in American history - revealed not only numerous violations of safety regulations, but also attempts by management to cover them up.
The owners had to pay $200 million in criminal proceedings and the mine was closed, an extra blow to the local community. The younger version of Earle would have written an outraged pamphlet about it and made it hard. But at 65 the singer doesn't want to point the finger anymore. He prefers to get into the skin of those who remain behind. 'It's about fathers/It's about sons/It's about lovers wakin' up/ In the middle of the night, alone', he puts the proportions on sharp edge.
Remarkable detail that fathers and sons do not share Earles rather left-wing and green political beliefs.
On Friday 22 May at 4pm ET, Steve Earle performed his new album Ghosts of West Virginia in its entirety live. It was through Facebook and YouTube as a tribute to those who have to go to work every day to support their families and make sure America runs - the nurses and workers, the steelworkers and teachers, the public sector workers and the tire builders, the teamsters and the grocers, the miners and the academics.
Ghosts of West Virginia focuses on the coal mine explosion in Upper Big Branch, which killed twenty-nine men in 2010, one of the worst mining disasters in American history. Earle draws on interviews and testimonies from surviving miners and the families of those who died because of the historical role of coal in rural communities and the trade union history of the West Mines in ten skillfully drawn, vigorously transmitted sonic portraits. Virginia to explore.
Steve Earle knows the value of trade unions in terms of health and safety, wages and benefits. He knows above all the voice of trade union work; whether he comes from the workers or the family of dead miners, his songs show a good understanding of the “texture of their lives, the reality and the meaning of mining” in this often forgotten part of America.
At the end of the single 'It's About Blood', Steve Earle proclaims the names of the 29 miners who did not survive the explosion of the Upper Big Branch coal mine in 2010. Research into the mine disaster in Montcoal, West Virginia - one of the toughest in American history - revealed not only numerous violations of safety regulations, but also attempts by management to cover them up.
The owners had to pay $200 million in criminal proceedings and the mine was closed, an extra blow to the local community. The younger version of Earle would have written an outraged pamphlet about it and made it hard. But at 65 the singer doesn't want to point the finger anymore. He prefers to get into the skin of those who remain behind. 'It's about fathers/It's about sons/It's about lovers wakin' up/ In the middle of the night, alone', he puts the proportions on sharp edge.
Remarkable detail that fathers and sons do not share Earles rather left-wing and green political beliefs.
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