Tennessee mountain boy here..
Or Appalachian American some may say..
My family is from various hollars and counties in both Kentucky and Tennessee.
Lots of my kin shoveled coal for Blue Diamond Coal.
Lost alot of them and damn proud to say they were my upbringin.
The wife and I both play banjos and she plays a Mike Andes Mandolin.
Mike is the lead singer for the Bluegrass band Nothin' Fancy and makes banjos, guitars and mandolins.
Larry Cordle really puts the hurt and pain only a mining family can know into this song..