Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969, the 2018 Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard release, compiles early live recordings from the duo's years on the Washington D.C. folk and bluegrass scene. Dickens and Gerrard were among the first women to claim full authorship within the bluegrass tradition, and their partnership, built on Dickens's hard-edged West Virginia vocal style and Gerrard's more folk-inflected approach, produced a sound that stood apart from the male-dominated ensembles around them. No Hard Times, the tracked selection, is representative of the duo's engagement with working-class and labor-movement themes that distinguished their repertoire from mainstream bluegrass of the period. These archival recordings document a formative chapter in both women's careers and in the broader folk-bluegrass crossover scene.
Tracklist
- 1 Bye Bye Love 2:51
- 2 Tell Me That You Love Me 2:33
- 3 Seven Year Blues 2:04
- 4 Cannonball Blues 2:08
- 5 This Litle Light of Mine alt version 1:57
- 6 James Alley Blues 4:23
- 7 Little Darling Pal of Mine alt version 2:26
- 8 Are You All Alone alt version 2:08
- 9 No One to Welcome Me Home 2:56
- 10 Let Me Fall 2:03
- 11 Will You Miss Me alt version 3:11
- 12 No Telephone in Heaven 2:39
- 13 I'll Wash Your Love from My Heart 1:48
- 14 No Hard Times Source Recording 3:02
- 15 Why Not Confess 2:02
- 16 Bound to Ride alt version 1:45
- 17 Sing Me Back Home alt version 3:24
- 18 The First Whippoorwill alt version 2:26
- 19 In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) - Bonus 2:56
