Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, the duo's 1976 Rounder Records release, is one of the most important documents of women's voices in old-time and bluegrass music and a significant artifact of both the folk revival and early feminist cultural expression. Dickens, from a West Virginia coal mining family, and Gerrard found in their collaboration a common ground of mountain vocal tradition and social consciousness. 'Working Girl Blues' and 'Banjo Picking Girl' address working-class experience and female identity with a directness unusual in commercial country or bluegrass contexts of the period. Their influence on subsequent generations of women in acoustic music has been substantial.
Tracklist
- 1 Let That Liar Alone 3:33
- 2 When I Loved You 3:43
- 3 Working Girl Blues 3:21
- 4 West Virginia My Home 3:39
- 5 Mama's Gonna Stay 2:49
- 6 Montana Cowboy 2:19
- 7 Mean Papa Blues 3:09
- 8 Nice Like That 2:41
- 9 Mary Johnson 3:10
- 10 Ramblin' Woman 3:08
- 11 Beaufort County Jail 3:02
- 12 Banjo Picking Girl 3:06
- 13 James Alley Blues 2:33
- 14 True Life Blues 2:36