Devil in the Hills: Coal Country Reckoning, by Mary Hott with The Carpenter Ants

Devil in the Hills: Coal Country Reckoning

by Mary Hott with The Carpenter Ants

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1.	A Miner's Perspective 00:25	info	buy track
2.	They Built A Railroad 03:38	info	buy track
3.	Annabelle Lee 03:15	info	buy track
4.	Room Of Lost Souls 04:39	info	buy track
5.	Take The Esau 03:20	info	buy track
6.	The Spot 04:07	info	buy track
7.	Devil In The Hills 05:00	info	buy track
8.	Rise Up, WV 02:57	info	buy track
9.	Blair Mountain Ballad 00:47	info	buy track
10.	Life's Railway To Heaven 04:07	info	buy track
11.	Take Me Home, Country Roads 03:28	info	buy track

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This soulful Americana song cycle was inspired by recently discovered first-person accounts of life deep in West Virginia’s coalfields. A life that was dominated by the systemic oppression that kept miners and their wives under the thumb of coal companies and their henchmen. The album calls for a full reckoning, to bring an end to the generational trauma that continues today.

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released June 4, 2021

Produced by Don Dixon and Michael Lipton
Engineered by Don Dixon
Mastered by Tristram Lozaw, The Furnace
Graphic Design by John Baumgartner, Rocket Graphics
Photography by Kimberli Schuman

Musicians:
Mary Hott - lead vocals
Michael Lipton - guitars, omnichord, saxes, vocals
Charlie Tee - vocals
Ted Harrison - bass, vocals
Jupie Little - drums, vocals
Randy Gilkey - keyboards
Ammed Solomon - percussion, tracks 3, 4, 7, 8
Julie Adams - backing vocals, track 3
Don Dixon - spoken word, track 1

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