@@throngcleaver if you are talking about that garbage from Nashville you can keep it. Hell I've never hear Tyler Childers once on the radio since I found him a few years ago.
@@rustyshacklefort3715 I only turn on the radio in my truck once a year, maybe every two years, and then it's only for a few minutes before I shut it back off. I don't like being spoon fed what I want to see or hear, based on someone else's desire to peddle their moneymakers. In general, I don't care for country music, even though I do like Tyler Childers' style of it. Genre isn't important to me. If I like a song, I like the song. Your comment made me realize the underlying meaning of the OP's comment, in that true "country" music, isn't what is being played on the radio. I get it now. Thanks for helping me realize that. 👍
I'm from Albania. My grandpa was a miner back there, lived his whole life with a bullet in his head, Had his appendix removed in his kitchen because they were too poor for a hospital bill, still lived until his 80's. I identify with this music more than anything. God Bless to everyone in the struggle.
@@C21H30O2 im asking for education. Infections were the number 1 killer in civil war field hospitals. If there is a way to safely do home surgery I'm not afraid of the pain. Id like to know how it's done
@notabeta3675 the civil war was no different than any other war, we have roughly enough doctors to treat our countrymen, now say we started a war that killed the equivalent of 6 million Americans would we have the health care system in place to deal with that?
My great Grandfather worked all his life in the coal mines in North Carolina. Died at 93. Don't stop what you are singing. Radio country music died a number of years ago, but you are keeping real country music alive.
Both my grandfathers, one uncle and countless other family members worked the mines in WV. One of my grandfathers died of black lung. The other one had permanent and lasting injuries from it. But they loved it.
can we stop talking about "real country" each state has a different culture and economy and thats what makes it that certain type of country. West virginia country will be different than Nashville Texas country will be different than Carolina Georgia Country will be different than Alabama. They're all real.
I see what you are stating ...I learned of this song a day or two after Chris / Oliver went supra-lucent. This is blue grass / folk music of Appalachia according to them in Appalachia i seen, they don't call it country music...rather it''s music for the country.@@uberhaxonova
g g pa and gggpa were coal miners the oldest immigrated here from austria in 1904. my gpa tells a story about his father where he would open the stove, pull out a lit coal, light his pipe w it and then put it back on account of all his calluses
Oliver Anthony's song brought me to this channel. This channel is a gift that keeps on giving. I've never been into country but that has changed now. I have found where there are songs with heartfelt meaning, I've missed that so much!
have a listen to Colter Wall's "Bob Fudge", Colby Acuff's "If I were teh Devil", Uncle Lucius' "Keep the Wolves Away" and Gordon Lightfoot's "Edmund Fitzgerald". Country is great. What plays on teh radio aint.
Amen. The radio is a sell out. I stopped listening to sponsored music about two years ago and went all independent and honestly, I have fallen back in love with music thanks to music like his. ❤❤❤
Worked 45 years as underground coal miner, no regrets. Worked alongside some of the toughest and hardest working men that has ever drew a breath. A lot of negative things said about coal but it helped build this great nation.
@@SapperRJMorgan No disrespect what so ever. I know where you are coming from. I grew up in a coal camp outside Appalachia VA. still there. It was a booming place now there is nothing. Keep singing young man I think you will go far.
12 years as a underground hard rock miner in Montana. Loved every minute of it and would encourage my boys to do it also if they so choose so..it'll make a man out of ya
Holy shit. I am so happy "Rich Men North of Richmond" blew up... because it brought me to this channel. This song... is amazing. Don't come from a family of miners, but mechanics and other manual laborers. This song is POWERFUL.
You and me both brother, the music here is powerful. I come from both Navy and Shipyard worker family, my brother and I chose the Navy, both of my cousins chose the Shipyard. We all feel like we had the shit beat out of us, but we would not change it for the world.
Same... I can't believe I've been missing out on this shit for this long. Thank you Oliver and RadioWV for bringing me to Logan Halstead and Dark Black Coal. This song is awesome and these lyrics are insane. Such a beautifully written song.
My granddaddy died from black lung shoveling coal for nearly 50 years... I can remember him working 7 days a week from sun up to sun down. He'd come home, lay on the hard floor and put his feet up on a chair because his back hurt, and then fall asleep right there on the floor until it was time to get up and do it again.
My grandfather immigrated from Europe his family were all coal miners . I remember his lunch bucket and wheat light going out the door every morning at 4am with my uncle's. They all died from black lung but never bitched or griped while they wasted away. We promised to never go down the shafts for work and we never broke that promise. Thanks Pap.
There's no glamour in knowing you dying to live. My pap lost fingers in the mines and was told work or lose your job. He wrapped his hand in his handkerchief and kept working. No glory just tough SOBs. All the owners should pay them until they pass away from the black death and then pay the widows .
But it fed families and enabled the growth of a nation. Millions knew what it did and stayed working. Their suffering, sacrifice made a legacy where the fantastically privileged and pampered can diddle away their time sniveling and complaining in the victimhood mentality that they suffered not one minute of as if they too did not directly benefit from coal production. It was, and to some degree, still is a free country. There were no chains that bound people to the mines. The true chains are the mental prisons we place ourselves in at the direction of the power brokers who make us believe that someone owes us something. As grandpa and grandma used to say “Quitcherbitchin’ and get to doin’!” They’d be disgusted by the population of sniveling simpering ingrates who denigrate their sacrifices by being the dupes.
Lost my uncle in the Upper Big Branch mine explosion in 2010. He was 6 weeks away from retirement. He absolutely loved his job and the men he worked with. He loved his work, his family, and God. RIP Uncle Benny. Thank you for this song.
Have you heard Sierra Ferrell sing "29", with 600 Pounds Of Sin, about that disaster? Terrible incident, their tribute to the miners who died is amazing.
The reality of it all is heavy, but you see... he loved his job and that way it wasn't time wasted. RIP to all the workers who die providing for their family...
Grandaddy spent so many Alabama years underground. Passed at 78 with black lung and emphysema. He was a man of few words but my daddy said he spoke you should pay attention. Hard men in my family and proud of them. That battle blood still flows in our veins and our memories. It took me through the Marine Corps and brought me home safe. Beautiful song and well sang young sir!
Mine too, but right next door in Lynch Kentucky. He was a great great man. I want to buy the land where the one room log cabin was that mom grew up in. Beautiful area.
Played this song for my 85 year old grandma who grew up right down the road from butcher hollow. She was a true coal miner's daughter, and I can remember all the stories growing up. Needless to say she cried.
You have her a gift. Words from a song can bring back the most beautiful memories that sometimes we don't recall with such clarity otherwise. Now you'll have this as a memory someday down the road and maybe it'll keep repeating through your family.
I grew up in Logan and Boone County WV. I am retired military. Live and work in NM and South Texas. I go home now and then. Thank you Logan Halstead. I miss those hills, and I miss my family.
Well I have been gone a long time. The Roles don't ring any bells, but the Crum's do. I knew a handful of Crum's back in the day when I was growing up there. @@jacobroles3486
My friends from Logan OD'd and died in the 70s. But so did my friends from Huntington. Had to get as far away as possible to stay alive. RIP to my old friends from younger days. It's beautiful back there just, for me, not a place to live.
I no longer listen to what passes these days as country but this, THIS is what my soul needs. This is my favorite version of this song. His Kentucky Sky is great too.
have a listen to Colter Wall's "Bob Fudge", Colby Acuff's "If I were teh Devil", Uncle Lucius' "Keep the Wolves Away" and Gordon Lightfoot's "Edmund Fitzgerald". Country is great. What plays on the radio aint.
If you will consider: I learned of this song a day or two after Chris / Oliver went supra-lucent. This is blue grass / folk music of Appalachia, they don't call it country music...rather it''s music for the country.
I am from West Virginia, my entire linage has worked at Weirton Steel including myself, I seen what the ultimate demise would be, before it happened, because what was happening to the industry and my town. I worked my ass off to go to school, I became a Surgical Technologist, I bring that Blue Collar Work Ethic into the Operating Room, because you can never take it out of this. I felt this in my heart, mind, body, and soul!!!!!!!
The mill at Weirton is now a customer of mine. I've only visited three times. As a city boy from the east, I'm in awe of you men who work in these mountains day in and day out.I could not be more proud of working Americans after witnessing that place.
There ain't a damn thing evil about our mountains. It's the greedy carpetbagging assholes that've exploited us for generations and left our people and mountains in ruins.
@@oldgreen100 It's both actually. But I lived in the Montana mountains for awhile, and soon realized that the mountains don't give a damn about you. When people say there is a "spirit" it's not a lie. You can feel it. You can either respect it and live with it, or let it destroy you, that's your only choice, if you stay where you don't belong. Everything is harder in the mountains, and I mean EVERYTHING!
I want to listen to this channel on AM radio while driving through the night headed to somewhere. This music is so needed right now. I think everyone is getting sick of radio bullshit. We want raw and real. This is pure gold.
Tom Macdonald proved you don't need the industry at all to become successful doing what you love. he's here on RU-vid... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RV7oI_Z68Pk.html
Mainstream country is garbage. Fake lyrics about lives they don't live and the fake ass accent that all country singers think they need to be "country" so stupid. This kid on the other hand is a fantastic song writer and I love his voice
294 people who have no clue how a soul felt song is sung. Had this song on replay for the last month straight. Not a coal miner but been in construction for 20 years and this song hits home. So many of us breaking our backs and losing our young lives for a job that barely gets us through life. Keep making music like this my friend. There are so many people out there that need this type of music to keep our souls alive. God bless you Logan Halstead.
Oh as an investment strategist I absolutely understand. I've made it one of the goals of my life to exact retribution against the citizens of West Virginia. Why? Morgan County, WV 1919. It's time to answer for what they did to my family. Anything I can do to hurt WV financially I will do it.
Wonderful song but very very basic song structure and chords which works amazingly well for his vocals here! Nothing unusual or complex going on though he just embellishes the chords nicely
Yeah I was gonna say the same thing. Not difficult chords at all to play but the brilliance as you mentioned is the structure along with that raw voice and emotion is just beautiful! Well done! Keep it up! It’s the first country song in a long while that I really enjoyed. Most Country songs and their lyrics today sound rushed with no emotion behind them. It’s quantity over quality which is sad. There are some Country Artist that could learn a thing or two from this gentleman. Very Nice!
My papaw who has raised me recently passed away due to medical malpractice and this song just reminds me of him so much. Worked 43 years in the strip mines always woke up at 6am worked till 7pm. Always grabbed his hard hat and a sandwich. Love you ole man thanks for making me the man I am today. I will make you proud whether you are.
Logan, God bless you son. Thank you for this song. I work as a gold miner in Alaska as a heavy Equipment Operator. I too grab my hard hat in the morning and pray that I make it home everyday with my beautiful wife and daughters on my mind. Please keep making music and sharing your God given talent with the world because you have struck a cord in my soul with your 6 string and your voice. Thank you for showing me a part of your soul. One love from Alaska. Feel free to drop ya brother a line
He's got that raw talent that is rare to find nowadays. Similar to Tyler Childers and Zach Bryan, dude could sing a dictionary and you'd be enticed and drawn with each word spoken. Well done!
listen to me right now kid. don’t you ever stop singing. you are going places! these words aren’t just words they have meanings and that’s a true artist
I grew up in the Appalachian Mountains and both my grandfathers and my father mined coal. I remember growing up all the local deaths from mine collapses and explosions and the miner's strikes, black lung .Hard times can birth beautiful, soul stirring music.
Both my grandpa's were coal miners. My Mom's Dad died of Black Lung disease in 1971. I've been in the openings of small coal mines in the Cumberland Co., TN hillsides when I was a small child, helping carry my Grandpa's lunch to him in a pail. They used carbide lamps & had a big white mule & a small brown pony that pulled the carts of coal back & forth. My Grandpa took care of the mules at his house. He was a blacksmith also.
I've done some rough jobs in my life, lived a rough childhood and went to prison at 17. I can hear the pain in the voice of these Miners. Something about the unspoken misery of one's journey is very touching. The power to keep going is unbreakable for some. For others it's crushing. One foot forward and always look back at your path. Self reflection is priceless.
I'm from Cape Breton N.S My Dad went into the coal mines after 5 years fighting overseas in the second world war . He and Mom raised 9 kids on a coal miners pay . My older brother spent 28 years as well in that dirty hole a mile beneath the Atlantic ocean . They are both gone now and so are the mines . Great song Logan Godspeed brother !!
Born and bred in West Virginia myself, this gives me a whole new level of chills. Music, REAL music that takes true talent, likes this makes us West Virginians proud to be such. Speaking of the true lives of the coal miners (and many other blue collar workers) that give their bodies and lives to keep this country running.
Harrison County but lived in Boone, Clay, Nicholas, Upshur, Lewis and a slew of others growing up. Built coal temples as a young man. Almost 40 now and still remember where and what I came from.
Proud to be a McDowell girl, now living in NC. The mountains may have some evil ways but some of the best people I know are from those same mountains. Love this song….hope to hear more from this young man.
my grandfather was a miner from Centralia,PA.. the town is gone and the coal fire is still burning. this song makes my heart hurt for how tough of a life it was for the miners.
I've listened to this song over 100 times and it still tears my eyes and rips at my soul so beautifully... Thank you Logan, don't let the industry change your magic.
Real country music. My grandfather lied about his age to go into the army during the Korean war. Didn't want to be a coal miner or be on the farm he grew up on.
A New Englander here, raised on a dairy farm, still landscaping in my 70's...this song stopped me in my tracks on a Saturday morning with an emotional wallop. Just beautiful.
Joined the marines to get out of those hills but damn do I miss them so so much. Only ppl from mountain mama can understand the love we have for it. 7 months awayreally makes miss you West Virginia 🏔
It’s a bitter sweet feeling. I’ve been fortunate to find a job working remote and still live in Boone County but not sure that I want to raise a family here in the future. Nothing like home but man we’re holding onto threads with the economy here
Talent, I could listen to this song over and over. Almost brings the mountains and lifestyle into your living room. I love the heritage and the true feel you get from this song.
When I was in the conservatory a famous jazz musician told me at the ripe age of 19 that I didn’t know how to play jazz. I knew how to play the notes and read the music but I hadn’t lived enough to get that authentic feeling, my blue notes weren’t blue enough and I didn’t know the pain we sang about. You sir, know that feeling. It’s in your voice.
I think this song can speak to anyone who has ever worked like this or had a family member do so. My dad worked a cattle ranch every day of his life for 48 years. When the owner’s son took over he let my dad go and hired somebody he was friends with. No pension plan or retirement, just 50 years of blood, sweat, and tears left on the dust and dirt of central Texas. My brothers and I grew up working that ranch and loved it, but I understand why my dad always encouraged us to work a different job when we grew up. Great song 👍🏻
It’s a sad reality like the whole nation has ditched us for their younger and prettier friends. A whole region of this nation has been hallowed out and spat to the curb, to live off food stamps and opioids. I feel for your dads struggles.
From Abilene here many people where we are from drove cattle, picjed/hoed cotton, or laid railroad worked 10-16 hours a day in 108° tempature to die with not having two dimes to rub together.
Eastern Kentucky boy here. This nation has forgotten that the people from this region were the backbone for America. Coal provided everything, won wars and built the greatest nation ever.
Im from a line of miners, loggers, and truckers and grew up on appalachian folk music like this and the authentic stuff like this is so damn haunting even today. Hello and thank you from a good ole boy from Pennsylvania
Was born in carbon county. I'd hate to do the miners did. My ancestors cut mine props. Went to school with welsh and russians. God have grace on our good lands!
Makes me wish I could’ve grown up somewhere like you man I’m from California and I really dislike it here. I’d like to move somewhere back east I just feel like I’d stick out like a sore thumb being from Orange County with such a different way of life.
My grandfather was a coal miner, Was in the Korean War and died of black lung. We are from Ohio Appalachian area this music brought tears to my eyes. He was always there for us, made sure we knew about God, and definitely knew how to fish! I am who I am because of a coal miner.
Cool song, playing this loudly in the Republic of Vanuatu. I have always been into country music since I was a kid. We need more songs like this in these modern times.
My husband does tree work and this is one song he's been playing when he gets ready in the morning on repeat. U give us hope that people still know these rough ways in the mountains ⛰
I worked in the mines for 15 years I had to quit when I got sick plus Obama was shutting us down. But now I own a logging company and trust me. Logging and mining are so different yet exactly the same. Same as in hard work, pride and it takes a special breed to do it. I think all the time about how I always say I’m really a coal miner but I’ve got sawdust mixed in the coal dust that runs through my veins
That’s interesting I’m an arborist myself and I play this often before making my climb in the trees.. tell your husband to stay safe out there; from a tree brother across the branch.
This channel is amazing. Thank you Oliver Anthony, there are so many talented singers who need recognition. It’s my new favorite music channel to listen to.
Worked in the mines for 10 years before I was "forced into retirement" when they closed the doors that January morning. This song really hits home. It was hard work but I enjoyed it.
If your from West Virginia, everyone has a spot that looks the same as the back drop that he has. If you don’t know what I’m taking about, your NOT from West Virginia!! W.V. Proud!!!!
It was powerful enough for me to get up and tell my boss im gone no rasie is worth it to me, If ur from WV, WVU grad. raised on the Coal River nothing will be worth leaving.... to beat that when i got back everyones dead or zombies....
They don't make country music like this anymore. This song gave me goosebumps.....Never EVER change! Your keeping what many country music artist have forgotten alive.
Discovered Logan's music yesterday morning when it popped up on an Amazon Music playlist. Best Christmas present this year. Ordered the CD there and then.
This reminds me of my dad, he was a coal miner, he died a while ago, and as soon as I heard this song I started crying. I just miss you . I love you dad❤️
Son, don't ever stop playing guitar and singing with that heavenly voice our good God blessed you with! Please I am begging you! God bless you Logan! ❤️
This song really hits hard, so beautiful. Just love it. Took my wife to the pioneer coal mine in Ashland PA yesterday, really gives you a sense of what these brave men went through for their families, and this song made for perfect driving music on the way back home.
My grandfather was a coal miner in a small town in West Virginia. He packed up and moved to Key West FL. He said it was so his daughter's would not marry a coal miner. He got out and lived into his 80's.
I’m a surface miner here in east Ky. Work is very hard and takes a toll on your body. It ain’t easy trying to make it here at home in the heart of east ky. I couldn’t imagine going underground though. Thanks for this song it sure hits home.
I’m a surface coal miner up in Wyoming. Sun of the ol timers you can tell it’s taken a toal on there body, especially the ones who used to work under ground.
All of my family is from Eastern Kentucky (Middlesboro and Corbin) and my papaw and all of my uncle's were underground coal miner's. I couldn't have more love, gratitude and respect for the men in my family and all they sacrificed. And then watching every one of them pass away as a result from the job they worked so hard at is heartbreaking. I don't think people understand or care to understand if it doesn't effect them directly. As for me, so proud of my roots and where I come from. Thanks for what you do...
Awesome song. As a former oil field trash, I can say it’s the same concept. Oil and gas definitely took my soul but I was luckily able to get out of it. As great as the industry was to me it was also a curse for a long time. And while I was able to get out it will always have my soul and will be a huge part of who I am. Thanks to coal miners and all mining/extraction professionals for keeping the world turning.
I tell ya what, between Rich Men North of Richmond and this beautiful song, I'm convinced Appalachian Folk Music is about as close as you can get to hearing a man's soul express the oppression of working class.
My dad was a miner for 44 years almost lost him twice..in the mines..now my son is down there. ...But his heart is still behind the wheel of an 18 wheeler...proud of you so much son..I love you no matter what you do and a mother ALWAYS worries about their children
Sad to say but real people making real music like this is a dying breed. Cheers to you bud! I listen to this song On my way to work damn near every morning
My daddy grew up in jewell ridge va in one of the original Coal Town houses, my uncle died in the coal mines very young, he was about 20 at the most when he died. I think my family stopped mining after that. My daddy moved to bristol, he's a mechanic now. I take pride in that Appalachian heritage, I'm glad that's where my ppl come from and worked hard and held big families together thru everything. There are other parts of my ancestry( from SC) that I can't take so much pride in. Love this song
My Daddy gave his life to the coal mines providing a good life for my mom my brother and I Phelps KY. Could almost throw a rock and hit the tug river lol
Many coal mines are unfortunately going belly up and bankrupt leaving thousands without jobs and destitute. I've seen plenty standing in food pantry lines at the local churches because the government is basically worthless.
My family left the mines when everyone moved north for work. “Reading writing route 23”. Led em to a world of misery and here I sit working in a factory up north. Trying real hard to move my family back south. If you’re trying to leave the hills, don’t. Grass ain’t greener up here.
