We became intrigued in our last year of college with protest music and began to write songs reflecting our present-day lives and the issues facing our world. We are friends of coal, mountains, and miners and felt compelled to write this song in respect to all of them. Throughout our travels in the region we’ve seen the degradation of strip mining to the land as well as the deep miners that have lost employment due to lack of job stimulus through mountaintop removal. The way we see it, it would be just as productive to plant cigarette trees to burn down the forest rather than clear-cut the land. This song is a smack in the face to the moneyman who wants to render our land lifeless. Big Ole King Coal, you may keep the lights on, but we can knock your lights out.
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Sierra Ferrell's music is the nectar that drips from vocal chords of angels on ecstacy and percocet, dripping with honey, and smelling of grandma's brownies. It has been proven to "cure what ails ya", and it temporarily wards off the existential dread that is slowly encompassing us all. Don't let the absurdity of our existence get you down. Listen to Sierra Ferrell instead.
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I have listened to bluegrass and old-timey style banjo music for many years. Nora Brown has the most poetic interpretation of these styles that I have heard so far. She is the John Fahey of banjo (but also with striking vocals). brit_b
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