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Protest and folksinger Hazel Dickens was raised the eighth of 11 kids in a big, poor mining family members in Western Virginia, and she used components of nation and bluegrass to pass on truth on the subject of two causes near her center: the plight of nonunionized mineworkers and feminism, …
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The child of trained classical music artists, Alice Gerrard didn’t grow up with bluegrass or folk music. Her first musical remembrances are of performing along with family and friends round the family room piano. Gerrard’s albums with Western Virginia-born folksinger Hazel Dickens, nevertheless, rank being among the most important recordings …
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