Heart of a Singer is a Hazel Dickens album released on Rounder CD 0443, featuring the West Virginia-born singer alongside Carol Elizabeth Jones, Ginny Hawker, Dudley Connell, Pete Kennedy, Barry Mitterhoff, and Marshall Wilborn. Dickens, a pioneering female voice in bluegrass who had helped reshape perceptions of what the genre could say and who it could speak to, delivers a programme of traditional and contemporary material with the raw emotional authority that made her unique among her peers. The album draws on the old-time, gospel, and labour-conscious traditions Dickens had absorbed growing up in a mining family, placing her voice in an acoustic context that suits its unvarnished power. It stands as a significant document from one of American roots music's most essential and uncompromising artists.
Tracklist
- 1 If Wishes Were Horses 2:36
- 2 Silver Tongue And Gold Plated Lies 3:27
- 3 Sad Situation 2:29
- 4 True Life Blues alt version 2:48
- 5 Lonesome Wind Blues alt version 3:10
- 6 Pardon Me 2:46
- 7 Old River 3:00
- 8 You Tried To Ruin My Name 2:29
- 9 I Can’t Find Your Love Anymore Source Recording 2:36
- 10 Just Like Rain 2:16
- 11 Mama’s Hand alt version 4:14
- 12 Every Time You Say Goodbye 3:18
- 13 Blue 2:41
- 14 Time Is Winding Up 4:18
- 15 Blow, Big Wind 2:54
- 16 Will There Be Any Stars alt version 3:14
- 17 The Last Old Shovel 2:22
- 18 Coming Down From God 2:44
- 19 Eight More Miles - Live 2:44
