AJ featured on Music of Coal: Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields
posted by webmaster on 11.19.2007
A recording of AJ's song, 'Black Lung' will be featured on a double disc various artists release entitled 'Music of Coal: Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields'. Black Lung was recorded in December of 2005 at Maggard Studios in Big Stone Gap, Virgina and features Shawn Lane (Blue Highway) on mandolin Bill Smith on bass and Ron Short on fiddle and slide guitar.
The disc set, to be released in late May, will be packaged with a 72 page booklet and will feature songs by The Carter Family, Dock Boggs, Merle Travis, Carter Stanley, Tom T. Hall, Hazel Dickens, Dwight Yoakam, Darrell Scott, Blue Highway, Robin & Linda Williams, Ron Short, Dale Jett, Natalie Merchant and many others. Ask about it at your favorite record store.
