My New MP3 Player and a very funny comic

With the money I got for my birthday, I bought myself a new MP3 player on eBay. I got it for less than it is sold for in the stores, so I am stoked.


Here is what I put on it to start off: Bruce Springsteen's Devils and Dust and Darkness on the Edge of Town. And a new Irish band called "U2." I put an album of theirs called "The Joshua Tree" and a new recording of theirs calls "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb." This band is really talented and mark my words, they will be a big success. Seriously, though, I only just recently started listening to The Joshua Tree. I always loved Rattle and Hum and Zooropa, but never got into Joshua Tree. Let me say this now: that album is really really good and it as a song on it about a coal mining town called "Red Hill Mining Town." which led me to think of good songs about coal mining (or in some cases, just mining in general):


North Country Blues by Bob Dylan
North Country Blues by Joan Baez
Fare Thee Well Old Ely Branch by Aunt Molly Jackson
The L&M Don't Stop Here Any More By Michelle Shocked
The L&M Don't Stop Here Any More By Johnny Cash
Red Hill Mining Town by U2
Big Bad John by Jimmy Dean
Blood On The Coal by The Folksmen
Youngstown by Bruce Springsteen
Working in a Coal Mine by DEVO
1913 Massacre by Woody Guthrie


Shall I put them in order of best to worst? I shall.
1. North Country Blues by Joan Baez... (oh yeah, you heard me Dylan, I put Joan Baez's ahead of yours. I think her voice in the song, the narrator being a woman is more powerful than a man singing... when a woman tells the tale, it is of woe and helplessness... when a man sings the song it is of anger and emasculation.)
2. The L&M Don't stop here any more by Michelle Shocked
3. 1913 Massacre by Woody
4. Youngstown by Bruce Springsteen (When I die i don't want no part of Heaven, I would not to heaven's work well, I pray the devil comes and takes me to work in the fiery furnaces of Hell."
5. North Country Blues by Bob Dylan
6. Red Hill Mining Town by U2
7 Fare Thee Well of Ely Branch by Aunt Molly
8 L&M by Johnny Cash
9 Blood on the Coal by the Folksmen - that is the band in The Mighty Wind
10. Bad John by Jimmy Dean - my dad used to sing this song to me when i was a kid.
11 Working in a Coal Mine by DEVO


Other songs I remember my dad singing to me when I was a kid:
Rockin' Robin






peace,
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