OUT OF MY MIND is a tragic tale from the Appalachian coal-fields.
The story told in this song is fictional, but the background is drawn from the history of coal mining in West Virginia around 1920. When the miners attempted to unionize, the mining company would hire companies like the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency to provide security. Among other duties, these "hired guns" would evict miners (and their families) from company housing when they no longer worked for the company. A miner might lose his job for involvement union organizing, and of course, a dead man was no longer an employee.
OUT OF MY MIND is available from Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify, etc
http://www.pickndawg.com/appalachiansongcd.html
Out Of My Mind, received attention from six different songwriting competitions and John Francis (2006 ASCAP Sammy Cahn Lyricist of the Year) said, "OUT OF MY MIND is a very cool, dark, murder ballad. Artful. Your voice is very compelling".
-Regional finalist 2010 New Song/Mountain Stage contest
-Story Song finalist 2010 Independent Music Awards
-Semi-Finalist Acoustic Roundtable 2011 Worldwide Search
-Semi-Finalist 2011 SONG OF THE YEAR contest
-2012 East Coast Songwriters Honorable Mention Americana/Folk
-2017 Just Plain Folks Music Awards Americana nomination
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