Coal Country Music — Mountaintop Removal CD

Heartwood has been working with singer/songwriter Jason Wilber, who is the guitar player for John Prine, on a compilation CD of music by nationally known recording artists to raise awareness about and help stop the tragedy of mountaintop removal coal-mining.

We have partnered with film-makers Mari-Lynn Evans and Phylis Geller whose award winning documentary, "The Appalachians," was widely shown on PBS to produce the music CD as a companion piece to their new film, "Coal Country." The CD is called "Coal Country Music." "Coal Country" has been accepted into several film festivals and was recently named the best film of the year at the West Virginia Film Festival. Coal Country will be shown on the Discovery Channel's Planet Green/Reel Impact series on November 14 and is scheduled to be released on DVD, in conjunction with the Coal Country Music CD release, November 10.

"Coal Country Music" includes liner notes by Ashley Judd and Woody Harrelson and information about the Alliance for Appalachia. All proceeds from the sale of the CD will be used to support the work of the Alliance for Appalachia of which Heartwood is a member ­ and be used to STOP mountaintop removal coal-mining. Review copies are available.

For more information, contact Andy Mahler, 812.723.2430 andy@blueriver.net

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Coal Country Music song list

Keys to the Kingdom / Cedar Hill Refugees with Ralph Stanley

Acony Bell / Gillian Welch

Big Coal River / Celeste Krentz

Beat On The Mountain / Jason and the Scorchers

Paradise / John Prine

Red Winged Black Bird / Kathy Mattea

Down in The Valley / Justin Townes Earle

In Her Veins / Jason Wilber

Leave Those Mountains Down / Shirley Stewart Burns

Which Side Are You On / Natalie Merchant

Appalachia / Diana Jones

Coal Mining Man / Tom T. Hall

Angel From Montgomery / Bonnie Raitt and John Prine

Canary / Phylis Geller

Cool of the Day / Jean Ritchie

Heaven / The Klezmatics

Long walk home / Sky Fisk

Can’t Put It Back / Public Outcry

Blowin' in the Wind / Willie Nelson

The following quote from actor Woody Harrelson which appears on the CD describes what's at stake:

"Mountaintop removal is the most devastating peacetime activity in human history -- in fact, if the destruction to our nation's natural and cultural heritage were being perpetrated by a foreign power, it would be considered an act of war -- because in a very real sense, it is -- it is a war against the Earth. Every week, mountaintop removal coal-mining detonates more explosive force on the land and the communities of Appalachia than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima; to extract the coal that is warming the planet and poisoning the water, air and land.

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Learn more about this project, and the Coal Country movie at:

http://www.heartwood.org

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Canyonland Defense Fund and Transition Laguna will be sponsoring a screening of the Coal Country Movie in Laguna Beach on Dec ember 13th. In addition to the movie, there will be speakers and live folk music. I will be performing some Woody Guthrie and some Coal Mining songs. Ay c2ers from Southern California, I would love to see you there. Hunt me up and introduce yourselves!

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COAL COUNTRY

This is the full length movie! Please join us December 13, 2009 @ 5:30 PM At the Laguna Festival of Arts Forum Theater 650 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651

Benefit to honor the work being done to stop mountain top removal of coal that is destroying our Appalachian mountains and their heritage Proceeds from this event will be donated to Coal River Mountain Watch to be used for clean drinking water This event will also feature Folk Music by Local Artists, Environmental Guest Speakers and discussion of Climate Change. A $15.00 donation is suggested. Please call the Canyon Land Conservation Fund at 714-649-2820 for more information or Transition Laguna at www.transitionlaguna.org-949-510-1359.

The Canyon Land Conservation Fund brings you this exclusive film showing in its full length; an un-edited version in its ONLY OC film showing. This showing has the complete endorsements of the film makers: Evening Star Productions, Coal River Mountain Watch, the Beyond Coal Movement and our good friend Judy Bonds.

What can be said about Ms. Judy Bonds who in our opinion is one of the most dynamic activist of our time. She has won numerous awards-including the prestigious Goldman Foundation Award for environmental activism and has spoken before the UN General Assembly (on multiple meetings). She has spoken to our US Congressional Leadership, her State Elective Leadership, her Governor, her Mayor all the local elected officials-or anyone who will listen to her plea, no her cry, regarding Mountain Top Removal, Climate Change, Alterative Energy Solutions and our responsibilities for Creation and it’s Care. This cry is an all out attempt to stop the desecration of the only true North American Rain Forest-Appalachia. CLCF applauds our Friend Judy in her activism and believe this issue needs all of our attention.

Currently 44% of the SOCAL electrical demand is provided by the burning of Coal. The Kings of Coal no longer reside in the historic coal fields of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee or Ohio; these multi-national corporations stretch their operations far into the Rocky Mountain States: Colorado, Utah, Nevada and Northern California. By most scientific resolve the burning of coal is the dirtiest; planet killing energy production man has created to date. Mountain Top Removal is the obscene, tax supported removal of complete mountain tops in the LAZIEST WAY to achieve energy production and profit its investors since hydraulic gold mining in Northern California.

Mountain Top Removal is not MINING it is butchery; just follow some of these web sites to review this savage Barbary:

http://www.earthjustice.org/our_work/campaigns/stop-mountaintop-removal.html?gclid=CNCW0paOpp4CFQ4hDQodSFSXmQ

http://www.nrdc.org/energy/coal/mtr/?gclid=CI3Fk5aPpp4CFQ8MDQodSEhvlA

http://www.sierraclub.org/coal/mtr/

http://www.ilovemountains.org/

Follow the activism at Coal River Mountain Watch and see the water that has been left to drink:

http://www.crmw.net/photos.php?message=&action=continue&cat_id=11-1

NOW JOIN US to view this amazing movie: Coal Country

Enjoy the music of Local Folk Singers as they entertain us with songs of our heritage.

Celebrate with a slice of apple pie and some hot cider as we talk about our mutual concerns for our families, our lives and our planet.

ALL PROCEEDS FOR THIS EVENT WILL BENEFIT COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH AND THEIR CONTINUING ACTIVISM TO STOP MTR AND ITS DEVASTAING EFFECTS ON LIFE AND ENVIRONMENT.

FINALLY, PLEASE CONTACT OUR SENATOR BOXER AT HER SITE TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE AND NOT GIVE KING COAL A PASS IN THE CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE: http://boxer.senate.gov/

PLEASE JOIN US, THANK YOU

"Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint." It's time for us to start dreaming again and invite the country to dream with us. We don’t have any "throw away" species, nations, or children. We must birth a global green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty." Van Jones, ex-environmental advisor to President Obama

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