This German import -- which goes for about double the cost of the U.S. CD
Folk Songs of the Hills
-- contains not only
and
Back Home
(but not the previously unreleased
"This World Is Not My Home"
), but also an entire additional
Merle Travis
album, the 1963
Songs of the Coal Mines
, which deals with the lot and lives of coal miners. The songs include
"Black Gold,"
"Harlan County Boys,"
"The Browder Explosion,"
"Bloody Brethitt County,"
a song as savage as its title implies. The extra cost is worth it, in the absence of a separate U.S. CD release of
.
Travis
completists will want it, and any
folk
or
blues
enthusiast (check out
"Pay Day Comes Too Slow"
) should want it. ~ Bruce Eder