Blair Mountain Music Video

In late August 1921, thousands of coal miners in West Virginia marched to demand union recognition, safer working conditions, and an end to company control over their lives. They were met with armed guards, state forces, and eventually federal troops in what became the largest labor uprising in U.S. history.

This song looks back on the miners’ wars not as a story of triumph, but as a reminder of the cost of organizing and the violence that was used to suppress it. It honors the workers who were killed, imprisoned, or blacklisted, and insists that workers’ rights were not granted freely, but won through struggle, sacrifice, and endurance.