Jay Clark & the Tennessee Tree Beavers take the stage with special guest Maggie Longmire for a “live” recorded concert at the historic Laurel Theater in Knoxville to bring awareness to the plight of the Kingston Coal Ash Workers. In the early morning hours of December 22, 2008, a dike ruptured at TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant in Kingston, Tennessee. The spill released 1.1 billion U.S. gallons of poisonous coal ash into the Emory River & surrounding communities. It was and still is the largest industrial spill in U.S. history… magnitudes larger than Exxon Valdez or BP’s Deep Water Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
This musical documentary tells the story of the coal ash spill at Kingston, the heroic efforts of the workers that cleaned up TVA’s toxic mess, and the failure of TVA and their contractor, Jacobs Engineering, to protect the workers from the mass poisoning that they allowed. As of April 16,2021, fifty-one Kingston coal ash workers have died. Hundreds more are deathly ill. Yet, neither TVA nor Jacobs Engineering will take responsibility and fulfill the promises they made to the workers regarding any ill effects from the job.
Through original songs & story telling, Jay, Maggie, and the TN Tree Beavers will feature songs about coal mining, the scourge of coal in Southern Appalachia, and TVA’s lack of accountability for any of it. We will also debut "Kingston", a song co-written by Jay and Daniel Kimbro along with Ron Bledsoe, a Kingston coal ash worker who is fighting for his life as a result of cleaning up TVA’s mess.
To download a studio version of “Kingston”, please visit www.jayclarkmusic.bandcamp.com . Any proceeds from “Kingston” will be donated to the Kingston Worker Assistance Fund via the East Tennessee Foundation.
To DONATE to Kingston Worker Assistance Fund and support their medical and legal expenses, please visit www.ETF.org/KingstonWorkers.
You can also learn more about the spill at the following websites:
Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsto...)
Neglected threat: Kingston’s toxic ash spill shows the other dark side of coal (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/en...)
Kingston coal ash case timeline, from 2008 spill to lawsuits (https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2...)
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This concert was made possible by the generous support and hard work of many, including:
Julie & Ron Bledsoe
Janie & Ansol Clark
Jamie Satterfield
June Rostan
The Laurel Theater & Jubilee Community Arts
www.JubileeArts.org
Brent Cantrell
Toby Koosman
Produced by Jay Clark & Robert Berlin (www.OpenRoadsMedia.com)
Videographers: Robert Berlin, Cory Floyd & Mitchell Bain
Sound Engineer: Greg Horne
Recorded at The Laurel Theater, Knoxville, TN on March 28, 2021
Jay Clark & the Tennessee Tree Beavers
Greg Horne – pedal steel, electric guitar, harmony vocals
Daniel Kimbro – upright bass, harmony vocals
Cory Kimbro – mandolin, harmony vocals
Jay Clark – acoustic guitar, lead vocals
www.jayclarkmusic.com
Maggie Longmire – acoustic guitar, lead vocals
www.maggielongmire.com
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Song Credits (in order of appearance):
Masterpiece
Jay Clark ©2016 Moon Eagle Music (BMI)
Coal Mining Man
Jay Clark ©2004 Moon Eagle Music (BMI)
Third Shift in the Coal Mines
Aubrey G. “Duffy” Bebout©2008 Mary Rush
Jay Clark ©2008 Moon Eagle Music (BMI)
Another Mountain’s Gone
Jay Clark ©2016 Moon Eagle Music (BMI)
Greg Horne ©2016 Snapshirt Songs (ASCAP)
From the Miner’s Wife
Maggie Longmire ©2019 Cotula Music Company (BMI)
Kingston 2008
Maggie Longmire ©2019 Cotula Music Company (BMI)
Bull Run ‘62
Maggie Longmire ©2019 Cotula Music Company (BMI)
First Responders
Jay Clark ©2021 Moon Eagle Music (BMI)
Kingston
Ron Bledsoe ©2021 Moon Eagle Music (BMI)
Jay Clark ©2021 Moon Eagle Music (BMI)
Daniel Kimbro ©2021 Marble Hall Music (BMI)
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