Wilder,Anand & Kardon,Maxwell Break Line The Musical CD

On a front porch in Philadelphia in early 2004, Anand Wilder and Maxwell Kardon sat with a guitar and a banjo and busily fingerpicked to keep their hands from freezing. After a few false starts they settled on a dirge in d-minor and began improvising lyrics about a labor conflict in a Western Pennsylvania coal town that their fathers had learned about from an old folk song taught in Quaker schools in the '50s.

1. Coal Into Diamonds 2. Wedding Day 3. Opportunity 4. Hold You Tight 5. They're Stealing Our Coal 6. 4th of July 7. Better to Die 8. It Doesn't Seem Right 9. Fathers and Brother 10. I'm to Blame 11. Hang Your Head High