What would it be like to make your living in a coal mine?
As local news reports out of Comfort, West Virginia put it on April 10, "Time stopped five days ago for the families of 29 coal miners killed in the devastating explosion at Upper Big Branch mine."
The disaster points up the risk and the harshness of some forms of labor, work that communities depend upon for life as we know it.
As I've thought about the loss of life and the sacrifice of these and other laboring people, Willie's new album and the song, "Dark as a dungeon" came to mind. I post it here as a tribute to miners everywhere.
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