Artist: Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #54 Nov-Dec 2004
Alice Gerrard – Calling Me Home: Songs Of Love And Loss
Depending on when one became aware of Alice Gerrard, she might be thought of as a bluegrass singer and guitar player, a singer-songwriter who crafted songs that blended country sensibility with feminism, and more lately, an avid supporter and performer of old-time string band music. Not surprisingly, Calling Me Home revisits many of these diverse [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #29 Sept-Oct 2000
Hazel Dickens – It’s Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song
To date, It’s Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song is Hazel Dickens’ last solo album, and though its two predecessors are good and important records, it’s also probably the finest of the three. Recorded in late 1986 in Nashville and originally released on Rounder in 1987, the album features an especially strong collection [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #20 March-April 1999
Hazel Dickens – Coal Miner’s Sister
“People said that hearing Delia Byrd sing was like hearing heartbreak in a whole new key. Her voice could make you sweat, make you move, make you want to lift your hands and pull justice out of the air.” – Dorothy Allison, Cavedweller These lines, taken from Allison’s latest novel, describe a fictional rock ‘n’ [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #18 Nov-Dec 1998
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard – Self-Titled
Since the folk revival of the 1950s, no two women have exerted as much influence within bluegrass and old-timey circles as Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard. As pickers, producers, singers, arrangers, and leaders of their own string band, the duo — who performed and recorded together from 1962 to 1975 — inspired a whole generation [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #10 July-Aug 1997
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard – Julia Morgan Theater (Berkeley, CA)
“We heard the same lonesomeness, soul, hair-raising chill bumps, or whatever you want to call it…” –Alice Gerrard, on her musical bond with Hazel Dickens One side of the flyer for Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard’s reunion tour advertised another performance: All-Star Women of Contemporary Bluegrass, with singing instrumentalists Laurie Lewis and Kathy Kallick. In [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #1 Fall 1995
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard – Hazel and Alice
Released in 1976 and available for the first time on compact disc, Hazel and Alice is an old-time country music album that ranges from blues to hymns to a capella ballads and has influenced artists from Emmylou Harris to Bob Dylan to the Judds. Hazel and Alice originally were a bluegrass duo, but by 1973, [...]
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