Taylor Ray Holbrook - Coal Town Lyrics

Wv gang wya ?

they are opening mines here. just sayingg

Coal miners should "learn to program" ~ Joe Biden

"Learn to code" they said from their ivory tower.

Well yeah? Why not? Coal mining is paying for my degree in IT focusing on data analytics, coding in Python, R, VBA, SQL. If you can't adapt, you'll be replaced.

Country music is dead 💀

George Adams - & Kun🌲 music is LIVIN

Born and raised in West Virginia and live in Ohio now. I can feel this song in my soul.

I’m not wasting 4 minutes on a dude who wears his hat like that.

S/O Kayenta, AZ
Peabody Coal Mine

This is the cheesiest thing ive ever seen in my life lmfao

I've got an idea...lemme leave the snark on my headstock like an idiot for my music video. good job

How does this not have 10m views

Learn to code, guys. God.

Lyrics are amazing, but the music sounds to pop country for me.

The southern coal fields of West Virginia created me, raised me and have taught me everything I need to know about surviving. This song is so original, so real. I love it. ❤️ Songs like this is how you can tell how genuine an artist is without actually meeting them. And this here is proof that you aren't some big city "country boy", you ARE a real life good ol' boy. Thank you for this song. ❤️ & everything else you continue to do.

Is terrible natural gas is killing coal. Trust no politician.

Future coders? LOL. Biden is such a dumbass.

Writing was on the walls for years and few paid attention and now they suddenly wake up n go... wtf we's got's no jobs

These folk ain't exactly part of the intelligentsia. They aren't privileged and they can't up and change their entire livelihoods.

From a coal mining family from yorkshire uk. That fought against thatcher trying to close our mines. Great song

What was the deal with Thatcher anyway? As a Yankee I don't know much about her

It’s always fascinating when towns around a (coal, gold, ect) mine get stuck without the mine. The town was meant to last only as long as the mine will to give people a place to sleep and there isn’t a reason to visit, but people always refuse to leave.

This vidoe immediately hit home to me. I don’t know anyone in my family that was a coal miner but, there’s likely someone in the family tree that was one. This is dam real country music. Keep it up bud. (P.s. I’m from “L.A.” Kentucky. Or aka lower alvaton.

The mines are closed. There’s nothing left but devastation and drugs. This has really caused a boom for the jails and the prisons.

This Is closer to me than you realize

West by God Virginia here coal hole supporter

Where I'm from we don't really have any coal mines that I know of. Oil fields and farms.

Parts were filmed in the town of Appalachia....neato. Hey Orange-Trump where are all those coal jobs you promised?!??

Where I'm from, we didn't have coal miners, but at one point, my home town and the surrounding towns had several cutlery manufacturers. Our environment suffered greatly and there aren't that many businesses left, but like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, we are making a comeback.

Beautiful song

You need to do another song with upchurch

Hits home, my great grandfather was a coal miner after the war and passed of black lung, going up to visit the coal areas in PA where they lived, it’s just ghost towns

What about global warming?

alot of msha violations i see...

Country equivalent of Soundcloud rap

Not really sure how I ended up here but as someone who was born and raised in caol town in Germany, I just wanted to let you know that this is a great song and I appreciate your work and the people who carried the economy on their backs for so long. Thank you!

We NEED COAL!!!

Nuclear power is the way to go, sorry america

I think most of us Americans agree. It's just our politicians keep arguing for wind and solar even though they're super inefficient. Most people realize coal needs to go, I think it's just that it's a large part of culture and life for some. Also different industry is not in place yet for these coal miners so its had for them to see around it.

Chance Campbell hmm, i get your point. I’m Norwegian, we also made a fortune in oil and gas for the past 40-50 years. Most of our electricity though is generated by hydro power, as we have a lot of mountains and waterfalls and lakes and dams. But yeah, I get your point about coal being a staple in local communities around your country. I guess it’s even worse for you guys as you’ve extracted coal for such a long time as well.

Speaking about wind power, there is actually a huge windfarm being built in New York, right beside the Freedom Statue woman out in the river by Equinor, the national energy company of Norway. Going to be real interesting, they say it can provide electricity to about 500.000 people. However, I still stand by nuclear/thorium.

There is not much of us miners anymore and not a lot of people know nor care about where we have come from or what we have and still do for this amazing country I’m a proud miner and appreciate every one that has had an impact in this line of work and appreciate all the one that have passed away in this line of work 5 generation mine and proud of it stay safe out then men and woman god bless you and your families

Thanks for all you do

Where my Franklin County bois? yee yee

This song describes eastern Kentucky to a tee

This speaks to me. I'm not a miner but work in a support industry to the mines and am a proud WV man.

Glück auf!

Any black miners?

Now the only job in WV is Doordash lmao

Cost of livins high..

or Cow Town? same amount of syllables. might be easier to convert.

Get the heck outta there while you still can

Damn!!! Life is beautiful but it's a journey that each other go through to 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Amazing work on this song. I just found this after watching granger smiths mucus videos. Got yourself a new fan! Love from New Hampshire

What a nice funeral song for a whole era. Time walks on. Everything and everyone has to evolve and to adapt. Nostalgia seldom gives sound advice. Let's not make the mistakes of generations past all over again.

Go solar

Time for a new line of work boys.
Leave the rest of that filthy crap in the ground.
Come up into the daylight and start putting up solar panels and windmills.

Great song, just sick and tired of hearing snap tracks.

Blake Hall thanks, & that’s a live band.

@Taylor Ray Holbrook oh, then I'm very sorry then, it's still great though

Born in good oh Vandiver Alabama we are country all day all night

God bless Appalachia. We'll make it through. ❤

I guess you were in Virginia when you did that song and I live in West Virginia and I love the song

Can you do a version of this song called Logging Town? The logging industry got hit hard with new regulations, much like coal.

Ian Holt agreed

This song already sounds like a thousand other songs before it. You want him to change the words for logging town? Just rub shit in your ear. Same

His vocals style reminds me of early George Strait or Alan Jackson

Haven't heard much country real country till now

God bless you coal miners

Here in Los Angeles. Trust me there are MILLIONS of conservatives in CA and people like me support you !!! I support WV and all coal miners. NEver think we are all liberal lunatics in CA. Many of us revere ALL Americans. Keep survivin.

CHEVROLET🤠

My paw paw died in the UBB mine explosion I’m sure he would’ve liked this song

Keep em workin boys

This hits home, our mine collapsed twice killing a lot of the men in my already small town. Ever since the mines closed my town turned into a drug poverty stricken town. We went from being a town that supplied canada with a lot of its coal to rubble.

Great job bro.

Great song

Beautiful message. Brave hard working gentlemen, just all the people. Years and years or hard working dreamers. Brick by brick and all the little pieces. Very valuable.

Don't think Washington DC gives a shit because they don't not even the white house were to busy giving billions of dollars to other countries Zionist elite

Bring back coal and steel mills

Brother this is just absolutely beautiful. Amazing song

Nice job guys

Coal miner’s wife from WV. My husband is a 4th generation miner. May god bless and keep you all safe ❤️

God bless the coal miners

Wow a young "country music" artist...sing it brotha.👍

Shout out from Hawaii brotha🇺🇸🤙

From Malaysia love your song. This so country music. Real Raw And I about LIFE.

sometimes when a trade is done a trade town is done for, all that is life to move on to the next town

It shouldn’t be that way with coal. It’s still a very cheap, very plentiful, and relatively clean way to produce electricity. It’s also needed for steel. Miners are victims of an over reaching government and an unjustified environmentalist crusade against coal.

@Will Bennett mate even coal mines go dry, and coal is not clean or cheap at all, cheap to use, expensive to clean up and maintain and keep up with government regulations, and you just move on to the next trade mate, or new location, thats the life of a tradesmen

My grandfather worse his fingers to the Bone in the mines in KY and WV to provide for 4 kids to keep them outa the mines and pushed them north to the factory's. That man was the hardest working man I've known. He died from black lung in 2010. Couldn't leave the life behind he allways went back to make that extra dollar his whole life. I didn't grow up in a coal town but this song reminds me of that man! Thanks for the memories.. keep on doing what you do! It's guys like you saving what's left of country music

Intrepid Potash🤠🔨

Mosaic Potash🔨🤠

This song is fucking brilliant!

This song broke my heart 💜 and made me cry 😢 !!! 😔😔😔😢😢😢 I lived in the luxury of Manhattan in New York City Central Park West but when Obama became president , things got really REALLY BAD with increase in murders and rapes and robberies by illegal immigrant criminals !!! So I got the heck out of the USA 🇺🇸 and brought me a farm that already had horses and cows and pigs and chickens and cats and dogs and sheep !!! My animal family continues to grow because now I rescue and adopt abused , abandoned , injured lonely and homeless or hungry animals of all kinds including three feet long iguanas 🦎 !!! I have never heard of coal miners and their dead or dying towns and how hard they really struggled to survive !!! Back in NYC in the summers I would go to the supermarkets and buy bags of coal for picnics in Central Park and I never gave it a second thought as to where and how coal was obtained !!! I was selfish and stupid and this video made me realize that !!! Now I wonder where was all that coal in ALL the supermarkets coming from if coal mines were being shut down throughout America ??? These poor hardworking honest beautiful people who were miners are still poor and according to your video , they still work very hard but with lumber !!! These people are struggling to survive !!! PLEASE , leave me a reply on how I CAN HELP !!! God bless you that you may have a long healthy happy prosperous life !!! Your song is heartbreaking but it is a truthful beautiful song and your voice is wonderful to listen to !!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️😘😘😘😘😘😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗😊😊😊😊😊😔😔😔😔😔😊😊😊😊😊

My dad was a union coal miner for 20 years, that's how he raised us, his family. He knows it's time to step away from coal and develop sources of energy that dont hurt the environment. He wants to make sure his grandchildren have a clean planet to raise their kids on.

Ever since the frickin Democrats came into power, working folk have suffered. They ain't never got down and dirty and hurt but yet went back. This is pure BS. Since the new way, working folks have prospered in our poor way, better than we did before. Stand strong, sisters and brothers. We will take back OUR land, with the Mexicans and blacks and Indians and Asians and anyone else who wants to be true, and not succumb to lies. Keep the faith.

it's other republican states fracking for cheaper, cleaner, and safer gas that killed coal. keep blaming the left though...

Driving up through the mountains of VA & West VA, it was amazing to see all of these little towns built into the sides of mountains. The place looks like heaven, yet so many of the people live in poverty. If you blinked, you’d miss it. It’s such a special part of our country, and yet nobody seems to care. We send billions overseas, while our own culture fades away. I’m from eastern VA (Williamsburg), so I had never seen anything like it.

Thank you to all the coal miners who brought light to America from a dark place.

You can thank them fucken libtards they are destroying this country Donald Trump 2020 time to drain the swamp of corruption

This hits home to me I'm from hazard KY aint much left on my coal town

@Brad Marcum Lee Co sheriff office? Is That jonesville? I was born and raised in jonesville.

Same man hazard ant nothing no more

My mom's family is from Pikeville. I spent my summers at Bad Fork Hollow. Those days are long gone.

Im Harlan Co KY

James Mcconahay nice! I from pikeville ky

I live in Princeton WV. I want to get into the mines. But being a greenhat it's tough. I'm from California. People automatically think we are lazy ass people. But I've been around hard work my entire life. I did 6 years as a high rise iron worker. I moved here to get a fresh look on life.

I’ve actually been to lynch Kentucky before, its pretty up there when you take away all the bad that’s up there

Damn this is depressing!!!

The government should build factorys close to where the mine works can switch over from mineing to getting work in factorys ..

The cost of transportation in and out of these old mine towns would inflate the cost of products, my family is from and still lives In a ol coal town, and manufacturing has came and gone due to it.

The government doesn’t build factories in America bud, that would be communism.

I am from the "Ruhrgebiet" in Germany, our last coal mine closed two years ago. Since the 90's out goverment tries a structure change away from producing industry with much money. It only party works. And many mistakes were done. But there are some succedes. Glück Auf!

That’s my home town I know where all them places and sites are I miss my home and how it was such a great place. Thank you for shining in on our small towns .

Us MEXICANS took y'alls jobs lol now y'all singing like putas

sad thing is some of us are just too stubborn to leave this poor state.

First cotton, Now coal. Get ready Colorado. Oils Next.

Kyle Howard you may be right !!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️😣😣😣😣😣😢😢😢😢😢

This song hit close to home, i was born in Hazard Ky and my father worked in the mines. Great song.

@James Mcconahay Bern there several times lol. Do you know the Appalachian Animal Hospital? It used to be on 2nd creek, now its by the hospital.

@Justin Smith of course

@James Mcconahay My uncle owns it, I used to work there for him in the summer when school was out.

@Justin Smith small world huh

@James Mcconahay Yea thats kinda crazy, outta the billion ppl that use YouTube we comment on the same video lol.

this video is depressing lol looks miserable

Great song .

I did underground miming in West Virginia good job and miss it .4th Generation

Great video. I spent many years in the mines of wv. Sad to see the industry fading away.

Thank you for two things shedding light on those most of don't even think about day to day welder and construction worker so I know what it is to not be able to breath at the end of the day many days I've thrown up due to trying to get all the crap out after a day of work
...... Secondly thank you for the real.cou try no snap or clap in the background of the song and lyrics about real shit keep it up bubba country isn't dead it's just not played on the radio

That one dude You don't know amen brother! 🙏

You must be welding flux core 233, I know what ya mean ironhead here.

After the last 10 years of wage stagnation in the manufacturing sector I had to just hang my hood up, the juice just no longer became worth the squeeze. Its super depressing giving up something you love.

@Troph2 i dont understand why no one wears respirators. I just started my ironworkers apprenticeship and not one person ive met uses one. i use one when i feel needed. and it has saved me many days of hacking and digging all the nasty shit out of my airways. but the wage stagnation comment is so true. and fortunately but unfortunately it is why i joined the ironworkers union.

True song might be the last