Hazel Dickens
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Biography
[Edit]Protest and folksinger Hazel Dickens grew up the eighth of 11 children in a large, poor mining family in West Virginia, and she used elements of country and bluegrass to spread truth about two causes close to her heart: the plight of non-unionized mineworkers and feminism, born not of the '60s movement but traditional values. Born June 1, 1935, in Mercer County, West Virginia, Dickens learned about music from her father, an occasional banjo player and Baptist minister who drove trucks for a mining company to make a living. She was influenced by country traditionalists such as Uncle Dave Macon, the Monroe Brothers, and the Carter Family. When she was 19, her family's dire poverty forced Dickens to move to Baltimore, where she worked in factories with her sister and two brothers.
The four displaced siblings often attended old-timey festivals and gatherings, watching others and performing themselves. At one of these festivals, Dickens met Mike Seeger (younger brother of folk legend Pete Seeger), and the two formed a band with her brothers. Over the ensuing decade, Dickens became active in the folk/bluegrass movement around the Baltimore/Washington, D.C., area, playing bass and singing with several bands, including the Greenbriar Boys, who toured with Joan Baez in the '60s.
Around this time she met Mike Seeger's wife, Alice Gerrard, a classically trained singer also interested in old-timey music. At the nearby Library of Congress, the two began researching early feminist songs and then incorporated them into their own repertoire. The duo performed throughout the country — particularly the South — and recorded two albums for Folkways, Who's That Knocking (And Other Bluegrass Country Music) (1965) and Won't You Come & Sing for Me (1973).
The two separated in 1973 — two later albums were compiled from previous recordings — and Dickens began her solo career with a flourish. She recorded four songs for the soundtrack to the Academy Award-winning documentary about coal mining, Harlan County, USA. Three years later, she contributed to the soundtrack for With Babies and Banners and began a solo career five years later. Her three solo albums for Rounder, Hard Hitting Songs for the Hard Hit (1981), By the Sweat of My Brow (1983), and It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song (1987), include old-timey country alongside protest songs and songs in a more contemporary country style. Rounder's A Few Old Memories distills the best of the three albums onto one disc. A recipient of a National Heritage Award from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2008, Hazel Dickens was widely recognized as a pioneer in bluegrass music and women's music overall. She died at the age of 75 due to complications from pneumonia in Washington, D.C. on April 22, 2011.
Title: Heart of a Singer
Artist: Ginny Hawker, Hazel Dickens, Carol Elizabeth Jones
Genre: Folk Rock, World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Won't You Come And Sing For Me (Remaster)
Artist: Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard
Genre: Country Folk
Title: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song
Artist: Hazel Dickens
Genre: Folk Rock, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition
Artist: Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard
Genre: World Music, Country, Folk
Title: Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People
Artist: Hazel Dickens
Genre: Folk Rock, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Hard Hitting Music for Hard Hit People
Artist: Hazel Dickens
Genre: Folk Rock, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: By the Sweat of My Brow
Artist: Hazel Dickens
Genre: Folk Rock, Country, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: A Few Old Memories
Artist: Hazel Dickens
Genre: Folk Rock, Country, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Pioneering Women of Bluegrass
Artist: Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard
Genre: Folk Rock, World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Collections
Title: The Rounder Records Story
Genre: Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Coal Mining Women
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Blue Ribbon Bluegrass
Genre: Country
Title: Bluegrass Mountain Style
Genre: Country
Title: O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: True Blue Bluegrass, Vol. 2
Genre: Country
Title: There Is No Eye: Music for Photographs
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: American Banjo: Three-Finger and Scruggs Style
Genre: Country
Title: Masters of Old-time Country Autoharp
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: The Rough Guide To Bluegrass
Genre: World Music
Title: Don't Mourn - Organize!
Genre: Alternative Rock, World Music
Title: O Sister: A Women's Bluegrass Collection, Vol. 2 '02
Genre: World Music, Country, Folk
Title: The Real Music Box ~ 25 Years Of Rounder Records (CD2)
Genre: Blues, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: 25 Years Of Rounder Records Hand-Picked (CD1)
Genre: Blues, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: 25 Years Of Rounder Records Hand-Picked (CD2)
Genre: Blues, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: Bluegrass Essentials (CD2)
Genre: World Music, Country, Folk
Featuring albums
Title: 3rd Annual Farewell Reunion
Artist: Mike Seeger
Genre: Folk Rock, World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Country, Alternative Country, Folk
Title: The Angels Are Singing: A Women's Bluegrass Gospel Collection
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Country, Folk
Title: Don't Mourn-Organize!: Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Folk
Title: Coal Mining Women
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Blues, World Music, Country, Contemporary Folk, Folk
Title: Blue Trail of Sorrow
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Gospel, Christian Rock, World Music, Country, Christian Country Music, Pop, Folk
Title: Mama's Hand: Bluegrass and Mountain Songs about Mother
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Country, Alternative Country