Books, Movies, and Music About Appalachia



Still Moving Mountains, 'The Journey Home.' All proceeds benefit groups fighting mountaintop removal.

A unique combination of music, visuals, and community involvement, “Still Moving Mountains: The Journey Home” unleashes the passion and urgency empowering the coalfield justice movement in Appalachia at this critical time.  Still Moving Mountains combines interviews with local residents impacted by mountaintop removal with a mixture of local and well-known artists: Kathy Mattea, Del McCoury, Blue Highway, Everett Lilly and the Lilly Mountaineers, Great American Taxi, and Andrew McKnight.  The CD goes hand in hand with Journey Up Coal River, a multimedia website featuring interviews, photographs, maps, and lesson plans centered around the Coal River Valley in southern West Virginia.

All proceeds from the album are used for educational and charitable purposes consistent with Aurora Lights’ mission to raise awareness of the impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining. The album is a sequel to 2004’s successful “Moving Mountains,” a musical compilation of artists and residents released by Falling Mountain Music which raised more than $6,000 for local grassroots work.






Dear Companion

Ben Sollee &
Daniel Martin Moore


Ben and Daniel are donating their artist proceeds from the new album to the campaign to end mountaintop removal mining.













The Soundtrack





Watch the trailer above
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The Appalachians











The Unites States of Appalachia











Big Coal