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The Coal Porters – Walls Come Tumbling Down (Live)

Here is the Coal Porters’ version of Paul Weller and The Style Council’s immortal song Walls Come Tumbling Down as performed by the CPs in Birmingham, Guildford, London and then Brighton.

The Coal Porters on tour…

These videos of three songs give you the vibe of the first shows The Coal Porters have performed live for audiences in four years; Two great audiences in both Birmingham and Guildford, twin 🎻🎻fiddles,...

Me And Magdalena

This is a cover of a brilliant 2016 song by The Monkees. Mickey Dolenz and Mike Nesmith sang it on their Good Times! album and here Dr. Owen and Long Ryder/Coal Porter Sid Griffin...

The Long Ryders ‘featured’ in The Observer

Sid never thought he would wake up to The Observer newspaper having a fine Stewart Lee column on how he met Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich at a Long Ryders Under The Bridge concert in...

April 2022 Coal Porters Shows

After five long years apart THE COAL PORTERS, inventors of ‘alt-bluegrass’, are climbing back in the saddle to perform concerts in April. Led by ex-Long Ryder Sid Griffin and co-helmed by Neil Bob Herd,...

The Long Ryders – Tom Tom

Friday January 21 at noon GMT this tribute tune to the late great Tom Stevens goes live on all platforms. Please give it a listen. And hug those loved ones while you can.