Hazel Dickens - It's Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song
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Artist: Hazel DickensEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2000-08-08
Music Label: Rounder Select
Soundtracks:
- You'll Get No More Of Me
- A Few Old Memories
- Do Memories Haunt You?
- Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
- Hills Of Home
- Don't Bother To Cry
- It's Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song
- Only A Hobo
- Will Jesus Wash The Bloodstains From Your Hands?
- California Cottonfields
- Play Us A Waltz
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Music Review: Our Lady Of The Mountain
Rating: 5 Stars
Recently I have been "running the table" on the mountain music genre. From the pioneer work of the venerable Carter Family through to Ralph Stanley and on to the `revival' brought forth in the early part of this decade by such movies as "Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "Songcatcher" I have paid more than passing tribute to this quintessential American musical form, complete with fiddle, mandolin and lonely Saturday nights out in the hills and hollows of Appalachia and other rural environs. I have, thus, pretty much exhausted the milieu, right? Wrong. No homage to the modern mountain music scene can be complete with out paying tribute to the work of singer/songwriter Hazel Dickens (and at times musical companion Alice Gerrard, among others).
There was time when, if one was given a choice, the name Hazel Dickens would be the first to come up when naming the most well known voice of the modern mountain music tradition. Her voice spoke of the hardships of the rural life, the trials and tribulations of trying to eke out an existence on some hard scrabble rocky farmland or, more likely, in the coals mines or textiles factories that dominated that landscape for much of the second half of the 20th century. That was the pure, almost primordial voice that spoke of the sorrows of hill life, but also the joys of coming to terms with a very personal (and, apparently) angry god by way of singing away those working women blues, and you can add in a few tunes for those hard-bitten farmers and coals miners as well.
So, needless to say, this little Rounder CD from 1987 is filled with original work and covers on just those subjects mentioned above. From a cover of Bob Dylan's "Only A Hobo" to the classic "Hills Of Home" and on to the necessary religious- themed "Will Jesus Wash The Bloodstains From Your Hands" this is what mountain music is like when it is done right. Listen and see if you agree.
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