“He’s had more hard luck than most men could stand/ The mines was his first love but never his friend,” opens “Black Lung,” a tune penned by West Virginia bluegrass singer Hazel Dickens in 1969. In ...

So one by one we all left home to change our way of life. . . . You gave me a song of a place that I call home A song of now, a song of then, a song of yet to come. —“You Gave Me a Song” (words and ...

Musician Hazel Dickens (June 1, 1935-April 22, 2011) was born in Mercer County, the eighth of 11 children. She was a pioneering old-time and bluegrass musician, known for preserving the traditional ...

"Civilization is spread more by singing than anything else," Woody Guthrie once wrote, "because whole big bunches can sing a particular song where not every man can join in on the conversation." A ...

John Cloyd Miller, a professor at Warren Wilson College and member of renowned local band Zoe & Cloyd, has won first prize in the prestigious Hazel Dickens Songwriting Contest. His winning song ...