Featuring Music From Steve Earle, 'Coal Country' Recounts Deadly Mine Explosion

Working on Coal Country helped Steve Earle write his upcoming album, Ghosts of West Virginia. Seven songs from that record are featured in the play.

A new play tells the story of the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia. Songwriter Steve Earle used it as a creative challenge to write his forthcoming album, Ghosts of West Virginia.

(Image credit: Joan Marcus/Courtesy of the Public Theater)

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