Celebrating the Life and Music of an American Legend, Hazel Dickens
(June 1, 1935 - April 22, 2011)
Prescription Bluegrass host, Brian McNeal announced today that a special radio program will air on the Prescription Bluegrass family of affiliate stations to commemorate the life and music of Hazel Dickens. The program will be broadcast on various days and times depending upon individual station programming choices the week of April 30 - May 6, 2011.
Hazel Dickens was a an American Treasure bridging social, cultural economical and political boundaries with her music and poetry. It was Hazel Dickens who said "Just playing Bluegrass is being political". She was a songwriter with a message and a voice for the underdog in the coal mining industry as well as speaking out for women in general.
On April 22, 2011, after being hospitalized for pneumonia complications, in the dead of night in the still and the quiet ...she ...slipped away like a bird in flight *
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Hazel Dickens Special Play List
- Hazel Dickens / The Rebel Girl
- Lynn Morris // You'll Get No More of Me
- Hazel Dickens / I Can't Find Your Love Anymore
- Janet McGarry // Your Greedy Heart
- Hazel Dickens /// Love Me or Leave Me Alone
- Hazel Dickens / West Virginia My Home
- Hazel Dickens // Hills of Home
- Hazel Dickens w/ the Johnson Mountain Boys / Here Today and Gone Tomorrow
- James King // Old River
- Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard /// True Life Blues
- Phyllis Boyens w/ Hazel Dickens / Dreams of A Miner's Child
- The Johnson Mountain Boys // My Better Years
- Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard /// Montana Cowboy
- The Dry Branch Fire Squad //// Mount Zion's Lofty Heights
*Line quoted from West Virginia My Home - Hazel Dickens
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