Whilst working as a contract sheep shearer across the hill farms of Wales, Tom Jenkins wrote poems inspired by the stories of his fellow workers and the harsh realities of Wales’ industrial and agricultural heritage. Mixing English and Welsh languages, Jenkins has crafted these poems into the collection of 10 songs that make up When the Coal Dust Settled.
‘Wrth I’r llwch go setlo’ kicks off the album with a delicate acoustic arrangement mixing samples of miners’ wives recalling the dark truths about working in the mines with Jenkins’ lilting voice singing the album’s title track in Welsh. Jenkin’s lyricism stands out in the anthemic, upbeat “Built these towns on the crumbs of a breadline” is a sweeping, angry song about…

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