April 22, 2011(2011-04-22) (aged 85) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Genres
Bluegrass, folk music
Instrument(s)
Vocals, double bass, guitar
Labels
Rounder, Folkways
Resting place
Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Princeton, West Virginia
Musical artist
Hazel Jane Dickens (June 1, 1925[a] – April 22, 2011) was an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, double bassist and guitarist. Her music was characterized not only by her high, lonesome singing style, but also by her provocative pro-union, feminist songs. Cultural blogger John Pietaro noted that "Dickens didn’t just sing the anthems of labor, she lived them and her place on many a picket line, staring down gunfire and goon squads, embedded her into the cause." The New York Times extolled her as "a clarion-voiced advocate for coal miners and working people and a pioneer among women in bluegrass music." With Alice Gerrard, Dickens was one of the first women to record a bluegrass album. She was posthumously inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame alongside Gerrard in 2017.[1]
Dickens was known for her activism on behalf of non-unionized mineworkers
^"The 2017 IBMA Award Winners". The Bluegrass Situation. September 29, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2024.
Hazel Jane Dickens (June 1, 1925[a] – April 22, 2011) was an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, double bassist and guitarist. Her music was characterized...
player. She performed as part of a duo with HazelDickens, and as part of The Strange Creek Singers (with Dickens, Mike Seeger, Tracy Schwarz, and Lamar Grier)...
prowess. She has cited Laurie Lewis, Kathy Kallick, Alison Krauss and HazelDickens as role models. In 2017, Tuttle was the first woman to win the International...
James Cecil Dickens (December 19, 1920 – January 2, 2015), better known by his stage name Little Jimmy Dickens, was an American country music singer and...
cover songs, was set for release on November 20, 2020. As well as the HazelDickens title track, she also tackled Nina Simone's Mississippi Goddamn, Kris...
frequently works on John Sayles' films. West Virginia bluegrass singer HazelDickens sings the film's title track, "Fire in the Hole", and appears in the...
Kay Adams as Barn Band – Banjo Bobby McMillon as Singer at Barn Dance HazelDickens as Singer at Barn Dance Andrea Powell as Josie Moore Danny Nelson as...
One of the most well-known bluegrass musicians in Baltimore was HazelDickens. Dickens was born in Montcalm, West Virginia in 1925 and migrated to Baltimore...
Retrieved July 2, 2020. Morris, Edward (November 12, 2007). "Little Jimmy Dickens Joins West Virginia Music Hall of Fame". CMT.com. Country Music Television...
thereafter. From the start, Hellman most wanted HazelDickens to perform at the festival but Dickens, who was known for political songs about workers'...
her twang, garnering comparisons to musicians such as Cline, Lynn, HazelDickens, Tanya Tucker, and Dolly Parton.[citation needed] The title track was...
O'Connell, and done much work as a session musician with Béla Fleck, HazelDickens, Mel Tillis, and Randy Travis, among others. He has released several...
Darin, Richie Havens, The Kingston Trio, Neil Young, Kenny Rogers, HazelDickens, Florence and the Machine, Kathy Mattea, Nancy Sinatra, and Elvis Presley...
The other people in Strange Creek Singers were bass player and singer HazelDickens and banjo player Lamar Grier. Mike sang and played guitar, banjo, fiddle...
in 1977–78. He also had a recurring role in I'm Dickens, He's Fenster as Myron Bannister, Dickens & Fenster's boss; and appeared on The Cara Williams...
October 9, 2020 – via Google Books. Dickens, Hazel (2008). Working girl blues : the life and music of HazelDickens. Urbana: University of Illinois Press...
performed in duos with Jerry Garcia, Andy Statman, Martin Taylor, HazelDickens and Alice Gerrard, John Sebastian, Tony Rice, and played in the psychedelic...
provided musical support for Buzz Busby. Connell has recorded with HazelDickens, and toured with her in 1992. In 1993, Joe Wilson organized the "Masters...
world, and in the early 70s released albums by HazelDickens and Alice Gerrard, who recorded as Hazel & Alice, and Ola Belle Reed. By 1974, Rounder had...
on his 1976 record Lasso from El Paso. The song was also covered by HazelDickens on her 1983 bluegrass album From the Sweat of my Brow. Kris Kristofferson...
Hall of Fame Class of 2007 Leon “Chu” Berry George Crumb HazelDickens Little Jimmy Dickens Johnnie Johnson Clark Kessinger Molly O'Day Blind Alfred Reed...
Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jesse Fuller, Tony Furtado, Alice Gerrard and HazelDickens, Bob Gibson, Lloyd Green, David Grisman, the Gun Club, Woody Guthrie...
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