Logan Halstead - Dark Black Coal

A song about the trials of coal miners performed by Logan Halstead in Boone County, West Virginia. Recorded on December 6th, 2020.

[daviddietsch]

I was told once they still make country music. They just don't play it on the radio. Please keep singing.

[coaldigger]

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.

[VDVega]

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.

[stephenfreeman]

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.

[darrenlee]

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!

[MichaelGalt]

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.

[corey]

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.

[c-yabugginout]

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!

[EHughes]

Pure Appalachian get anymore country than BACK REAL COUNTRY MUSIC

[johnmcgrady]

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.

[mikemccormick]

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.

[AmericaRocks]

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.

[slabs]

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

[woodrow]

The kid sings from the heart. Any child of a real working man father is touched by this song and the way he sings it.

[justnmcd]

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.

[ctgeorgia]

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.

[jeremyfromme]

Damn man. I clicked off a known country singer to listen to this song and I am not disappointed. Dont let the industry change you one bit.

[logancarey]

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

[harpshirefarm]

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.

[challicelarose]

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.