Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard - Hazel & Alice

Title: Hazel & Alice Artist: Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard Release Date: 5/1973 Label: Rounder Duration: 45:30 UPC: 011661002722 Genre: Folk Styles: Old-Timey, Traditional Country, Singer/Songwriter, String Bands, Close Harmony, Appalachian Folk, Neo-Traditional Folk Moods: Bittersweet, Melancholy, Organic, Plaintive, Reflective, Sad, Amiable/Good-Natured, Wistful, Earnest, Earthy Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 6 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Mining Camp Blues
2. Hello Stranger
3. The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia
4. A Few More Years
5. Two Soldiers
6. The Sweetest Gift, a Mother's Smile
7. Tomorrow I'll Be Gone
8. My Better Years
9. Custom Made Woman Blues
10. Don't Put Her Down, You Helped Put Her There
11. You Gave Me a Song
12. Pretty Bird
13. Gallop to Kansas [Instrumental]

Year Type Label Catalog # 1995 CD Rounder 0027

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Although Dickens and Gerrard had recorded a couple of albums as a duo in the mid-1960s, those were more traditional-minded bluegrass recordings than this 1973 effort. Several of the songs documented women's experiences in personal terms that struck a chord in many listeners involved in the women's movement, a constituency that the performers were not consciously addressing and somewhat surprised (though pleased) to reach. In fact, about half of this was devoted to traditional numbers by the likes of the Carter Family and Wilma Lee Cooper, but the original numbers brought a still-rare feminist viewpoint to folk and bluegrass music, particularly Dickens' "Don't Put Her Down, You Helped Put Her There." The songs make their points about women's struggles without being doctrinaire; the vocals (both solo and harmony) are impassioned, particularly on the Dickens a cappella showcase "Pretty Bird," and the musicianship appropriately spare. The CD reissue features extensive historical liner notes and track-by-track commentary by country music authority Charles Wolfe. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Name Credits Alice Gerrard Guitar, Performer, Arranger, Harmony, Vocals, Banjo, Harmony Vocals, Piano, Soloist, Autoharp, Producer Alvin Rosenbaum Photography Buddy Charlton Pedal Steel Carl Nelson Piano, Fiddle Charles K. Wolfe Liner Notes Dale Appleman Cover Design David Gahr Photography Dr. Toby Mountain Mastering Hazel Dickens Soloist, Vocals, Tenor (Vocal), Bass, Performer, Arranger, Producer, Main Performer, Guitar Kenny Kosek Fiddle Lamar Grier Banjo Mike Seegar Bass, Guitar, Banjo, Fiddle, Mandolin Mike Seeger Mandolin, Fiddle, Harmonica, Engineer, Bass, Guitar Nancy Given Design Naomi Judd Liner Notes Richard Crooks Drums Roger Mason Bass Tom Gray Bass Tracy Schwarz Dobro, Guitar, Fiddle