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Arnold Rypens
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Artist: Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl
Author: Peggy Seeger/Ewan MacColl
Label: Vanguard
Year: 1960
On Newport Folk. About a devastating mining disaster in Nova Scotia in 1958, heavily mediated since it followed a previous explosion in that same mining town two years earlier, when it was no news compared to the Soviet invasion of Hungary and the Suez crisis.
Covers:
Peter, Paul & Mary [as Ballad Of Springhill (Springhill Disaster)]
Martin Carthy [as Springhill Mining Disaster]
Dubliners [as Springhill Disaster]
U2 [during their Joshua Tree tour]
Pauline Scanlon [with Damien Dempsey as The Springhill Mining Disaster]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)