Pioneering Women of Bluegrass

Dickens, Gerrard - Pioneering Women of Bluegrass

Pioneering Women of Bluegrass
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Artist: Dickens, Gerrard
Brand: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-05-21
Model: SFW40065
Music Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Soundtracks:
  1. T.B. Blues [They're at Rest Together]
  2. The One I Love Is Gone
  3. Who's That Knocking?
  4. Walkin' in My Sleep
  5. Won't You Come and Sing for Me?
  6. Can't You Hear Me Callin'
  7. Darling Nellie Across the Sea
  8. Coal Miner's Blues
  9. Sugar Tree Stomp
  10. Train on the Island
  11. Cowboy Jim
  12. Lee Highway Blues
  13. Memories of Mother and Dad
  14. Long Black Veil
  15. Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar
  16. Difficult Run
  17. Mommy, Please Stay Home with Me
  18. Gabriel's Call
  19. Just Another Broken Heart
  20. A Distant Land to Roam
  21. John Henry
  22. I Just Got Wise
  23. Lover's Return
  24. A Tiny Broken Heart
  25. Take Me Back to Tulsa
  26. I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling

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I bought the two records that these were made of when they came out in the 60s and 70s. I was lucky enough to hear Hazel and Alice a few times back then, and later in the 70s, separately. There is nothing else like it, particularly Hazel's voice, oh haze's voice.
I still have chills up my spine like my buddy from Ohio Tribe, from hearing Hazel sing the Coal Minter's blues at a school auditorium in Birmingham in 1979. There is something about most bluegrass today that is either too slick, to pyrotechnically technically proficient, and just too damned unaccessable to the average person.
This is living room music, a place where Hazel and Alice started playing together back in the early 1960s in the DC-Baltimore area/ There may be great professionals like Chubby wise who played with Billie Monroe and then left to work for Flat and Scruggs, but this is friendly picking music and signing closer in spirit to old timey music than to much of current bluegrass. Alice was then married to Mike Seeger who spent much of the 1950s recording old time blues and country pickers on their front porches and living rooms, and some of that is passed on here.
These records were also made when they and I were young and their is a streak of wildness in some of these tunes (Cowboy Jim, the most unuptown version of Take Me Back to Tulsa ever recorded) that seems to have melted away with age.
Al I can say is Hazel Dickens Hazel Dickens Alice Gerrad alice Gerrad they rule

Pioneering Women of Bluegrass Poster

When Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard recorded these songs in the mid-1960s, bluegrass music was dominated by male performers. They selected their favorite songs and arranged them for a stellar group of sidemen?bluegrass legends Lamar Grier, Chubby Wise, David Grisman, and Billy Baker. Their widely admired performances made them role models for future generations of women in bluegrass. The 26 tracks have been remastered, resequenced, and newly annotated by the performers themselves. Includes Long Black Veil, The One I Love Is Gone, and I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling. "Hazel and Alice blast out vintage bluegrass-country soundsongs with fierce, raucous energy." ?Time Magazine
Before these 1960s recordings were made, the impact of women on bluegrass was virtually non-existent. Molly O'Day and Wilma Lee Cooper had forged some success, but Hazel and Alice were more interested in the dual harmonies of the Stanley Brothers. The pair's unrefined, passionate, seamlessly intertwined harmonies leave a lasting impression, and their sound often owes more to traditional country than bluegrass. Supported by mandolinist David Grisman and fiddle legend Chubby Wise, the pair attack the songs of Bill Monroe, the Carter Family, the Stanleys, Delmores, and Louvins with fire and conviction. Dickens originals such as "Won't You Come and Sing for Me," with four-part harmonies, and the playful "Cowboy Jim" display her deft songwriting touch while her raw mountain tenor rivals that of Ralph Stanley. --Marc Greilsamer

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