Hazel Dickens And Alice Gerrard - Hazel Dickens And Alice Gerrard download mp3 album
Hazel Jane Dickens (June 1, 1925 – April 22, 2011) was an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, double bassist and guitarist. Her music was characterized not only by her high, lonesome singing style, but also by her provocative pro-union, feminist songs. Cultural blogger John Pietaro noted that "Dickens didn’t just sing the anthems of labor, she lived them and her place on many a picket line, staring down gunfire and goon squads, embedded her into the cause
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Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, 1976. Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, 1976.
Recorded by John Nagy at Track Records, Silver Spring, Md. and Blue Seas, Baltimore, Md. except for Working Girl Blues, Ramblin Woman and West Virginia My Home which were recorded at the House of Music in West Orange, . and Beaufort County Jail which was recorded by Mike Seeger in New Freedom, Pa.
Listen to music from Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard like Train on the Island, The One I Love Is Gone & more. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard. During the early to mid-1960s, Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, two friends living in the DC area started to play bluegrass music together-a heretofore almost exclusively male bastion-creating a style, a repertoire, and a consciousness all their own-and in the process making history. This early music was documented on two Folkways recordings which have recently been compiled into one CD and reissued on (Pioneering Women of Bluegrass Music).
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| A1 | When I Loved YouBass, Tenor Vocals – Hazel DickensFiddle [Lead] – Tracy SchwarzFiddle [Second] – Mike SeegerGuitar, Lead Vocals – Alice GerrardWritten-By – Charles Louvin*, Ira Louvin |
3:39 |
| A2 | Working Girl BluesBass – Roger Mason Dobro – Stacy PhillipsDrums – Richard CrooksFiddle – Kenny KosekGuitar, Vocals – Alice GerrardLead Vocals [Verse], Tenor Vocals [Chorus] – Hazel DickensWritten-By – Hazel Dickens |
3:17 |
| A3 | West Virginia My HomeDobro – Stacy PhillipsFiddle – Kenny KosekGuitar – Mike SeegerHarmony Vocals [On Chorus] – Alice GerrardLead Vocals – Hazel DickensWritten-By – Hazel Dickens |
3:35 |
| A4 | Mama's Gonna StayBass – Mike SeegerFiddle – Carl Nelson, Tracy SchwarzGuitar, Lead Vocals – Alice GerrardSteel Guitar – Buddy CharletonTenor Vocals – Hazel DickensWritten-By – Alice Gerrard |
2:45 |
| A5 | Montana CowboyBanjo – Lamar GrierBass, Tenor Vocals – Hazel DickensFiddle – Tracy SchwarzGuitar, Lead Vocals – Alice GerrardMandolin – Mike SeegerWritten-By – Jack Sutton |
2:17 |
| A6 | Mean Papa BluesArranged By – Hazel Dickens And Alice GerrardBass – Tom Gray Dobro – Mike AuldridgeGuitar, Lead Vocals – Alice GerrardPiano, Fiddle – Carl NelsonTenor Vocals – Hazel DickensWritten-By – Jimmie Rodgers |
3:04 |
| B1 | Nice Like ThatArranged By – Hazel Dickens And Alice GerrardBass, Tenor Vocals – Hazel DickensKazoo – Lamar GrierMandolin Banjo – Mike SeegerPiano, Lead Vocals – Alice GerrardResonator Guitar – Tracy SchwarzWritten-By – Jim Jackson |
2:39 |
| B2 | Mary JohnsonBass – Tom Gray Drums – Arvin NoelFiddle [Lead & Second], Piano – Carl NelsonGuitar, Lead Vocals – Alice GerrardSteel Guitar – Buddy CharletonTenor Vocals – Hazel DickensWritten-By – Alice Gerrard |
3:05 |
| B3 | Ramblin WomanBass – Roger Mason Dobro – Stacy PhillipsDrums – Richard CrooksFiddle – Kenny KosekGuitar – John NagyVocals – Hazel DickensWritten-By – Hazel Dickens |
3:04 |
| B4 | Beaufort County JailBanjo, Vocals – Alice GerrardDulcimer – Penny CohenWritten-By – Alice Gerrard |
2:58 |
| B5 | Banjo Picking GirlBanjo – Alice Gerrard, Lamar Grier, Mike SeegerFiddle – Tracy SchwarzLead Vocals – Alice GerrardTenor Vocals – Hazel DickensWritten By – Traditional |
3:02 |
| B6 | James Alley BluesHarmony Vocals – Hazel DickensLead Vocals – Alice GerrardWritten By – Traditional |
2:30 |
| B7 | True Life BluesBanjo – Lamar GrierBass, Tenor Vocals – Hazel DickensFiddle – Tracy SchwarzGuitar, Lead Vocals – Alice GerrardMandolin – Mike SeegerWritten-By – Bill Monroe |
2:33 |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright (p) – Rounder Records Corp.
- Recorded At – Track Recorders
- Recorded At – Blue Seas Recording Studios
- Recorded At – House Of Music, West Orange, NJ
- Mixed At – Dimension Sound, Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Credits
- Mixed By – John Nagy
- Recorded By – John Nagy (tracks: A1-B3, B5-B7), Mike Seeger (tracks: B4)
Notes
Recorded by John Nagy at Track Records, Silver Spring, Md. and Blue Seas, Baltimore, Md., except for:Working Girl Blues, Ramblin Woman and West Virginia My Home, recorded at the House of Music in West Orange, N.H.;
Beaufort County Jail, recorded by Mike Seeger in New Freedom, Pa.
Other versions
| Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GS-11.118, GS-11118 | Hazel Dickens And Alice Gerrard | Hazel Dickens And Alice Gerrard (LP, Album, RE) | Guimbarda, Guimbarda | GS-11.118, GS-11118 | Spain | Unknown |
| CD 0054 | Hazel Dickens And Alice Gerrard | Hazel Dickens And Alice Gerrard (CD, Album, RE) | Rounder Records | CD 0054 | US | 1998 |
