Nimrod workman biography

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  • Nimrod Workman was an American folk singer, coal miner and trade unionist.
  • Nimrod Workman (November 5, 1895 – November 26, 1994) was an American folk singer, coal miner and trade unionist.

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    Tracklist:

      1. Lord Baseman
      2. My Appealing Little Pink
      3. The Urban district Four Square
      4. Sweet Rosie
      5. Lord Daniel
      6. Remember What You Pressing Me, Love
      7. Rock say publicly Cradle beginning Cry
      8. Coal Black Origin Blues (Nimrod Workman/Happy Dale Music, BMI)
      9. Mother Jones' Will (Nimrod Workman/Happy Gorge Music, BMI)
      10. The Drunkard's Only Child
      11. What Is Put off Blood audaciously Your Shirt Sleeve?
      12. Working on That Old Railroad
      13. Black Far Song (Nimrod Workman/Happy Depression Music, BMI)
      14. I Wish for To Hubbub Where Details Are Beautiful
      15. Biler take the Boar
      16. The Asmodeus and description Farmer
      17. Loving Henry
      18. Darling Cory
      19. The Stone ditch was Hewed Out incline the Mountain
      20. Little King, Play expense Your Harp (with Poeciliid Workman)
      21. Brother Preacher
      22. In picture Pines
      23. Motivating Women
      24. Oh, Death
      25. The Carolina Lady
      26. Little Bessie (with Poeciliid Workman)

    Autobiographical remarks:

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    Nimrod Workman

    ballad singer, Mascot
    National Heritage Fellowship award (1986)

    Born in Kentucky, Nimrod Workman (1895-1994) spent most of his life as a coal miner in West Virginia before moving to East Tennessee, where he lived at the time of his heritage award. A strong a capella Appalachian singer, Workman sang both traditional mountain ballads and labor songs from his decades of union activism.

    Media

    More Information

    • “Where Things Are Beautiful: Time Spent with Nimrod Workman,” Root Hog or Die, October 2008.
    • “Nimrod Workman,” Folkstreams.net.
    • Govenar, Alan, Masters of Traditional Arts: A Biographical Dictionary (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2001), pp. 689-91, 741.

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    Nimrod Workman

    American folk singer, coal miner and union activist (1895-1994)

    Nimrod Workman (November 5, 1895 – November 26, 1994) was an American folk singer, coal miner and trade unionist. His musical repertoire included traditional English and Scottish ballads passed down through his family, Appalachian folk songs and original compositions.

    Background

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    Nimrod Workman was born in Inez, Martin County, Kentucky and was named after his grandfather Nimrod Workman (1842–1914), who taught his namesake "the old ballads from Britain about lords and ladies and the ancient Scottish wars".[1] At the age of 14, he went to work in the Howard Collieries coal mines in Mingo County, West Virginia, and he continued working as a coal miner for forty-two years until he was forced to retire due to black lung and a slipped disc. His wife, Mollie Bowens (1912–1998), was of Italian descent on her mother's side. The couple had thirteen children.[1]

    Activism

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    Throughout his coal mining career, Workman was active in union politics and United Mine Workers of America organizing. In 1920–1921 he worked alongside the union activist Mary Harris "Mother" Jones in West Virginia, and participated in the Battle of Blair Mountain uprising. In later years, he advoc