Announcing Official Album Release – June 4, 2021
We are excited to announce June 4, 2021 as the official full release date of the album “Devil In The Hills: Coal Country Reckoning” in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of The Battle of Blair Mountain, which signaled an end to West Virginia’s decades-long Mine Wars. The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor… Read More.Roots of Human Trafficking in Coal Country
Special Post for National Slavery & Human Trafficking Awareness Month – January 2021. Origins of sex trafficking in West Virginia Coal Country may be traced to a story a woman shared about her great grandmother. When the grandmother was a girl in the 1920s she, along with other girls and young women from their town,… Read More.Labor Day – The Gift WV Miners Died For
On Labor Day we pay tribute to the workers of our country. We especially want to thank the West Virginia coal miners and their families who suffered through severe punishment and even death in trying to organize to join the United Mine Workers in the early 1900s, bringing an end to the industrialized police-state of… Read More.West Virginia Day – June 20th
June 20th is celebrated as an annual state holiday in West Virginia. In the years leading up to the Civil War in 1861, discord over slavery, representation, and taxation had grown between the eastern and western sides of what was then the State of Virginia. On June 20th, 1863, West Virginia became the 35th state… Read More.Introducing “Devil in the Hills”
Devil In The Hills is a new project using storytelling and music to share a hidden history of West Virginia. The stories come from people who lived in coal camps at the dawn of the 20th century when West Virginia was transitioning from being a self-sufficient, mostly agrarian economy, to being the energy resource that… Read More.Help Us Keep The Stories Alive
Your purchase of the Devil In The Hills album and booklet package helps keep this important history alive. Your support helps us continue writing more songs as more stories are discovered.