Hazel Dickens - Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People
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Artist: Hazel DickensEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2009-09-03
Music Label: Rounder
Soundtracks:
- Busted
- Aragon Mill
- Old Calloused Hands
- Scraps From Your Table
- Out Among the Stars
- West Virginia My Home
- Tomorrow's Already Lost
- Lonesome Pine Special
- Lost Patterns
- Beautiful Hills of Gallilee
- Rocking Chair Blues
- They'll Never Keep Us Down
Music reviews of Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People
Music Review: Beautiful beyond compare...
Rating: 5 Stars
I feel incompetent in reviewing this music. There's truly nothing I can write that can do justice to Hazel Dickens, still, there's something to be said for the attempt... Rounder rereleased this in the late-90s I believe, and the world is all the better for it. Whether you're a fan of bluegrass, appalachian old-time music, protest folk or even country. There are shades of gospel in her vocal stylings (comparable to Ralph Stanley's, I feel), which makes sense as she grew up singing in the unacompanied style of the (early) Baptist church. Hazel's style can't simply be relegated into any one of those categories: she transmuted all she heard and saw and felt into a style that was unique to her. I've never heard anything like it.
Truth be told, I'm not an afficiando of any of the afore-mentioned musical genres. But I know what I love and I know damn good music when I hear it. This was Hazel Dickens' first solo release for Rounder around 1980 (?) or so. Along with her, "It's Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song," this is some of the most poignant and marvelous music out there, regardless of the style.
Even despite the dark content of her music and her poetic ability at describing scenes and sentiments, there is still much joy all over these songs. She transmutes an honest sense loss and betrayal into something that rises and flies...
5 stars and then some. Just listen to the audio samples if you don't believe all us 5 star-ers...
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