A pair of anti-frac sand tunes — one earnest and one clever — from Winona acts Coconut & The Duke and Corey Koehler start off the ninth episode with a delightful conservationist kick. Music is also featured from cajun country crooner Kevin Anthony & The Twin City Playboys, earnest two-step indie folkers Very Small Animal, MPLS quirk-pop duo Bella Ruse, Mankato’s atmospheric folk rockers Good Night, Gold Dust, Winona’s roots music institution Beet Root Stew, and the rhyme spitting conscience of La Crosse: Hyphon.

The frac sand songs were written and recorded as part of a “sand song contest” for the documentary film “The Price of Sand” by Jim Tittle. The filmmaker’s stated goal is to “find the real price of frac sand.  Not just in dollars, but in friendships, communities and the future of our region.” More on film and frac sand mining in SE MN and SW WI here: http://thepriceofsand.com.

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Coconut & The Duke
“The Hills Are Gone”
The Price of Sand Soundtrack
Independent
2013

Corey Koehler
“Frac Sand Blues”
FM
Independent
2013

The Twin City Playboys
“Gran Mamou”
Texas Memories
Independent
2006

Beet Root Stew
“Workin’ on a Building”
Digital Single
Independent
2011

Very Small Animal
“Golden”
Starlings EP
Independent
2012

Good Night, Gold Dust
“Red Line”
Come Down EP
Independent
2013

Bella Ruse
“Darling”
Kuhzoo
Independent
2011

Hyphon
“Maven”
A Shapely Sign of Things to Come
Independent
2012

Theme Music:
Mike Munson
“Over Now”
Mike Munson
Independent
2013