Hazel Dickens - Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People
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Artist: Hazel DickensEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2009-09-03
Music Label: Rounder
Soundtracks:
- Busted
- Aragon Mill
- Old Calloused Hands
- Scraps from Your Table
- Out Among the Stars
- West Virginia, My Home
- Tomorrow's Already Lost
- Lonesome Pine Special
- Lost Patterns
- Beautiful Hills of Galilee
- Rocking Chair Blues
- They'll Never Keep Us Down
Free Music Notes for Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People
Free Music Review: Authentic Folk Music
Hit: 5 Stars
If you are a fan of old fashioned folk music This is a must have CD. It has songs of rousing union fights and intimate observations of the human condition. There is an old Country Western influence in the music, but I find that appealing.
The purity of this CD is refreshing and has me feeling connected to our past in a way much of what is called "Americana" misses. This is the genuine article.
Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People Poster
Hazel Dickens has chosen to put herself and her music to work for the benefit of people faced with struggle. The vocal styles she uses, strident, vigorous and harsh, or wistful, lonesome and melancholy, combining elements of Southern church singing, country music and bluegrass, are those of a country woman who identifies with the most basic aesthetic and ethical values of her people. Generations who follow us and who have forgotten the top ten tunes on today's pop and country music charts will know and respect Hazel's music because hers is art of timeless and enduring values. --Ralph Rinzler, from his liner notesThis product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
Few singers have fused lonesome beauty and political passion in the way Hazel Dickens has, though with her voice she could deliver a speech by Newt Gingrich and still break your heart. She writes like a bluegrass-trained Woody Guthrie and sings with the high, sparkling vulnerability of Loretta Lynn--but with even more grit, more pain--relaying the stories, past and present, of the "hard-working people" she grew up with and lived with her whole life. This 1980 album is Dickens's best and most radical. She shines an intense, honest light on the plight of the mining communities--men and women, old and young--of her native West Virginia, and her version of "Aragon Mill," a gorgeous hymn to workers' despair, is sung the way the song should be. A great group of musicians backs her, including Norman and Nancy Blake, Lloyd Green, Buddy Spicher, and Tony Trischka, but Dickens's brilliance is most clear on the wailing a cappella gospel "Beautiful Hills of Galilee": in every note, her strong, authentic character is undeniable. --Roy Kasten
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