Hazel Dickens amp Alice Gerrard - Pioneering Women of Bluegrass (26 tracks) +Album Reviews

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Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard
Pioneering Women of Bluegrass
Genres: Country, Folk, International Music, Pop

Track Listings (26) - Disc #1
1. TB Blues (Or 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 Calling
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

CD Details

All Artists: Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard
Title: Pioneering Women of Bluegrass
Members Wishing: 7
Total Copies: 0
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Original Release Date: 5/21/1996
Release Date: 5/21/1996
Genres: Country, Folk, International Music, Pop
Styles: Bluegrass, Classic Country, Traditional Folk, North America, Appalachian
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 093074006528

Synopsis

Album Description

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

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CD Reviews

If you have ears get this cd

Tony Thomas | SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FL USA | 06/02/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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"

Wonderful

Tony Thomas | 04/25/1999

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Hazel and Alice are legendary. The song The One I Love Is Gone alone is worth the price of the CD. It was written and given to them by Bill Monroe, who then taught them how to sing harmony in a minor key. Hazel's voice is one of the most truthful and powerful in bluegrass."

This is a beautiful CD.

Tribe | Toledo, Ohio United States | 04/29/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Hazel Dickens sends shivers down my spine with her amazing "high lonesome" singing. Who ever came up with the nonsense notion that women can't do bluegrass? This has to be one of the top ten bluegrass collections ever. Hazel & Alice simply rock. Their version of "Long Black Veil" is THE standard against which all other versions of this song have to stand up against. Life is not the same after hearing this album."

One of the best albums of all time

Quarter Irish | Rockville MD | 10/12/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Listening to this album will make anyone a convert to bluegrass. The range of sons is incredible, from rollicking upbeat tunes to mournful dirges. Hazel and Alice's voices blend together magnificently in harmony. This sounds so great that it is unbelievable that it was recorded on a minmal shoestring in the mid 1960s, in bare-bones conditions with borrowed old equipment, because it sounds so perfect.If I had to recommend just one album to anyone, it would be this one.Hazel Dickens has the most purely emotional singing voice I've ever heard, even better than Judy Garland or Edith Piaf. Her range can quickly go from utterly raw to softly sweet. I have specified in my will that a song from this album be played at my memorial service."

This is excellent and will convert nonbelievers to Bluegrass

rkchin | new york city | 11/21/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Women have always been a part of Bluegrass music, but rarely in the limelight. Hazel Dickens, and Alice Gerrard are, in a way, Pioneering Women of Bluegrass for fronting a band. The album is a wonderful compilation of traditional music covering songs by the Carter Family, Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe, as well as Hazel and Alice themselves. Their recordings done 1963-1964 have been restored, and released here on the Smithsonian Folkways label.

The album features many classics such as Darling Nellie, a story of a loved one who died without saying goodbye. In the song, fiery banjo plucking combined with slow violin help create an image of a turbulent thunderstorm, one perfect for telling ghost stories.

Another favorite is TB Blues a slow, old-timey song about a boy who dearly loved a girl, but the girl had "consumption", or tuberculosis. She died, so did the boy. The way the banjo plays (what is it called when you rapidly rub back and forth on a chord?) gives the song very lonesome feel. Alice and Hazel both sing in high voice lessening the stark reality of the lyrics.

For those who like traditional music, should have Alice and Hazel in their collection. rkchin."