New Harvest: Scott and Mike Mullins
The traditions of “white-spiritual” music thrive in Southwest Virginia. Scott and Mike Mullins were raised in Clintwood, in the coalfields of Southwest Virginia. Born into singing families, their repertoire has consisted of spiritual and gospel music. Scott’s late father, Billy Gene Mullins, was a coal miner, a musician, and Freewill Baptist minister.
- Church of Brethren Gospel
- Clintwood, Virginia
The traditions of “white-spiritual” music thrive in Southwest Virginia. Scott and Mike Mullins were raised in Clintwood, in the coalfields of Southwest Virginia. Born into singing families, their repertoire has consisted of spiritual and gospel music. Scott’s late father, Billy Gene Mullins, was a coal miner, a musician, and Freewill Baptist minister. For more than sixty years, the members of the Mullins Family have sung at local pie suppers, tent revivals, funerals, memorial services, and countless other kinds of community gatherings in Dickenson County. Despite their prolific presence in the region, the Mullins Family and the entire singing style of the Church of Brethren had gone almost completely unheard outside the coalfields, until the Virginia Folklife Program produced the Mullins Family Anthology. The anthology includes more than sixty years of material from a variety of formats, such as homemade 78 rpm recordings and 45 rpm recordings. Scott and Mike Mullins carry on the traditions of the Mullins Family, playing their unique style of Appalachian Gospel, performing original and traditional songs from the family’s history.
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