Awesome Music / Matewan

• This film features several songs by bluegrass singer (and notorious 1970s pro-union activist) Hazel Dickens, who—in a meta Moment of Awesome—also cameos. For context, these songs (like "Fire in the Hole" and "Gathering Storm") are a traditional kind of Appalachian bluegrass that miners used in active protests, as seen in the documentary Harlan County U.S.A.. In a film where most music is diegetic, the use of this type of music adds to the realism of the miners' struggle.