Hazel and Alice, the 1973 Rounder Records album by Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, is among the most consequential recordings in the history of women in bluegrass. Dickens's raw, untempered alto voice, shaped by the hardship and faith of southern working-class life, anchors songs like 'The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia' with an emotional directness that no amount of studio polish could replicate. 'Hello Stranger' recalls the Carter Family tradition that Dickens and Gerrard had absorbed deeply. The album made an explicit argument that women's experience and women's voices had always been central to mountain music.
Tracklist
- 1 Mining Camp Blues 3:25
- 2 Hello Stranger Source Recording 3:12
- 3 The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia Source Recording 3:24
- 4 A Few More Years Shall Roll 4:32
- 5 Two Soldiers alt version 2:57
- 6 The Sweetest Gift A Mother's Smile 3:25
- 7 Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone alt version 2:36
- 8 My Better Years Source Recording 3:18
- 9 Custom Made Woman Blues 3:14
- 10 Don't Put Her Down You Helped Put Her There 3:48
- 11 You Gave Me A Song 3:21
- 12 Pretty Bird 4:24
- 13 Gallop To Kansas 1:43
