Billy Joel decided he wanted to try writing a modern folk song. "The Downeaster 'Alexa'" came out of that effort.

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During the 1930s coal miners’ families often suffered from serious hunger to the point of starvation. A June 1, 1976, article by Bill Bishop in the magazine Facing South described ...