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Sarah Ogan Gunning was an American singer and songwriter from the coal mining country of eastern Kentucky, as were her older half-sister Aunt Molly Jackson and her brother Jim Garland. Although she made an appearance in the New York folk music scene of the 1930s, she was overshadowed by her older brother and half-sister. Rediscovered in the 1960s while living in Detroit, she played at folk festivals at Newport in 1964 and the University of Chicago in 1965.
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- 1 2 Dreiser, Theodore; Cohen, Lester (2008). Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-8131-9187-4.
- ↑ Willigen, John van; Willigen, Anne van (2009) [2006]. Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. pp. 17–18. ISBN 978-0-8131-4977-6.
- ↑ "I Am A Girl of Constant Sorrow (SARAH OGAN GUNNING) (1930s)". www.folkarchive.de. Archived from the original on 2002-06-10. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
- ↑ "Antiwar Songs (AWS): Sarah Ogan Gunning - Come All You Coal Miners". www.antiwarsongs.org. Archived from the original on 2015-01-13. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
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