Hazel Dickens - By the Sweat of My Brow
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Artist: Hazel DickensEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2009-09-03
Music Label: Rounder
Soundtracks:
- Beyond The River Bend
- Only The Lonely - Hazel Dickens
- By The Sweat Of My Brow - Hazel Dickens
- Mama's Hand
- Little Lenaldo
- Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again?
- Go Away With Me
- Your Greedy Heart
- Scars From An Old Love
- Ballad Of Ira Hayes, The
- Old And In The Way
- Here Today And Gone Tomorrow - Hazel Dickens
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Music Review: Old time music with a modern edge.
Rating: 5 Stars
After her break up with her singing partner Alice Gerrard, Hazel Dickens made three wonderful solo-albums for Rounder. The first, "Hard Hitting Song For Hard Hit People", contained a surprisingly wide range of musical styles, from hard honky tonk laments to uptempo bluegrass and slow folk songs, all focusing on the plight of the working man. As the title, "By The Sweat Of My Brow" implies, that theme was continued in this, her second solo record. The songs include a cover of James Talley's working class anthem "Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again", the extremely beautiful ballad "Mama's Hand" and "Little Lenaldo" on the subject of child labor.) The music is less varied this time, focusing on pure, acoustic mountain music or old time country. But we get some sad love songs as well, all aching with loneliness ("Beyond The River Bend", "Only The Lonely" and "Scars From An Old Love".) Peter La Farge's "Ballad Of Ira Hayes" is reworked into a bluegrass number. Musically this record is the logical step between her first and third solo work, "It's Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song", which was even more bluegrass-oriented. I love all three records (as well as all her earlier duo-work with Alice) but this record might actually be the hardest one to appreciate for the first-time listner, so I'd recommend you check out "Hard Hitting Songs" first. Hazel has a strong voice, full of character, and some might find that they may need some time to get used to it, but once you do, there's hardly anything more beautiful in country music. Or more heartfelt.
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Hazel Dickens gets instrumental support from the Johnson Mountain Boys and others on this 1984 release.This product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
As folk music became increasingly more polite and overly intellectual in the 1980s, Hazel Dickens continued to make honest, heartbreaking, piercing music that was anything but genteel. On 1983's By the Sweat of My Brow, the second of her three 1980s Rounder solo albums, she delivers six typically moving and plainspoken originals plus a variety of apt covers such as Johnny Cash's "Ballad of Ira Hayes" (done here in a positively jolly arrangement), James Talley's "Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again?" and the Browns' "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow," a tune that the Louvin Brothers once recorded. Dickens's uncompromising voice is as real and sad and hopeful as the subject matter. --Marc Greilsamer
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