Composed of songs featured in Barbara Kopple"s Academy Awardr-winning film "Harlan County USA" "Harlan County USA: Songs of the Coal Miner"s Struggle" is a chilling musical reflection of the coal mining experience. From full-bore bluegrass to haunting a cappella laments and activist anthems, these powerful recordings document miners" trials both above and below the earth"s surface, from picket lines to pickaxes, corruption to corrosion. Features HAZEL DICKINS (as seen and heard in John Sayles" "Matewan", alongside a young Will Oldham), DOC WATSON, and MELRE TRAVIS"s classic "Dark As A Dungeon".