"The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore" is a ballad written and released by Jean Ritchie in 1965.
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| "The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Jean Ritchie | |
| Released | 1965 |
| Genre | Ballad |
Though Jean Ritchie typically eschewed controversial topics, the subject of impoverishing coal miners was touchy enough for the musician that she originally released "L&N"[1] in 1965 under her maternal grandfather's name, Than Hall. Ritchie grew up in Viper, Kentucky's Slabtown Holler, and a Louisville and Nashville Railroad passenger train ran right by the mouth of the hollow. Difficult times began when the local coal mines closed and the trains stopped coming; "The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore" reflects that time.[2] In 2008, Ritchie still owned the family farm in Viper and fought against mountaintop removal mining, a form of surface mining she called "a sin".[3]
Michelle Shocked and Kathy Mattea covered the song,[2] but it was made famous by Johnny Cash,[1] who published his own cover of the ballad after hearing June Carter Cash sing it.[3]
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