Description
DESCRIPTION
The soaring harmonies and driving string-band sound of Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard shattered the glass ceiling of male-dominated bluegrass in the 1960s. Hazel and Alice's influence on music - and not just roots music - is hard to overstate. They've been acknowledged by artists as diverse as country superstars Naomi and Wynonna Judd, champion flat-picker Molly Tuttle, and proto-feminist punk rocker Kathleen Hanna. Their steadfast devotion to their own hard-hitting style inspired generations of women in bluegrass.
Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition collects all the songs from Hazel and Alice's two groundbreaking Folkways albums, and a previously unreleased bonus track, all remastered by their original producer Peter Siegel. They are joined on these recordings by such bluegrass legends as Chubby Wise and David Grisman. The CD booklet includes an expanded set of essays by Hazel, Alice, Laurie Lewis, and Peter Siegel, as well as iconic photographs by John Cohen and Carl Fleischhauer.
TracksCredits
1 I Just Got Wise
2 Walkin' in My Sleep
3 The One I Love Is Gone
4 Weary Lonesome Blues
5 Long Black Veil
6 Cowboy Jim
7 Memories of Mother and Dad
8 Sugar Tree Stomp
9 Mommy Please Stay Home with Me
10 Gabriel's Call
11 Coal Miner's Blues
12 Difficult Run
13 Who's That Knocking?
14 A Tiny Broken Heart
15 Can't You Hear Me Calling?
16 Darling Nellie Across the Sea
17 Won't You Come and Sing for Me?
18 Lee Highway Blues
19 A Distant Land to Roam
20 Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar
21 Take Me Back to Tulsa
22 They're at Rest Together (T.B. Blues)
23 John Henry
24 Just Another Broken Heart
25 Train on the Island
26 Lover's Return
27 I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling
28 Childish Love
