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Music For The Mountains --- 2011-02-12

"Music for the Mountains", compiled and executive produced by Mark Utley, is a compilation album and live concert created to call attention to (and raise funds to fight against) mountaintop removal, a form of mining in which explosives are used to literally blast the tops off of mountains so that coal companies can access strips of coal, which eventually gets converted into energy for everyone’s households. Mountaintop removal is employed in the hills of Kentucky, West Virginia and east Tennessee. It permanently destroys the landscape, and it pollutes the environment, including the drinking water for the local residents. To date more than 500 Appalachian mountains have been dynamited and nearly 2,000 miles of rivers and streams have been choked by mountaintop removal coal mining. The Appalachians are the only mountain range in the country where this practice is allowed. This CD, a compilation album of music by artists from Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, and Alabama, features a combination of original songs specially written for this project, traditional covers specially recorded for this project, and previously-unreleaed tracks donated for this project. None of the music on this CD is available anywhere else. It was released in conjunction with a benefit concert at the historic Southgate House in Newport, KY on February 12, 2011.