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Working girl blues : the life and music of Hazel Dickens

Hazel Dickens is an Appalachian singer and songwriter known for her superb musicianship, feminist country songs, union anthems, and blue-collar laments. Growing up in a West Virginia coal mining community, she drew on the mountain music and repertoire of her family and neighbors when establishing her own vibrant and powerful vocal style that is a trademark in old-time, bluegrass, and traditional country circles. Working Girl Blues presents forty original songs that Hazel Dickens wrote about coal mining, labor issues, personal relationships, and her life and family in Appalachia. Conveying sensitivity, determination, and feistiness, Dickens comments on each of her songs, explaining how she came to write them and what they meant and continue to mean to her. Bill C. Malone's introduction traces Dickens's life, musical career, and development as a songwriter, and the book features forty-one illustrations and a detailed discography of her commercial recordings
eBook, English, 2008
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2008
Biographies
1 online resource.
9780252090974, 9781283223843, 0252090977, 1283223848
809471478
Print version:
Hazel Dickens : a brief biography by Bill C. Malone
Songs and Memories by Hazel Dickens
Mama's hand
A few old memories
You'll get no more of me
West Virginia my home
My better years
Working girl blues
Scars from an old love
Lost patterns
Scraps from your table
Beyond the River Bend
Won't you come and sing for me
Only the lonely
Rambling woman
Your greedy heart
Don't put her down, you helped put her there
It's hard to tell the singer from the song
I love to sing the old songs
Old calloused hands
Rocking chair blues
Pretty bird
Mount Zion's lofty heights
Cowboy Jim
Little Lenaldo
Tomorrow's already lost
I can't find your love anymore
Hills of home
Old river
Will Jesus wash the bloodstains from your hands
They'll never keep us down
Mannington mine disaster
Coal miner's grave
Black lung
Coal mining woman
The Yablonski murder
Clay County miner
My heart's own love
America's poor
Freedom's disciple (working-class heroes)
The homeless
My love has left me
Discography (pages [87]-98) and index
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2012