So one by one we all left home to change our way of life. . . . You gave me a song of a place that I call home A song of now, a song of then, a song of yet to come. —“You Gave Me a Song” (words and ...

Dickens and Gerrard were successful solo folk musicians who also shared an eclectic approach to music. A new album of previously unreleased recordings feature the pair "unvarnished" and "unplugged." ...

Alice Gerrard performs “Mary Johnson,” a song from the era of her collaboration with Hazel Dickens. In her epic and prolific career, Alice Gerrard is perhaps still best known for the music she made ...

To hear Alice Gerrard tell it, when she and her musical partner Hazel Dickens began singing together in the 1960s, they never imagined the revolutionary Hall-of-Fame career they were setting in motion ...

This fall, Folkways reissued the first two LPs by the groundbreaking bluegrass duo of Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard. In celebration of these reissues and in honor of the duo's legacy and cultural ...

With their unique harmonies, the bluegrass duo of Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard blazed trails for female folk singers in the 1960s and ‘70s. They were also civil rights activists who used their ...

A little more than a decade ago, Alice Gerrard received an invitation to perform at a fiddle camp in Washington state. “Should I bring an older musician with me?” Gerrard, 76 at the time, asked her ...

101 Mining Camp Blues / Hazel and Alice (Musical group), Alice Gerrard, Hazel Dickens. Guitar 102 Hello Stranger / Hazel and Alice (Musical group), Alice Gerrard, Hazel Dickens. Guitar 103 The Green ...

Six decades ago, the singer’s duo with Hazel Dickens revolutionized the genre. As their albums are reissued, she reflected on her unexpected life in folk music and what’s next. By Grayson Haver Currin ...