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1960
Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger
The Big Hewer
1999
Topic
TSCD 804
CD
Tracks:
1. When You Hew A Lump Of Coal...
2. Out Of The Dirt And Darkness I Was Born...
3. Schoolday's Over, Con On Then, John...
4. Now Don't Be Late...
5. You're At The Pit Bank...
6. Oh Dear, The Experience To Go Down The Pit...
7. When I Am Down In The Pit...
8. So Now You Know The Coal How It Is Got...
9. Jimmy, Come Back, Come Back...
10. Yes... He Was Working Next To Me...
11. And Yet It's Good To Come From The Pit...
12. Three Hundred Years I Hewed At The Coal By Hand...
13. Down In The Dark...
14. In Durham And Northumberland, I'm Sorry To Say...
15. A Miner Has To Posess That Sense Of Humour...
16. Coal Is A Thing That's Cost Life To Get...
17. Today, Safety Is The Prime Factor...
18. Deep Down In A Man's Heart...
Personnel:
Singers: Isla Cameron, Ian Campbell, Joe Higgins, Louis Killen, A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl
Jim Bray: double bass
Brian Daly: guitar
Alf Edwards: English concertina, harmonica, clarinet
Alfie Kahn: tin whistle
Kay Graham: fiddle
Peggy Seeger: autoharp, guitar, mandolin, 5-string banjo
Dave Swarbrick: figgle

A radio-ballad (no.4) about Britain's coal miners
Related recordings:
The Ballad Of John Axon (Topic TSCD 801)
Song Of A Road (Topic TSCD 802)
Singing The Fishing (Topic TSCD 803)
The Body Blow (Topic TSCD 805)
On The Edge (Topic TSCD 806)
The Fight Game (Topic TSCD 807)
The Travelling People (Topic TSCD 808)
The Big Hewer (Argo DA 140)
Available from Topic Records