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Hazel Jane Dickens was an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, double bassist, guitarist and banjo player. 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." The New York Times extolled her as "a clarion-voiced advocate for coal miners and working people and a pioneer among women in bluegrass music." With Alice Gerrard, Dickens was one of the first women to record a bluegrass album. She was posthumously inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame alongside Gerrard in 2017.
Top Tracks
- 1
Coal Miner's Blues
Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
- 2
Working Girl Blues
Hazel Dickens And Alice Gerrard
- 3
The Rebel Girl
Don't Mourn–Organize!: Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill
- 4
They'll Never Keep Us Down
Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People
- 5
The One I Love is Gone
Pioneering Women of Bluegrass
- 6
West Virginia My Home
Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People
- 7
Love Me Or Leave Me Alone
Heart Of A Singer
- 8
Won't You Come and Sing for Me?
Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition
- 9
The Green Rolling Hills Of West Virginia
Hazel & Alice
- 10
Coal Tattoo
A Few Old Memories
