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 ...
Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard were steeped in folk, bluegrass,, a, d country tradition when they released their first album in 1965. Between the duo’s commanding approach to the music and their ...
Alice Gerrard has been a musician, researcher, publisher, and advocate for old-time music for much of her life. She's best known for performing and recording bluegrass and country with West Virginian, ...
Alice Gerrard’s “No Never No” is based on a song she found in a songbook at a thrift shop. Alice Gerrard plays “No Never No,” which is based on a tune she found in a songbook at a thrift shop. She and ...
A little more than a decade ago, Alice Gerrard received an invitation to perform at a fiddle camp in Washington state. “Should I bring an older musician with me?” Gerrard, 76 at the time, asked her ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This fall, Folkways reissued the first two LPs by the groundbreaking bluegrass duo of Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard. In celebration of these ...
WASHINGTON — Hazel Dickens, a folk singer and bluegrass musician who advocated for coal miners, has died at age 75. Dickens died Friday morning at a Washington hospice of complications from ...
Folk legend Alice Gerrard discusses studying, playing and preserving American folk music. Folk music legend Alice Gerrard is one of the foremost historians and archivists of the genre. In this ...
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