Tom T Hall - Trip to Hyden video free download

Chief Blue OX

I bought all the Tom T CD's I could find on the interweb. Figured it was the least I could do, with all the songs that brought me so much.I'm a real guy and believe it's the right thing to do.....just like "t's" songs.

Samandrosa jones

Haven't heard that one in a long time. Thanks for posting.

esslar1

Harry Caudill writes about this disaster in his 1976 book "The Watches of the Night" about coal mining in eastern Kentucky. Well worth reading and it is what led to listening to this song--Tom T. Hall sets it out beautifully.

Tony2581

The Hurricane Creek Disaster, which is the subject of this song, occurred almost exactly one year after the cold-blooded murders of Jock Yablonski, his wife and daughter as they slept in their home in Clarksville, Pennsylvania (December 31, 1969)..Yablonski, the reform candidate for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America, had just lost the union presidency - in a rigged election that was later overturned by the U.S. Department of Labor - to W.A. "Tony" Boyle, the incumbent UMWA president. In 1974, Boyle was convicted of the murders of Yablonski and his family. Boyle ordered the murder of Yablonski because of his anger over Yablonski's accusations of Boyle's corruption in running the Union. Three pettty criminals carried out the killings, but the money trail eventually led to Boyle. The brilliant songwriter/singer Hazel Dickens wrote "Cold Blooded Murder" about the Yablonski murders. Her song was featured in the 1976 Academy Award-winning documentary film "Harlan County, USA".

Tony2581

I visited the Hurricane Creek Mine Disaster memorial today, at the site of the 1970 disaster, in the mountains near Hyden. This Kentucky historic site is beautifully designed, and is a powerful and moving tribute to the 38 miners who needlessly lost their lives at the altar of Big Coal.

Stewart Mosley

They have since built a memorial for those men who were killed.

wingman572

todays country is a joke

Jason Proctor

"Every hundred yards a sign proclaimed that Christ was coming soon/I thought oh, man, he'd sure be disappointed if he did." Among my most favorite of his many great lyrics!

david langhorne

and they say americans don't get irony

dumb7890

worth more dead than working

glenn collett

THAT WAS MY HOME TOWN

jeannie baker

I would love to meet him one day...so many of the best of movies and song are leaving us much too early.

lneranger4

pity nobody has put up his version of "The letters"wonderful sad l song.

jeannie baker

Love Tom...especially Especially Spokane Motel Blues I truly understand his delima, see I'm from Spokane and it SUCKS!

Midgetmedic

Great songwriter!

srigz145

he still is a fine songwriter. he doesn't play out much anymore. he mainly records and writes songs these days.

Tanner Horton

@hackman1911, shut up, im from there you jack ass

Tanner Horton

im from hyden

CRUSADERPIGGYBOY

BOY, TOM T. HALL SURE WAS A FINE SONGWRITER, ONE OF THE ALL TIME BEST OF THE BUNCH !

332SlyDog

I think this is pretty cool myself. Now mind you it may not be top shelf musical pedigree, but due to the fact the long lanky Sheriff on the back of the cover is my Grandfather, Mr. Epp North. Yep, pretty cool. Tommy Dee

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