Working Girl Blues (20 page)

Don't Bother to Cry****

Hills of Home****

Pretty Bird. New recording made in 1987.

Only the Lonely***

Coal Tattoo*****

Little Lenaldo***

Old Calloused Hands**

Scars from an Old Love***

You'll Get No More of Me****

Mama's Hand***

Working Girl Blues*

West Virginia My Home**

Play Us a Waltz****

Don't Mourn—Organize! Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill.
Smithsonian/Folkways 20026. Released 1990. Hazel Dickens appears on one track.

The Rebel Girl. Hazel Dickens, vocal; Tom Adams, banjo; Dudley Connell, guitar; David McLaughlin, fiddle, mandolin; Marshall
Wilborn, bass. Reissued on Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways, Smithsonian/Folkways 40092, 2002.

Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys: Live Recordings 1956–1969, Off the Record,
Vol. 1. Smithsonian/Folkways 40063. Released 1993. Hazel Dickens appears on one track.

Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms. Bill Monroe, vocal, mandolin. Accompanied by Hazel Dickens, vocal; Richard Greene, fiddle; Tex Logan, fiddle; Peter Rowan, guitar.

Third Annual Farewell Reunion.
Rounder 0313. Released 1994. Mike Seeger and friends. Hazel Dickens appears on one track.

They're at Rest Together. Mike Seeger, vocal, mandolin; Hazel Dickens, vocal, guitar; Tom Gray, bass.

Nashville at Newport.
Vanguard 77016. Released 1995. Various artists. Hazel Dickens appears on three tracks. Hazel Dickens, vocal, bass; Alice Gerrard, vocal, guitar. Accompanied by David Grisman, mandolin; Smiley Hobbs, banjo; Tex Logan, fiddle.

Walking in My Sleep

A Tiny Broken Heart

The One I Love Is Gone

Pioneering Women of Bluegrass.
Smithsonian/Folkways 40065. Released 1997. Reissued from
Who's That Knocking?,
Folkways 31055, and
Won't You Come and Sing for Me?,
Folkways 31034. Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard, and various other artists.

Coal Mining Women.
Rounder 4025. Released 1987. Various artists. Hazel Dickens appears on the following tracks reissued from
Come All You Coal Miners,
Rounder 4005(*) and
They'll Never Keep Us Down,
Rounder 4012(**).

Coal Mining Woman (**)

The Yablonski Murder(*)

Coal Miner's Grave(**)

Black Lung(*)

Mannington Mine Disaster(*)

Clay County Miner(*)

Clara Sullivan's Letter. New Recording. Hazel Dickens, unaccompanied vocal.

Coat Tattoo. New recording. Hazel Dickens, vocal, accompanied by Jerry Douglas, Dobro; Pat Enright, guitar; Bela Fleck, banjo; Mark Hembree, bass; Blaine Sprouse, fiddle; Roland White, mandolin.

Songs of the Louvin Brothers.
Rounder 7034. Released 1997. Hazel Dickens with the Johnson Mountain Boys.

Here Today and Gone Tomorrow

Heart of a Singer.
Rounder 0443, CS 0443. Released 1998. Hazel Dickens, Carol Elizabeth Jones, and Ginny Hawker, vocals. Accompanied variously by Dudley Connell, guitar; Pete Kennedy, guitar; Barry Mitterhoff, mandolin; Bruce Molsky, banjo, guitar; Lynn Morris, banjo; Ron Stewart, banjo, fiddle, mandolin; Marshall Wilborn, bass.

Forsaken Lover

Lay Me to Rest

Not a Word of That Be Said. Reissued on
Mountain Journey: Stars of Old Time Music,
Rounder 0546, 2005.

Old Memories Mean Nothing to Me

Love Me or Leave Me Alone. Reissued
on O Sister 2: A Women's Bluegrass Collection,
Rounder 0506, 2002.

Times Are Not What They Used to Be. Reissued on
O Sister 2: A Women's Bluegrass Collection,
Rounder 0506, 2002;
Mountain Journey: Stars of Old Time Music,
Rounder 0546, 2005.

Faded Pressed Rose. Reissued on
The Angels Are Singing: A Women's Bluegrass Gospel Collection,
Rounder 0485, 2002.

Jealous Heart

Old River. Reissued on
O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection,
Rounder 0499, 2001.

I Can't Find Your Love Anymore. Reissued on O
Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection,
Rounder 0499, 2001.

Let Me Go

Time Is Winding Up

Comin' Down from God. Reissued on O
Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection,
Rounder 0499, 2001.

Songcatcher.
Vanguard Combustion 79586–2. Released 2001. Various artists. Hazel Dickens appears on one track.

Conversation with Death. Hazel Dickens, vocal. Two other singers, David Patrick Kelly and Bobby McMillon, also sang versions of the song.

Index

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Acuff, Roy

A Few Old Memories
(Rounder CD)

Alice Tully Hall

“An Evening with Hazel Dickens” (tribute at San Francisco State University)

Anthology of American Folk Music,

Appalachian Festival (Cincinnati)

Appalshop Films

Asch, Moe

Baker, Bobby

Balfa, Dewey

Baltimore

“Beautiful Hills of Galilee,”

Black Lung disease

“Black Lung” (song)

Bluegrass Music in Baltimore

Blue Jay (Baltimore honky tonk)

Blue Sky Boys

Boggs, Dock

Boyens, Phyllis

Boyle, Tony

Bradley, Dale Ann

Bragg, Billy

Brandywine Folk Festival

Bratmobile

Brislin, Kate

Bumgardner, Ed

By the Sweat of My Brow (Rounder LP)

Calgary Festival (Canada)

Callahan Brothers

“Can the Circle Be Unbroken,”

Carawan, Guy

Carter, Maybelle, guitar style

Carter, President Jimmy

Carter Family

Cash, Johnny

“Clay County Miner,”

Coal Industry, mechanization

Coal Mine Health and Safety Act

Coal-Mining Songs Symposia

Coal Mining Women
(Rounder LP)

Cohen, Joe

“Cold-Blooded Murder,”

Come All You Coal Miners,

Connell, Dudley

Cooke, Dorothy Anne,
See also
Anne Romaine

Country Music Parks

Country Song Roundup,

Cousin Emmy (Joy May Carver)

“Cowboy Jim,”

Cozy Inn (Baltimore honky tonk)

Cronkite, Walter

“Crying Holy,”

“Custom-Made Woman Blues,”

Dickens, Arnold

Dickens, Charles

Dickens, Hazel Jane: affiliation with Rounder Records; awards and honors; birth; decision to perform music full time; distinguished performing venues; early music influences; influence of Primitive Baptist Church; marriage and divorce; membership in the Strange Creek Singers; membership with the Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project; mentorship of Alyse Taubman; migration to Baltimore; moving to Washington, D.C.; music in the Baltimore honky tonks; origins of her feminist songs; parents; performance in movie soundtracks; performances with Alice Gerrard; political and coal-mining songs; relationship with Mike Seeger; singing in
Harlan County, USA,

Dickens, Hillary N. (H. N.)

Dickens, Robert

Dickens, Sarah Aldora

Dickens, Thurman

Dickens, Velvie

Don't Mourn, Organize! Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill,

“Don't Put Her Down, You Helped Put Her There,”

Drayton, Michael

Dry Branch Fire Squad

Earle, Steve

Esquire,
article on Bluegrass

Estep, Francis F.

Estep, Maud

Evidence of Blood
(TV movie)

Exene

Feminist Songs and Audience

“Fire in the Hole,”

Folksong Society of Greater Boston

Folkways Records

Foshag, Willie

Foster, Jeremy

Freakwater

Friskics-Warren, Bill

“Gabriel's Call,”

Galax, Virginia

“The Gathering Storm,”

Gerrard, Alice

Gladden, Texas

Goble, D. H.

Grand Ole Opry,

Green, Archie

Grier, Lamar

Grisman, David

“Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah,”

Gunning, Sarah Ogan

Guthrie, Woody

Hard-Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People
(Rounder LP)

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival (Golden Gate Park)

Harlan County, USA,

Harris, Emmylou

Hawker, Ginny

Hazel and Alice, singing duo

Hazel and Alice
(Rounder LP)

“Hazel Dickens: A Life's Work” (Smithsonian Folk Festival Symposium)

Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard
(Rounder LP)

Hazeldine

Heart of a Singer
(Rounder CD)

Highlander Folk Center

“High on a Mountain,”

Holcomb, Roscoe

Hollis, Julia

Honky Tonks in Baltimore

Horse Creek Meeting (Clay County, Kentucky)

“I'd Die Before I'd Cry Over You,”

International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA)

Irwin, Ken

It's
Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song
(film documentary)

It's
Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song
(Rounder LP)

“It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels,”

“I've Endured,”

Jackson, Aunt Molly

Jennings, Waylon

Johnson Mountain Boys

Jones, Carol Elizabeth

Jones, George

Judds (Naomi and Wynonna)

Justice, Kay

“Keep on the Sunny Side,”

Kenny, Maxine

Kentucky Black Lung Association

King, James

Kopple, Barbara

Krauss, Alison

Kuykendall, Pete

Leadbelly

Ledford, Lily May

Leighton, Marian

Lewis, Laurie

“Little Margaret,”

Lomax, Alan

Lomax, John

Louvin Brothers

“Lover's Return,”

“Love's Farewell” (poem that inspired “You'll Get No More of Me”)

Macon, Uncle Dave

“Mannington Mine Disaster,”

“Man of Constant Sorrow,”

Matewan
(movie)

Menius, Art

Mercer County, West Virginia

“Midnight on the Stormy Deep,”

Mitterhoff, Barry

Monroe, Bill

Morris, Lynn

Mountain People's Rights

“My Better Years,”

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

National Folk Alliance

Nelson, Willie

New Riders of the Purple Sage

New River Ranch

New York Film Festival

Nowlin, Bill

Old Mexico Imports

Old Town School of Folk Music (Chicago)

“The One I Love Is Gone,”

“One Morning in May,”

Our Singing Country,

Owens, Don

Pickering, Mimi

Pike County Boys

Pittston Strike

Pneumoconiosis (Black Lung Disease)

“Pretty Bird,”

Primitive Baptists, fellowship among

Primitive Baptist Hymn Book,

Primitive Baptist Theology

Reagon, Bernice Johnson

“Rebel Girl,”

Reece, Florence

Reed, Ola Belle

Resettlement Administration

Rinzler, Kate

Rinzler, Ralph

Rittler, Dickie

Romaine, Anne

Romaine, Howard

Rounder Collective

Rounder Records

Sayles, John

Schwarz, Tracy

Seeger, Charles

Seeger, Marj

Seeger, Mike

Seeger, Pete

Seeger, Ruth Crawford

79 Club (Baltimore honky tonk)

Shanklin, Bob

Shapiro, Bruce

Shepherd College (West Virginia)

Shines, Johnny

Siegel, Peter

Smith, Curley

Smith, Harry

Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America (SPBGMA)

Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project

Spottswood, Richard

Stanley Brothers

Stearns Strike (Kentucky)

Stecher, Jody

Stoney Mountain Boys

Strange Creek Singers

Strip Mining

Sunset Park

“The Sweetest Gift, a Mother's Smile,”

Sweet Honey in the Rock

Symphony Singers

Taubman, Alyse

Taylor, Earl

“They'll Never Keep Us Down,”

Thomason, Ron

Tubb, Ernest

Twangfest (Pittsburgh)

United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)

Vancouver Folk Music Festival

Vincent, Rhonda

Watson, Doc

West Virginia Ramblers

“When I Can Read My Titles Clear,”

“Which Side Are You On,”

Who's That Knocking?

“Wildwood Flower,”

Wise, Chubby

Wolfe, Allison

Women's Songs

“Won't You Come and Sing for Me?

“Working Girl Blues,”

Workman, Nimrod

Yablonski, Jock

“Yablonski Murders,”

Hazel Dickens is an Appalachian singer and songwriter known for her powerful vocal style, superb musicianship, feminist country songs, union anthems, and blue-collar laments. She has performed widely in this country and abroad and has appeared on many recordings and in a number of films.

Bill C. Malone is the leading historian of country music, now retired as professor of history at Tulane University. He is the author of many books, including
Country Music, USA
and
Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class.

Only a Miner: Studies in Recorded Coal-Mining Songs
Archie Green

Great Day Coming: Folk Music and the American Left
R. Serge Denisoff