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American bluegrass musician, singer, and activist

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Sing Out! Radio Magazine
Episode 2373: 25-16 Two at a Time

Sing Out! Radio Magazine

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 58:30


The duo is one of the strong traditions in folk music, and on this program we'll present some pairs of musicians who play well with others. You'll hear Robin and Linda Williams, James Bryan and Carl Jones, Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, Sara and Maybelle Carter, and many more, from the past and recorded more recently. Duets in song and tune … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian FolkwaysJames Bryan & Carl Jones /”Belles of Blackville” / Two Pictures / MartinThe Two Man Gentlemen Band / “Two Star Motel” / Two at a Time / Bean ToneMouths of Babes / “Lock & Key” / Brighter in the Dark / Wide Awake MusicThe Mastersons / “You Could Be Wrong” / Transient Lullaby / Red HouseZoe & Cloyd / “Fast Air” / Eyes Brand New / Z & C RecordsSara & Maybelle Carter / “While the Band is Playing Dixie” / An Historic Reunion / KochFlatt & Scruggs / “My Saro Jane” / The Essential Flatt & Scruggs / ColumbiaThe Delmore Brothers / “Blues Stay Away From Me” / Freight Train Boogie / AceHazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / “Lover's Return” / Pioneering Women of Bluegrass / Smithsonian FolkwaysJames Bryan & Carl Jones /”Forty Drops” / Two Pictures / MartinAlasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas / “The Devil & the Gypsy” / Ports of Call / CulburnieBela Fleck & Abigail Washburn / “New South Africa” / Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn / RounderNathan Gourley & Laura Feddersen / “The Blackbird-The Road to Garrison” / Life is all Checkered / Self-producedRobin & Linda Williams / “They All Faded Away” / These Old Dark Hills / Red HouseTeddy Thompson & Kelly Jones / “Never Knew You Loved Me Too” / Little Windows / Cv 30Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast
"Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia"

The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2025 3:08


One of the best songs written about West Virginia in the past half century was created by a man who was nicknamed for a state two time zones away.Bruce “U. Utah” Phillips wrote “The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia” in 1971 while reflecting on a visit to the Mountain State years earlier."We were driving in an old car that had a bad leak in the radiator,” Phillips recalled in a story on his website. “We stopped every now and then in these hollers to get water and to talk to the people.“In one place, there was a woman about 50 years old who let us use her pump. I commented to her that down in the town, it seemed that everybody I ran into wanted to get out, wanted to go north or go west and find some decent work…."But, back in the hollers,” Phillips added, “it seemed like the people were rooted to the land, didn't want to go anywhere, even though there wasn't any work.”She gave him many reasons, some of which he didn't fathom, “but she gave me one I could understand, because I have a great affection for the mountains in my state, and I miss them when I spend a lot of time in the east. “She said to me, 'It's these hills. They keep you. And when they've got you, they won't let you go.' "Her comment inspired the key line in the chorus of the song that Phillips would later compose: The green rolling hills of West Virginia Are the nearest thing to heaven that I know. Though the times are sad and drear And I cannot linger here, They'll keep me and never let me go.The Hazel and Alice ContributionIn 1973, when Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard recorded their first album together, they wanted to include Utah Phillips' lovely ode to their home. However, they felt the song needed a better ending, one that offered not only a bit of hope, but also a call to join the fight to preserve those green rolling hills. They added a new last verse: Someday I'll go back to West Virginia, To the green rolling hills I love so well. Yes, someday I'll go home And I know I'll right the wrong. These troubled times will follow me no more.EmmyLou Steps UpEmmylou Harris, who recorded the song on her classic 1978 album Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town, said she loved how the song was about homesickness and displacement.But she added that it took on new meaning when she learned about the menace of mountaintop removal, decapitating hundreds of peaks and poisoning thousands of miles of streams in Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia and in her home state of Tennessee.“It seems like artists today, particularly country artists, tend to play it safe,” Harris said, “and I count myself in there. I've never been that comfortable with overtly political songs. But mountaintop removal is based on pure greed and it's doing such incredible damage.”That's why, she said, Phillips' stark tune so resonated with her.Our Take on the TuneFifty years ago, The Flood's dear friends H. David Holbrook, Bill Hoke and Susan Lewis formed the core of the best local string band, The Kentucky Foothill Ramblers, and, gee, but they taught everyone a slew of wonderful tunes.The group used to sing “Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia” at nearly every show. The Ramblers are long-gone now, but home recordings preserve a lot of the band's repertoire as performed at those parties where The Flood was born back in the ‘70s.Nowadays "Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia" is always on the playlist whenever Floodster Emerita Michelle Hoge is in the room, as she was one night last month.More West Virginia Tunes?Finally, if you'd like more of The Flood's Mountain State melodies, check out the playlist the guys put together a few years ago to celebrate West Virginia Day. Click the link below: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

Get Up in the Cool
Episode 447: Ellie Hakanson (Proto-Feminist Bluegrass Songs, John Hartford, and Hazel Dickens)

Get Up in the Cool

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2025 67:29


Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week's friend is Ellie Hakanson! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: * Not Soft Enough (John Hartford original) (0:47) * Scraps from Your Table (Hazel Dickens original) (20:42) * Say Darling Say (30:22) * I Love You Honey (Patsy Cline) (49:16) * January Waltz (Betse Ellis original) (1:03:07) * Bonus Track: Methodist Preacher New the new John Hartford Project album: Julia Belle! (https://www.johnhartford.com/product/julia-belle-the-john-hartford-fiddle-tune-project-vol-2/) Follow Missy Raines on Instagram for news about the new album (https://www.instagram.com/missyraines/) Follow Grasstime on Instagram for news about their new album (https://www.instagram.com/grasstimebluegrassband/) Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool) Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/get-up-in-the-cool) Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! (https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/) Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron (https://www.camerondewhitt.com/banjolessons) Visit Tall Poppy String Band's website (https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/) and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tallpoppystringband/)

Sing Out! Radio Magazine
Episode 2340: 24-35 Which Side Are You On?

Sing Out! Radio Magazine

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2024 58:30


There has been a decline in union representation over the decades across the U.S. Recently labor movements have regained some ground and are in the news nationally once again. This makes Labor Day more important than ever as we celebrate leaders who helped organize and provide for a better standard of living for American workers. We'll hear music used over the years that's often been intertwined with the labor movement. Listen for Paul Robeson, Hazel Dickens, the Seattle Labor Chorus, Florence Reese, Joe Glazer and others. Solidarity forever … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine. Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian FolkwaysJoel Mabus / “Speed the Plow” / Golden Willow Tree / FossilJames Carter & the Prisoners / “Po' Lazarus” / Oh Brother / Lost HighwaySeattle Labor Chorus / “There is Power in the Union” / Songs of Working People / Self-producedPaul Robeson / “Joe Hill” / Classic Labor Songs” / Smithsonian FolkwaysJohn McCutcheon / “Joe Hill's Last Will” / Joe Hill's Last Will / AppalseedPete Sutherland / “When My Grandmother Worked at the Mill” / A Clayfoot's Tale / EpactJohn O'Connor / “The Triangle Fire” / We Ain't Gonna Give it Back / Self-producedThe Byrds / “Deportee” / Ballad of Easy Rider / ColumbiaHazel Dickens / “Coal Tatoo” / Coal Mining Women / RounderJoel Mabus / “The Last of June” / Golden Willow Tree / FossilFlorence Reece-The Almanac Singers / “Which Side Are You On?” / Classic Labor Songs / Smithsonian FolkwaysVivian Nesbit & John Dillon / “Stitch and Sew” / Mother Jones in Heaven / Self-producedLinda Allen / “The Glass Ceiling” / Singing the News / October RosePeggy Seeger / “I Want to be an Engineer” / Period Pieces / TraditionNew Lost City Ramblers / “Join the CIO” / Songs frm the Depression / FolkwaysJoe Glaser / “Solidarity Forever” / Classic Labor Songs / Smithsonian FolkwaysPete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

Sing Out! Radio Magazine
Episode 2335: 24-30 The Mountain State

Sing Out! Radio Magazine

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2024 58:30


This week on the program, we feature music from The Mountain State. West Virginia has a rich musical heritage of both traditional and contemporary styles. We'll hear music from Tim O'Brien, Hazel Dickens, Jerry Douglas, Melvin Wine, Jesse Milnes & Emily Miller. Tune in to hear some great music from West Virginia … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian FolkwaysThe Modock Rounders / “Rye Straw” / Home Music / Buffalo SkinnerTim O'Brien / “Grandma's Hands” / Where the River Meets the Road / Howdy SkiesMollie O'Brien & Rich Moore / “Love Runner” / Love Runner / Remington RoadRuss Barenberg, Jerry Douglas & Edgar Meyer / “Big Sciota” / Skip, Hop & Wobble / Sugar HillKate Long / “Who'll Watch the Home Place” / Pieces of Heart / EdnaHeidi Muller & Bob Webb / “Elk River Blues-West Virginia Hills” / Seeing Things / CascadeBob Heyer / “Cherry River Line” / That Lonesome Road / Table RockMelvin Wine / “Yew Piney Mountain” / Classic Old-time Fiddle / Smithsonian FolkwaysDwight Diller / “Abe's Retreat” / Just Banjo '99 Yew Pine Mountain MusicThe Modock Rounders / “Jimmy Johnson” / Home Music / Buffalo SkinnerHazel Dickens / “West Virginia My Home” / Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People / RounderKathy Mattea / “Pretty Bird” / Pretty Bird / Captain PotatoAndy FitzGibbon / “Shanghai” / The New Young Fogies Volume 1 / Self-producedThe Critten Hollow String Band / “Going to the West” / Cowboys and Indians / Yodel Ay HeeJesse Milnes & Emily Miller / “Fun's All Over” / Deep End Sessions Vol 2 / Deep End SessionsAlice Gerrard & Kay Justice / “Too Late, Too Late” / Tear Down the Fences / KbellPete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

Recomendados de la semana en iVoox.com Semana del 5 al 11 de julio del 2021

Esta semana hemos querido reunir en el porche de RADIO CON BOTAS una docena de canciones de Americana que se han publicado hace pocos meses, escasas semanas o, incluso, no han visto la luz en el mercado. Pero todas tienen un nexo común: son versiones de temas atemporales desde las más diversas y eclácticas formas de la música popular. De esta forma, escuchamos a Ward Hayden cantando a Springsteen, Town Moauntain saboreando los sonidos de Dire Straits, Jaelee Roberts llevando al bluegrass a Stealers Wheel o Della Mae dejándose seducir por Blind Melon. Además, Bella White se entrega a Lucind Williams, The Cartlellows lo hace a Emmylou Harris y Kelsey Waldon lo hace a Hazel Dickens y Alice Gerrard con la ayuda de S.G. Goodman. Rising Apalachia se sumerge en uno de los grande clásicos de Dylan, mientras Margo Price junto a Mike Campbell o Steve Earle rinden homenaje a Tom Petty. La nueva gira de Hootie & The Blowfish nos permite resucitar a Buffalo Springfield y hasta Flatland Cavalry se han inclinado ante la categoría de Fleetwood Mac. Por favor, subscríbete y déjanos un comentario. Queremos saber de ti. PLAYLIST 01-WARD HAYDEN & THE OUTLIERS “Brilliant Disguise” (Springsteen) Faster Horses 02-TOWN MOUNTAIN “So Far Away” (Knopfler) New West 03-JAELEE ROBERTS “Stuck In The Middle With You” (Rafferty/Egan) Mountain Home 04-DELLA MAE “No Rain” (Smith) Della Mae 05-BELLA WHITE “Concrete And Barbed Wire” (Williams) Rounder 06-THE CASTELLOWS “Red Dirt Girl (Acoustic Sessions)” (Harris) Henry-Dixon Line/Warner Nashville 07-KELSEY WALDON feat S.G. GOODMAN “Hello Stranger” (Carter/Riddle) Oh Boy! 08-RISING APPALACHIA “I Shall Be Released” (Dylan) Rising Appalachia 09-MARGO PRICE feat MIKE CAMPBELL “Ways To Be Wicked” (Petty/Campbell) Legacy/Big Machine 10-STEVE EARLE “Yer So Bad” (Petty) Petty Legacy/Big Machine 11-HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH “For What It's Worth” (Stills) UMG 12-FLATLAND CAVALRY “Landslide” (Nicks) Interscope

My Backstage Pass
Bluegrass Beckons When Irene Kelley Shares An Exclusive Interview With My Backstage Pass

My Backstage Pass

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2024 29:33


Send us a Text Message.Irene Kelley's love of music has been imbued in her memory practically from the very beginning. She became wholly entranced by it while hearing it for the first time in her dad's basement TV repair workshop as a young girl. After hearing it around the house, the music became so imbued in her that she began writing music early on and joined her first band at the age of 15.In 1981, she made her big career leap when she was invited to join the bluegrass band Redwing as lead singer. She soon found herself performing at any number of major festivals and gaining major traction in the process. Her move to Nashville in 1984 added increased momentum and she was soon signed to MCA Nashville for whom she recorded her first album which also featured an all-star line-up in the persons of Sam Bush, Carl Jackson and Mark O'Connor.  She also found success as a songwriter, penning songs for the likes Alan Jackson, Ricky Skaggs and Sharon White, Loretta Lynn and Trisha Yearwood. Nevertheless, despite her accomplishments, her devotion to the basics of bluegrass remained first and foremost. With early influences that include Jean Ritchie, Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, Rodney Crowell, Pete Goble, Greg Allman, Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn.These days, Irene is carrying the torch forward, not only through her own efforts, but that of her daughters as well, all of whom joined her for her recent holiday LP Kelley Family Christmas.My Backstage Pass recently had the pleasure of speaking with Ms. Kelley in a sit-down face to face interview which found her sharing her musical journey and her fervent belief in bluegrass past and present. Learn more about Irene Kelley at https://www.irenekelley.comHost Lee Zimmerman is a freelance music writer whose articles have appeared in several leading music industry publications. Lee is a former promotions representative for ABC and Capital Records and director of communications for various CBS affiliated television stations. Lee recently authored the book "Thirty Years Behind The Glass" about legendary producer and engineer Jim Gains.Podcast producer/cohost Billy Hubbard is an Americana Singer/Songwriter and former Regional Director of A&R for a Grammy winning company. Billy is a signed artist with Spectra Music Group  and co-founder of the iconic venue "The Station" in East TN. Billy's new album was released on Spectra Records 10/2023 on all major outlets! Learn more about Billy at http://www.BillyHubbard.comMy Backstage Pass is sponsored by The Alternate Root Magazine! Please subscribe to their newsletter, read the latest music reviews and check out their weekly Top Ten songs at this link http://www.thealternateroot.com

Does This Still Work?
212 MATEWAN 1987

Does This Still Work?

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2024 35:03


It is the final movie in our Union Films Series. Here we look at an 80s movie about 20s coal miners attempting to unionize under horrible circumstances.  Have a listen. Links You can rate and review us in these places (and more, probably) Does This Still Work? - TV Podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/does-this-still-work-1088105 ‎Does This Still Work? on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-this-still-work/id1492570867 Few Clothes Johnson/Dan Chain https://youtu.be/BE6Pxb9pL4s?si=4jxaKw9aPzoJaDcZ https://www.facebook.com/WVMineWarsMuseum/posts/today-this-image-of-dan-chain-known-to-fellow-miners-as-few-clothes-johnson-now-/1654995611189565/ Fire In The Hole Lyrics by John Sayles and Mason Daring Music by Mason Daring (c) 1987 Daring Music/ASCAP Sung by Hazel Dickens Fire in the Hole (feat. Hazel Dickens)

Basic Folk
Folklore Forensics with Alice Gerrard, ep. 235

Basic Folk

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2023 66:30


Bluegrass hero and former weird kid Alice Gerrard strongly believes that traditional music is connected to everyday life. She has said: “When you listen to traditional music you have such a sense of this connectedness of this person's life. It comes out of the earth.” She was first exposed to folk music while attending Antioch College. Jeremy Foster (her boyfriend at the time, who would become her first husband) introduced her to The Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music. Upon listening, she became hooked and more drawn to lonesome and rough folk songs versus the pristine vocalists. That mentality of keeping her performance untarnished and imperfect has followed her ever since.After she and Jeremy moved to Washington DC, she became acquainted with Hazel Dickens. She considered Hazel a mentor figure and studied her musicality. The two would record four albums together as the seminal duo Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard. The two did not speak for many years after they split in the late 70's. The breakup was messy and hard for both, particularly Hazel. Years later, they reconciled and would perform and were close until Hazel's death in 2011. Nowadays, Alice, who lives in Durham, NC, has begun digitizing her huge photo archive for a book as well as performing with the younger generation of traditional music. People like Tatiana Hargreaves, Reed Stutz and Phil Cook are regulars on her stage. They also contribute to her new album Sun to Sun. Alice digs in talking about her unorthodox parenting style (which is no secret), imperfectionism, appreciating memory and the fantastic new record.  Follow Basic Folk on social media: https://basicfolk.bio.link/Sign up for Basic Folk's newsletter: https://bit.ly/basicfolknewsHelp produce Basic Folk by contributing: https://basicfolk.com/donate/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Sing Out! Radio Magazine
Episode 2281: 23-28 Return to the Mountain State

Sing Out! Radio Magazine

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2023 58:30


On this week's installment of the program we'll feature some of my favorite music and musicians from the Mountain State. We'll open with Hazel Dickens' “West Virginia, My Home,” performed by Hazel and Alice Gerrard. Our theme music, “Roaring River, is from Ben Townsend, a wonderful banjo and fiddle player. We'll follow that with lots of other musicians and tunes connected to West Virginia … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine. Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian FolkwaysBen Townsend and Friends / “Roaring River” / Deep End Sessions Vol. III / Deep End SessionsHazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / “West Virginia My Home” / Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard / RounderThe Sky Island Stringband / “Cranberry Rock” / Adventures in Old Cranberry / BemlarCosta & Campbell / “Sweet Bunch of Daisies-Rise When the Rooster Crows” / with Amazing Jim Lloyd / EastwoodDaniel Koulack & Karrnel Sawitsky / “Groundhog” / Songs from the South-Tunes from the North / Self-producedJohn Lilly / “Whodunit” / Last Chance to Dance / Self-producedOscar Wright / “Elkhorn Ridge” / Fifty Years of County Records / CountyLong Point String Band / “Piney Woods” / Piney Woods / Self-producedJesse Milnes & Emily Miller / “Fun's All Over” / Deep End Sessions Vol. II / Deep End SessionsBen Townsend and Friends / “The Gooson Quadrille” / Deep End Sessions Vol. III / Deep End SessionsTim O'Brien / “Get Out There and Dance” / Chameleon / Howdy Skies-ProperBilly Edd Wheeler / “Coal Tatoo” / Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back / KappKathy Mattea / “A Far Cry” / Calling Me Home / Sugar HillTodd Burge / “Time to Waste Time” / Imitation Life / Bunj JamGandydancer / “Boozefighters” / The Appalachians / DualtoneDan Cunningham / “Deep River Blues” / Simple Gifts / PickndawgPete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

The Other 22 Hours
Alice Gerrard on how to teach yourself, longevity, and authenticity.

The Other 22 Hours

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2023 44:43


Links:Alice GerrardHazel DickensThe Old Time HeraldHarry Smith's Anthology of American Folk MusicMichael DavesAlice Gerrard & Hazel Dickens DC TapesSunset Park, New River RanchClick here to watch this conversation on YouTube.Social Media:The Other 22 Hours InstagramThe Other 22 Hours TikTokMichaela Anne InstagramAaron Shafer-Haiss InstagramSend us your feedback!The Other 22 Hours FeedbackAll music written, performed, and produced by Aaron Shafer-Haiss.

John Edmonds Kozma's Unimpressed Podcast
Singer-Songwriter James Talley: Making it in Country Music #108

John Edmonds Kozma's Unimpressed Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2023 41:29


James Talley is an Oklahoma born folk-country-blues singer/songwriter, whose career now spans over forty years. His name has been mentioned alongside Woody Guthrie, Merle Haggard and Bob Dylan, and praised for the quality of his songwriting and his wise, expressive voice. Noted author and music critic, Peter Guralnick has said of James' work, “There are few singer-songwriters who could produce a collection of such magnitude coupled at the same time with such lightness, beauty, and all-out social conscience. Woody Guthrie never wrote a more direct or affecting song than “Richland, Washington”; Bruce Springsteen never wrote a more powerful one than “Tryin' Like the Devil.”Upon moving to Nashville, James discovered that the commercial music business was not attuned to the kind of honesty he wrote about in his songs, so he went to New York to meet the late John Hammond, who became his first mentor. Hammond championed the unique vision in his writing in the early 1970s as he had the careers of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Bruce Springsteen.Hammond, however, could not convince Columbia in New York to sign James' more country-flavored sound, so he sent him to his friend Jerry Wexler, whose Atlantic Records was starting a new Country division in Nashville at the time. Wexler signed James to his first recording contract at Atlantic Records in 1972 along with Doug Sahm and Willie Nelson. Atlantic's Nashville operation, however, did not do well at the time and Atlantic closed its Nashville office. James then moved to Capitol Records where he released four now legendary albums during the mid-1970s: Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Sure Got a Lot of Love (1975); Tryin' Like The Devil (1976); Blackjack Choir (1977) and Ain't It Somthin' (1977). ROLLING STONE, and other music publications, have declared these albums American classics.James performed twice at The White House for President Jimmy Carter, and at the Smithsonian Institution, and in other concert venues around the United States and in Europe. B.B. King played guitar on James third album, Blackjack Choir, in 1976, marking the first time the legendary bluesman had ever recorded in Nashville. Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck, Alan Jackson, Hazel Dickens, the late Gene Clark, and most recently Moby, among others, have recorded his songs.Music author David McGee has called James Talley's work startlingly original. Legendary music producer, Jerry Wexler, who remained friends with James until his death, said, “You remain for me one of America's greatest songwriters.” CMT columnist, Chet Flippo, called him “one of the best singer-songwriters to ever come out of Nashville.”James is a life member of Nashville Local 257, American Federation of Musicians, and is a board member of the Nashville American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. He and Janice spend their time now between their home near Santa Fe, NM and Nashville. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/unimpressedpodcast. https://plus.acast.com/s/unimpressedpodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Labor History Today
Mackay, Wurf, library workers, Matewan and the first baseball strike (Encore)

Labor History Today

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2023 36:22


On this week's show (originally posted 5/13/2018): Labor historian Joe McCartin discusses the 1938 U.S. Supreme Court's Mackay decision, which permits the permanent replacement of striking workers; Joe says this obscure decision was in fact a “ticking time bomb” that would go off to devastating effect more than 40 years later, when Ronald Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers in 1981, giving employers across the country a green light for union-busting. PLUS: Joe Hower on how Jerry Wurf built AFSCME into one of the most powerful unions in America, Lane Windham on the first union of public library workers, and Saul Schniderman and David Fernandez on the Matewan Massacre. Chris Bangert-Drowns even manages to sneak in baseball's first labor strike, when the 1912 Detroit Tigers refused to play after team leader Ty Cobb was suspended. Plus music from Brooklyn Cablevision workers – and CWA members -- Jaywalk, Grim and Shatoya Thomas-Flemmings, and the immortal Hazel Dickens. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Produced/hosted by Chris Garlock, with the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. #LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @UMDMLA @ILLaborHistory @AFLCIO @StrikeHistory #LaborHistory @wrkclasshistory @IntPubNYC

Encyclopedia Womannica
Ragers: Hazel Dickens

Encyclopedia Womannica

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2023 7:07


Hazel Dickens (1935-2011) used her voice — and her guitar — to fight against abuse of the working class. Though she  evolved into a leading figure in folk music, she never abandoned her blue collar roots. This month, we're highlighting Ragers: women who used their anger— often righteous, though not always— to accomplish extraordinary things. History classes can get a bad rap, and sometimes for good reason. When we were students, we couldn't help wondering... where were all the ladies at? Why were so many incredible stories missing from the typical curriculum? Enter, Womanica. On this Wonder Media Network podcast we explore the lives of inspiring women in history you may not know about, but definitely should. Every weekday, listeners explore the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of groundbreaking women throughout history who have dramatically shaped the world around us. In each 5 minute episode, we'll dive into the story behind one woman listeners may or may not know–but definitely should. These diverse women from across space and time are grouped into easily accessible and engaging monthly themes like Educators, Villains, Indigenous Storytellers, Activists, and many more.  Womanica is hosted by WMN co-founder and award-winning journalist Jenny Kaplan. The bite-sized episodes pack painstakingly researched content into fun, entertaining, and addictive daily adventures.  Womanica was created by Liz Kaplan and Jenny Kaplan, executive produced by Jenny Kaplan, and produced by Liz Smith, Grace Lynch, Maddy Foley, Brittany Martinez, Edie Allard, Lindsey Kratochwill, Adesuwa Agbonile, Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Taylor Williamson, Ale Tejeda, Sara Schleede, and Abbey Delk. Special thanks to Shira Atkins. Original theme music composed by Miles Moran. Follow Wonder Media Network: Website Instagram Twitter See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Georgian Bay Roots
Georgian Bay Roots #335 March 19, 2023 (with Tim)

Georgian Bay Roots

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2023 59:00


This week's show features music from Owen Sound's Al Walker, from British guitarist Davy Graham, Pentangle, John Martyn, Nick Drake, Marianne Girard, Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, Sierra Hull, Molly Tuttle and Rob Green.

Podwireless
Episode 245: Podwireless Best Of 2022

Podwireless

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2022 60:01


1. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros : Bhindi Bhagee from the 4CD set Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years (Dark Horse)2. Sears Orchestra : Bela Aurora from the 4CD box Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History Of The World's Music (Dust To Digital)3. Angeline Morrison : Black John from the CD The Sorrow Songs (Folk Songs Of Black British Experience) (Topic)4. Nick Hart : Lemany from the CD Nick Hart Sings Ten English Folk Songs (Roebuck)5. Oumou Sangaré : Kélé Magni from the CD Timbuktu (World Circuit)6. Joan Shelley : Home from the CD The Spur (No Quarter)7. Lady Maisery : Tender from the CD Tender (Lady Maisery)8. Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard : Who's That Knocking? from the CD Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition (Smithsonian Folkways)9. Son House : Forever On My Mind from the CD Forever On My Mind (Easy Eye Sound)10. Eliza Carthy & The Restitution : Two Tears from the CD Queen Of The Whirl (HemHem)11. Leyla McCalla : Vini Wé from the CD Breaking The Thermometer (Anti)12. Meïkhâneh : Chaque Jour Nouveau from the CD Chants Du Dedans, Chants Du Dehors (Buda)13. Glenn Jones : Kathy Maltese from the CD Vade Mecum (Thrill Jockey)14. Folkatomik : Lu Trainu from the CD Polaris (ItalySona) You can find more details including past playlists and links to labels at www.podwireless.comPodwireless can also be heard streamed live on Mixcloud.Follow the links for previous podcasts.

Podwireless
Episode 244: Podwireless 244 December 2022

Podwireless

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2022 120:00


1. (Sig) Ian A Anderson : Goblets & Elms from the CD Onwards (Ghosts From The Basement)2. Hack-Poets Guild : Daring Highwayman from the CD Blackletter Garland (One Little Independent)3. The Magpie Arc : The Cutty Wren from the CD Glamour In The Grey (Collective Perspective)4. Fabrizio Piepoli : Stella D'Ori from the CD Maresia (Zero Nove Nove)5. Nidi D'Arac : Ei from the CD Nanti Li '90s (Emme)6. Lady Maisery : Rest Now from the CD Tender (Lady Maisery)7. Harp & A Monkey : Poor People We from the DL single (Harp & A Monkey)8. Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard : They're At Rest Together (T.B. Blues) from the CD Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition (Smithsonian Folkways)9. The Carrivick Sisters : Amsterdam from the CD Illustrated Short Stories (Carrivic Sisters)10. Balaklava Blues : Beat Up from the CD Let Me Out (Unfit)11. Altin Gun : Leylim Ley from the DL single (Glitterbeat)12. Charles O'Hegarty : Marika's Lullaby from the CD The More I Travel (Lollipop Shop)13. Nigel Parry feat. Helen Dorothy : No More from the CD Tales Of Common Folk, Salt & Sweet Kisses (Nigel Parry)14. Loogaroo : Rikitikitavi from the CD Nautilus (Trad)15. Siger : Barbaren from the CD Rodeland (Trad)16. Lisa Knapp : The Rowan Tree from the DL single (Filmtrax)17. Burd Ellen : The Lovers from the CD A Tarot Of The Green Wood (Mavis)18. Sairie : The Breeze On The Meadow from the DL single (Fenny Compton)19. Dawda Jobarteh : Winter Trees Standing Sleeping from the CD Do You Know A Place Called Flekkeroy? (Ajabu)20. Ustad Noor Bakhsh : Maanj from the DL album Jingul (Honiunhoni)21. Su-a Lee : Lundgren from the CD Dialogues (Sky Child)22. Henriette Flach : Little Miss Ladybird from the CD Skyklokke (GO' Danish)23. Elise Boeur & Adam Iredale-Gray : Fröken Agnes / Polska Efter Kusen from the CD Fiddle Tunes (Fiddlehead)24. Ruwengo Bros Band : Arata Rekai Njuge from the CD Crossroads Kenya: East African Benga And Rumba, 1980-1985 (Nowahala Sounds)25. Fresa Juvenil De Tarapoto : La Palmerita from the CD Perú Selvático (Analog Africa)26. Rosie Brown : Black Dog from the CD Detail From A Dream (Stuck)27. The Long Hill Ramblers : Love Farewell from the DL EP Wagon Yard (Longhill Ramblers)28. Rachel Walker & Aaron Jones : Gormshùil Mhòr from the CD Despite The Wind And Rain (Ròs Dearg)29. Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin : Anáil na hOíche from the CD The Deepest Breath (Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin)30. Black Ox Orkestar : Epigenetik from the CD Everything Returns (Constellation)31. Agent Starling : Napoleon In Morocco from the CD Clandestine (DHM)32. Scottish Fish : Stomping from the CD Upscale (Scottish Fish) You can find more details including past playlists and links to labels at www.podwireless.comPodwireless can also be heard streamed live on Mixcloud.Follow the links for previous podcasts.

PBS NewsHour - Art Beat
Bluegrass icon Alice Gerrard on her trailblazing career

PBS NewsHour - Art Beat

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2022 6:43


With their unique harmonies, the bluegrass duo of Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard blazed trails for female folk singers in the 1960s and '70s. They were also civil rights activists who used their music to speak out politically. To celebrate the pair's legacy, last month the Smithsonian released a selection of remastered versions of their music. Ali Rogin speaks to Gerrard about her career. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Mostly Folk
Mostly Folk Podcast Episode 603

Mostly Folk

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2022 60:00


Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard/The One I Love Is Gone      /The Definitive Pioneering Women of BluegrassMarcus Mumford & Punch Brothers/Farewell/Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard/A Distant Land to Roam/Won't You Come And Sing For MeStella Prince/The Rain Might Fall/Crying on a Saturday NightSam Bush/In Tall Buildings/Radio John: Songs of John HartfordAsh & Eric/Until My Heart Grows Quiet /SureMick Hanly/Before The Deluge/MarathonStella Prince/Closing Doors    /singleTom Chapin/Willie (The Ballad Of Willie Sutton)/In The City Of MercyMali Obomsawin/Odana /Sweet ToothLeonard Cohen/Suzanne/The Essential Leonard Cohen [Disc 1]Terri Camilari/Diamonds In The Snow/Folk NOW: Songs For These Times (Dec 2022)/Hudson HardingColleen Kattau /The Last Time I Saw Richard/FOLK NOW: Songs for These Times (Nov 2022)/Hudson HardingSupport the show

Mundofonías
Mundofonías 2022 #76: English Folk Expo, bluegrass y otras hierbas / English Folk Expo, bluegrass and other herbs

Mundofonías

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2022 57:29


Escuchamos algunos discos cosechados en la English Folk Expo, que ha tenido lugar recientemente en Manchester, y continuamos con otras novedades que nos llevan por el sonido «bluegrass» norteamericano y nos hacen viajar por Europa y el Extremo Oriente. We listen to some records picked up at the English Folk Expo, which recently took place in Manchester, and continue with other new releases that take us through the North American bluegrass sound and make us travel through Europe and the Far East. Gavin Fairhall Lever – The great debate – Gavin Fairhall Lever Gilmore & Roberts – Bone cupboard – A problem of our kind Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman – Down, down, down – Saved for a rainy day Tamsin Elliott – Old wax jacket / A coat of sawdust – Frey Barokk Boreal – Evig liv – Sanger om død og glæde av Dorothe Engelbretsdatter Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard – Weary lonesome blues – Pioneering women of bluegrass: The definitive edition Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard – Walkin’ in my sleep – Who’s that knocking? [2022] Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard – Sugar tree stomp – Won’t you come and sing for me [2022] Iron Horse – Iron horse – Horse and pen A Moving Sound – Toh de gong – Starshine Masahiko Togashi with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden – Words of wind pt. 2 – Session in Paris, vol. one: Song of soil M.Chuzi – Tahini miso – Papara Imagen: / Image: Gilmore & Roberts (📸 Elly Lucas)

Deeper Roots Radio Podcast
Episode 134: Workin' Man Blues

Deeper Roots Radio Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2022 118:37


We'll be spending two hours on a century of hard work, little pay, striking it rich as well as failing to do so. Songs about working the mines, panning in the mother lode, welfare and pittance wages, as well as the country sounds of Merle's Working Man Blues. Plenty to keep us reflecting on a lifetime of keeping afloat knowing full well that you can't take it with you. Not necessarily money for nothing and kicks for free but we've also got songs about blowing it all on a Saturday night. Join us for music from Johnny Horton, Wynn Stewart, Tex Ritter, Merle, Hazel Dickens, Roy Orbison and a cast of the very best of performances from the past century here on Sonoma County Community Radio.

Bluegrass Unlimited's Podcast
Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Alice Gerrard

Bluegrass Unlimited's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2022 72:54


This week we feature Alice Gerrard, one of the first ladies of bluegrass music.  Her musical partnership with Hazel Dickens led her to being inducted, along with Hazel, into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2017.  Alice was also part of the group that started Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine in 1966 and she later was the founder of the Old Time Herald.  During the interview we talk about her music career starting in the 1950s all the way up to the present day.

Red Barn Radio
The 1937 Flood

Red Barn Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2022 59:00


Dozens of musicians been members of The 1937 Flood of Huntington, WV, over the years since it stumbled into existence back in the hippy-dippy mid 1970s. As writer Dave Lavender of the Herald-Dispatch has noted, "The Flood doesn't rest on its laurels as West Virginia's most eclectic string band. Born in the 1970s when fiddler Joe Dobbs met Dave Peyton and Charlie Bowen, the Flood has played recent gigs with everyone from the Huntington Symphony Orchestra to Marshall University tailgate parties. The band, which also features Doug Chaffin, Sam St. Clair, Michelle Walker and Randy Hamilton, plays everything from folk classics of John Prine and Bob Dylan to the blues of Mississippi John Hurt. "Throw in some Dixieland jazz, some Irish fiddle tunes, a great sense of humor, some pure mountain melodies from the likes of such state treasured songwriters as Hazel Dickens and yes by God, the best kazoo playing between here and say Kalamazoo, and you got the 1937 Flood," adds Lavender.

Sing Out! Radio Magazine
Episode 2223: 22-22 Return to the Mountain State

Sing Out! Radio Magazine

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2022 58:30


We traveled back to West Virginia for the Memorial Day weekend and to celebrate my birthday. We had a wonderful time and on this program we'll sample some of my favorite artists and music from West Virginia. We'll hear Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, Tim O'Brien, Kathy Mattea and many more. We'll take a trip to The Mountain State … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / SmithsonianFolkwaysBen Townsend and Friends / “Roaring River” / Deep End Sessions Vol. III / Deep End SessionsHazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / “West Virginia My Home” / Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard / RounderThe Sky Island Stringband / “Cranberry Rock” / Adventures in Old Cranberry / BemlarCosta & Campbell / “Sweet Bunch of Daisies - Rise When the Rooster Crows” / with Amazing Jim Lloyd / Eastwood Daniel Koulack & Karrnnel Sawitsky / “Groundhog” / Songs from the South - Tunes from the North/ Self ProducedJohn Lilly / “Whodunit” / Last Chance to Dance / Self ProducedOscar Wright / “Elkhorn Ridge” / Fifty Years of County Records / CountyLong Point String Band / “Piney Woods” / Piney Woods / Self ProducedJesse Milnes & Emily Miller / “Fun's All Over” / Deep End Session Vol. II / Deep End SessionsBen Townsend and Friends / “The Gooson Quadrile” / Deep End Session Vol. III / Deep End SessionsTim O'Brien / “Get Out There and Dance” / Chameleon / Howdy Skies-ProperBilly Edd Wheeler / “Coal Tatoo” / Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back / KappKathy Mattea / “A Far Cry” / Calling Me Home / Sugar HillTodd Burge / “Time to Waste Time” / Imitation Life / Bunj JamGandydancer / “Boozefighters” / The Appalachians / DualtoneDan Cunningham / “Deep River Blues” / Simple Gifts / PickndawgPete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / SmithsonianFolkways

Daring Dissent
E10: Battle of Blair Mountain - The Coal Wars

Daring Dissent

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2022 50:49


The largest labor uprising in American history happened in the southern hills of West Virginia in the summer of 1921. 10,000 coal miners rose up against the mine owners and their hired detectives/mercenaries/thugs known as the “mine-guards''. On their “March to Mingo” the miners are stopped at Blair Mountain and days of guerrilla fighting ensue. Will the union fighters come together to defeat their bosses? Listen in to learn all about Mother Jones, mining music, and the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency in this outrageously overlooked tale of the Coal Wars. Donate to support the show at ko-fi.com/daringdissent Follow on IG @daringdissent Theme song by Skilsel on pixabay.com Oral histories were largely sourced from the West Virginia University digital archives Background music credit to ZakharValaha and eternityplatform (Pixabay), “Fire in the Hole” by Hazel Dickens and “Dark as a Dungeon” by Merle Travis Album Art by chnkyraptr Source list for all episodes found here --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

American Songcatcher
S2:E4 // Pioneering Women in Bluegrass

American Songcatcher

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2022 72:40


Featured in this Episode: Jean Ritchie (:28) Ola Belle Reed (17:48) Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard (35:41) Alison Krauss (55:54) Teaser: Her family is considered one of the wealthiest in the ballad tradition, preserving hundreds of songs from their lineage to Scotland in their home of Kentucky, and is single-handedly responsible for bringing the Appalachian dulcimer to prominence in America. Born in the mountains of North Carolina, she paved the way for both bluegrass music and old-time with her brother through their pioneering work at music parks, on the radio, and during the folk revival. They're considered the first women to front a bluegrass band, and in their wake are generations of women thanks to their contributions. A child prodigy, she was signed to Rounder Records at 14 and now is one of the most decorated bluegrass and female musicians of all time, still turning heads today with her many collaborations. --- "Shine A Light" | Pretty Good For a Girl: Women in Bluegrass by Murphy Hicks Henry Follow American Songcatcher | Instagram Support | Join Patreon or send a one-time donation: Venmo // PayPal Source Credits: Jean Ritchie: KET | Library of Congress | NPR Ola Belle Reed: Blue Ridge Heritage | Arts.gov | NC Pedia | SML Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard: NY Times | Folkstreams | Official | BG Hall of Fame | Pinecone | Birthplace of Country Music Alison Krauss: NPR | Britannica | Grammy | NY Times --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/americansongcatcher/support

New Books in Literature
Marianne Worthington, "The Girl Singer" (Fireside Industries, 2021)

New Books in Literature

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2021 50:13


In The Girl Singer (Fireside Industries, 2021), her latest collection of poems, Marianne Worthington weaves together nature writing, feminism, and country music to form a powerful strand of interlocking poems. In the book's first section, Worthington inhabits famous woman singers like Hazel Dickens and Sara Carter, but also unsung artists who struggled to find a voice or an audience in the patriarchal world of country music. Later sections pivot to more personal themes, but the resonances of the first section remain in lines that recall the lyrics of folksongs, evocations of the singing of birds, and poems that make use of traditional song structure. The collection as a whole is an immensely satisfying volume that should appeal to poetry fans in general, as well as fans of country, folk, and old-time music. Andy Boyd is a playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a graduate of the playwriting MFA at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the Arizona School for the Arts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

New Books in the American South
Marianne Worthington, "The Girl Singer" (Fireside Industries, 2021)

New Books in the American South

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2021 50:13


In The Girl Singer (Fireside Industries, 2021), her latest collection of poems, Marianne Worthington weaves together nature writing, feminism, and country music to form a powerful strand of interlocking poems. In the book's first section, Worthington inhabits famous woman singers like Hazel Dickens and Sara Carter, but also unsung artists who struggled to find a voice or an audience in the patriarchal world of country music. Later sections pivot to more personal themes, but the resonances of the first section remain in lines that recall the lyrics of folksongs, evocations of the singing of birds, and poems that make use of traditional song structure. The collection as a whole is an immensely satisfying volume that should appeal to poetry fans in general, as well as fans of country, folk, and old-time music. Andy Boyd is a playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a graduate of the playwriting MFA at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the Arizona School for the Arts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-south

New Books Network
Marianne Worthington, "The Girl Singer" (Fireside Industries, 2021)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2021 50:13


In The Girl Singer (Fireside Industries, 2021), her latest collection of poems, Marianne Worthington weaves together nature writing, feminism, and country music to form a powerful strand of interlocking poems. In the book's first section, Worthington inhabits famous woman singers like Hazel Dickens and Sara Carter, but also unsung artists who struggled to find a voice or an audience in the patriarchal world of country music. Later sections pivot to more personal themes, but the resonances of the first section remain in lines that recall the lyrics of folksongs, evocations of the singing of birds, and poems that make use of traditional song structure. The collection as a whole is an immensely satisfying volume that should appeal to poetry fans in general, as well as fans of country, folk, and old-time music. Andy Boyd is a playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a graduate of the playwriting MFA at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the Arizona School for the Arts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in Poetry
Marianne Worthington, "The Girl Singer" (Fireside Industries, 2021)

New Books in Poetry

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2021 50:13


In The Girl Singer (Fireside Industries, 2021), her latest collection of poems, Marianne Worthington weaves together nature writing, feminism, and country music to form a powerful strand of interlocking poems. In the book's first section, Worthington inhabits famous woman singers like Hazel Dickens and Sara Carter, but also unsung artists who struggled to find a voice or an audience in the patriarchal world of country music. Later sections pivot to more personal themes, but the resonances of the first section remain in lines that recall the lyrics of folksongs, evocations of the singing of birds, and poems that make use of traditional song structure. The collection as a whole is an immensely satisfying volume that should appeal to poetry fans in general, as well as fans of country, folk, and old-time music. Andy Boyd is a playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a graduate of the playwriting MFA at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the Arizona School for the Arts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry

New Books in Dance
Marianne Worthington, "The Girl Singer" (Fireside Industries, 2021)

New Books in Dance

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2021 50:13


In The Girl Singer (Fireside Industries, 2021), her latest collection of poems, Marianne Worthington weaves together nature writing, feminism, and country music to form a powerful strand of interlocking poems. In the book's first section, Worthington inhabits famous woman singers like Hazel Dickens and Sara Carter, but also unsung artists who struggled to find a voice or an audience in the patriarchal world of country music. Later sections pivot to more personal themes, but the resonances of the first section remain in lines that recall the lyrics of folksongs, evocations of the singing of birds, and poems that make use of traditional song structure. The collection as a whole is an immensely satisfying volume that should appeal to poetry fans in general, as well as fans of country, folk, and old-time music. Andy Boyd is a playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a graduate of the playwriting MFA at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the Arizona School for the Arts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/performing-arts

Labor History Today
“It Didn't Start with Amazon: A Conversation About the History of Organized Labor in the South”

Labor History Today

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2021 30:36


Last month the United Campus Workers of Georgia, the Atlanta-North Georgia Labor Council, The Labor and Working Class History Association and the Southern Labor Studies Association hosted a distinguished panel of labor historians on “It Didn't Start with Amazon: A Conversation About the History of Organized Labor in the South.” Today's show features excerpts from that conversation, which reveals that although unions are notoriously weak in the southern states, workers there actually have a rich history of fighting for their rights and organizing to win power.      And, on Labor History in 2:00, The year was 1877; that was the day that John D. Rockefeller, and his company Standard Oil struck a deal with the Pennsylvania Railroad that would cement his monopoly on the nation's oil refineries. Music for today's show by Hazel Dickens; special thanks to Eric Castater and Ryan Richardson for getting us the panel audio file. Produced by Chris Garlock. To contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council's Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University. #LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @UMDMLA @ILLaborHistory @AFLCIO @ucwgagt @ATL_Labor @lawcha_org @SouthernLaborSA

Sing Out! Radio Magazine
Episode 2122: #21-22: Return to West Virginia

Sing Out! Radio Magazine

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2021 58:30


The Pandemic has caused many families to be apart. Betty and I last visited our son and his wife in West Virginia for Christmas 2019. Little did we know at the time, it would be 18 months until we could return. Well, we've all had our innoculations and we headed back to the Mountain State for the Memorial Day weekend to celebrate my birthday. We had a wonderful time, so this week we'll sample some of my favorite artists and music from West Virginia. We'll hear Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, Tim O'Brien, Kathy Mattea and many more. Let's take a trip to The Mountain State … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine. Episode #21-22: Return to the Mountain State Host: Tom Druckenmiller Artist/”Song”/CD/Label Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / SmithsonianFolkways Ben Townsend and Friends / “Roaring River” / Deep End Sessions Vol III / Deep End Sessions Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / “West Virginia My Home” / Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard / Rounder The Sky Island Stringband / “Cranberry Rock” / Adventures in Old Cranberry / Bemlar Costa & Campbell / “Sweet Bunch of Daisies-Rise When the Rooster Crows” / with Amazing Jim Lloyd / Eastwood Daniel Koulack & Karrnnel Sawitsky / “Groundhog” / Songs from the South-Tunes from the North Self Produced John Lilly / “Whodunit” / Last Chance to Dance / Self Produced Oscar Wright / “Elkhorn Ridge” / Fifty Years of County Records / County Long Point String Band / “Piney Woods” / Piney Woods / Self Produced Jesse Milnes & Emily Miller / “Fun's All Over” / Deep End Session Vol II / Deep End Sessions Ben Townsend and Friends / “The Gooson Quadrile” / Deep End Session Vol III / Deep End Sessions Tim O'Brien / “Get Out There and Dance” / Chameleon / Howdy Skies-Proper Billy Edd Wheeler / “Coal Tatoo” / Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back / Kapp Kathy Mattea / “A Far Cry” / Calling Me Home / Sugar Hill Todd Burge / “Time to Waste Time” / Imitation Life / Bunj Jam Gandydancer / “Boozefighters” / The Appalachians / Dualtone Dan Cunningham / “Deep River Blues” / Simple Gifts / Pickndawg Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / SmithsonianFolkways

Michael and Carrie Kline, Talking Across the Lines
Disaster at the Mannington Mines - Sarah Kaznowski

Michael and Carrie Kline, Talking Across the Lines

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2021 9:34


In this powerful 8-minute program, union organizer and widow from the Mannington/Farmington Mine Disaster tells Michael Kline of the last day she spent with her husband. In 1968, 78 miners needlessly died in a West Virginia coal mining tragedy. For a deeper understanding of what really happened and how it could've been avoided, read The Memo, a chapter in Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction https://www.folktalk.org/merchandise/books/written-in-blood-courage-and-corruption-in-the-appalachian-war-of-extraction/ Set to the music of coalfield songwriters and performers Jean Ritchie and Hazel Dickens, with a taste of ballroom dance music, this incisive narrative performance brings home searingly the true cost of coal, borne for almost 150 years and still today, by the people of Appalachia.

Movies with a Spine
Spine #334 - Harlan County USA (1976)

Movies with a Spine

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2021 67:41


Strike! Kentucky coal workers pack up their pickaxes and leave the mine to fight for better wages and working conditions... In the 1970s! Strike busters, scabs, and crooked Union presidents are just some of the hurdles to a better life in rural Kentucky. Movies with a Spine covers its first Criterion documentary. EMAIL US - movieswithaspine@gmail.com Harlan County USA's Criterion - https://www.criterion.com/films/777-harlan-county-usa Harlan County USA (YouTube) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCOd7fPHmfU&t=7s Movies with a Spine is three cinephiles discussing the releases of the Criterion Collection. Hosted by Nathaniel Combs, Ryan Hope, and Chris Miele. Edited by Chris Miele. CRITERION'S HARLAN COUNTY USA DESCRIPTION - Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award–winning Harlan County USA unflinchingly documents a grueling coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town. With unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners’ sometimes violent struggles with strikebreakers, local police, and company thugs. Featuring a haunting soundtrack—with legendary country and bluegrass artists Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, Sarah Gunning, and Florence Reece—the film is a heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line. FROM THE CRITERION COLLECTION'S WEBSITE: Since 1984, the Criterion Collection has been dedicated to publishing important classic and contemporary films from around the world in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements. No matter the medium—from laserdisc to DVD and Blu-ray to streaming—Criterion has maintained its pioneering commitment to presenting each film as its maker would want it seen, in state-of-the-art restorations with special features designed to encourage repeated watching and deepen the viewer’s appreciation of the art of film.

Labor History Today
Paul Robeson and the 1948 Library of Congress cafeteria workers’ strike

Labor History Today

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2020 43:51


With 95% of DC’s hotel and restaurant workers out of work because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we look back at the history of cafeteria workers’ struggle for a union at the Library of Congress and how singer and activist Paul Robeson supported their 1948 strike.Former AFSCME organizer and DC 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts tells how a showdown with New York State Governor Nelson Rockefeller over the right of state workers to organize led to her being jailed for two weeks in December, 1968.The Heartland Labor Forum talks with Mark Bradley, author of Blood Runs Coal, about the brutal 1968 murder of Jock Yablonski and his family by United Mineworkers president Tony Boyle, and how it inspired a surge in union democracy. And, on this week’s Labor History in 2:00, Rick Smith tells us about The Beginning of the End of Apartheid.Music: Joe Hill and Old Man River, by Paul Robeson; The Jablonski Murder, by Hazel Dickens.Produced and edited by Chris Garlock. To contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.comLabor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University. We're a proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, nearly 80 shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod

CLAVE DE ROCK
CLAVE DE ROCK T02C024 Rock and roll para el alma (05/12/2020)

CLAVE DE ROCK

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2020 60:37


Tim luhm, californiano anuncia disco de homenaje a Merle Haggard y Kelsey Waldon recuerda a Hazel Dickens en una de las 7 canciones protesta de su más reciente disco. “Nunca nos mantendrán hundidos” es una canción de “el poder para el pueblo” con una frase que recuerda que “nuestro bienestar nunca ha estado en la mente del hombre rico”. Un poco de tex-mex con Garret T. Capps y Nick Garza para tener presente este aspecto esencial de la música del sur de Texas, con las influencias mexicanas de su herencia. Logan Ledger canta sobre “sobre una corriente mística que corre por los rincones más oscuros de mi imaginación”, mientras La Banda de Heathens contribuye al disco de homenaje a John Hartford con un cántico a las noches de campamento. Jeremiah Johnson canta rockandroll para el alma y Suzanne Santo, junto con Gary Clark Jr, entrega un tórrido blues rock. Mientras, los Gran Pavo Real no están muy satisfechos, al contrario que la banda indie Sunday Someday que recuperan el clásico de George Harrison Gime Me Love. Y se cumplen 75 años del inmortal Stand By Me, así que una gran cantidad de artistas lo cantan con el objetivo de recaudar dinero para la fundación Help Musicians, que proporciona ayuda financiera a los músicos. Acabamos con otra de las canciones de Bruce Springsteen que le sirvió a Warren Zevon para hacer su versión sin conocer la original, allá por los 80.- Dallas Moore, Honky Tonk Holidaze- Tim Bluhm, Am I Standing In Your Way?- Kelsey Waldon, They'll Never Keep Us Down- Garrett T. Capps, In The Shadows (Again)- Garrett T. Capps, Goodbye San Antonio, Hello Amsterdam- Nick Garza's Get Along, Take Me Down to San Antonio (The Tex-Mex in Me) (feat. Garrett T. Capps & Max Baca) - Logan Ledger, River Of Fools- The Band Of Heathens, Up On The Hill Where They Do The Boogie- Jeremiah Johnson, Rock And Roll For The Soul- Suzanne Santo (con Gary Clark Jr), Fall For That- Great Peacock, Dissatisfaction - Sunday Someday, Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) - Various Artists, Stand By Me- Bruce Springsteen, Janey Needs A Shooter- Chad Cooke Band, Bringing Country Back

New Slang
New Slang: 143 Kelsey Waldon

New Slang

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2020 90:48


We're kicking off the month of December being joined by singer-songwriter Kelsey Waldon. The Kentucky songwriter released They'll Never Keep Us Down, a seven-song collection of covers just two weeks ago. With songs such as Kris Kristofferson's "The Law is for Protection of the People," Bob Dylan's "With God on Our Side," and the Hazel Dickens title track, Waldon offers songs that are just as emotionally charged as they are statements about humanity, equality, and freedom. She shines brightest on the likes of the anti-war and pro-veteran storyteller "Sam Stone," written by mentor and friend, the late John Prine, and delivers one of the year's most poignant moments. Another stellar standout is the Nina Simone standard "Mississippi Goddam" where she's joined by fellow country artists Adia Victoria and Kyshona Armstrong. During this interview, we talk about They'll Never Keep Us Down, the last year--both on a macro and micro level--Waldon's Kentucky home and roots, songwriting and storytelling, country music dialogues and conversations, and much more.This episode's presenting partner is Desert Door Texas Sotol. For more information, click here.This episode is presented by Hot Damn Coffee. Use the coupon code "SLANG" (all caps) for 20% off in their merch store. Visit here.This episode is sponsored by The Blue Light Live in Lubbock, Texas. To get BL merch, click here.Check out the New New Slang Patreon here. Follow New Slang on Twitter here, Instagram here, and Facebook here. To order New Slang merch, visit the online store here.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thomasdmooney)

Toma uno
Toma Uno - Sentirnos libres - 29/11/20

Toma uno

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2020 58:53


Hoy queremos volver a señalar que el tema instrumental que abre y cierre cada uno de nuestros programas fue un regalo exclusivo de un gran amigo como Tony Luz, pionero del rock ‘n’ roll en España. Él fue autor e intérprete único de la sintonía de TOMA UNO. Y Tony Luz murió hace exactamente tres años, por lo que queremos compartir con vosotros lo mucho que le echamos de menos desde entonces. El 29 de noviembre de 1975, hace exactamente 45 años, Neil Young grabó "Like a Hurricane" en el Broken Arrow Ranch in Woodside, California, aunque no saldría a la luz hasta dos años más tarde, cuando se editó en single y formó parte del álbum American Stars 'n Bars. El noveno de los 10 discos que componen el segundo volumen de sus Neil Young Archives recién publicado, se abre con aquella canción que el canadiense compuso en la parte trasera de un DeSoto Suburban, el coche de finales de los años 40 que pertenecía a su vecino Taylor Phelps en La Honda, un pequeño pueblo del condado de San Mateo, en California. Por entonces se estaba recuperando de una operación en las cuerdas vocales que le impedían cantar y toda su energía la expresaba a través de la guitarra. Cubriendo tan solo cuatro años de su carrera, de 1972 a 1976, en el segundo volumen de su entrega de archivos personales, Neil Young se fija en la que todos consideramos su etapa más prolífica, e incluye 12 canciones nunca lanzadas en ningún formato, mientras que 50 son versiones inéditas de canciones conocidas. Entre los temas no publicados hasta ahora encontramos esta grabación junto a su paisana Joni Mitchell, que el 26 de agosto de 1973, llegó al Studio Instrument Rentals de Los Ángeles, donde Neil Young estaba sacando adelante Tonight’s the Night junto a los guitarristas Ben Keith y Nils Lofgren, el batería Ralph Molina y el bajista Billy Talbot. Es decir los Santa Monica Flyers. En aquel estudio surgió una versión desconocida hasta ahora de “Raised on Robbery”, la conversación de una prostituta que intenta ligar con un hombre solitario en un hotel, sin éxito. Al año siguiente sería el single de anticipo del álbum Court and Spark de la también artista canadiense. Kindred Spirits es uno de los discos de versiones más interesantes que hemos escuchado en mucho tiempo. Larkin Poe, sus protagonistas, han utilizado la variedad de estilos elegidos para moverse por una variedad de amplios espacios sonoros que abarca desde Robert Johnson a Post Malone, pasando por Lenny Kravitz, Allman Brothers, Elvis Presley, Elton John, los Moody Blues, Derek And The Dominos y Neil Young. En este último caso, las hermanas Lovell han elegido “Rockin’ In The Free World”, una canción que partió de una frase de Frank Sampedro cuando pensaban hacer un concierto en la Unión Soviética en 1989 y que formó parte en su álbum Freedom, con dos versiones, una eléctrica y otra acústica al estilo de “Hey Hey My My” en Rust Never Sleep. Hablaba de George Bush padre, del Ayatollah Khomeini y de Jesse Jackson. Cuando Trump se presentó a las elecciones en 2016 utilizó la canción contra la voluntad del canadiense. Kelsey Waldon fue el único fichaje en vida de John Prine de su sello Oh Boy!, por deseo expreso de su dueño, el fallecido músico de Illinois a causa del COVID-19. Nativa de Monkey’s Eyebrow, en Kentucky, tiene una extraordinaria capacidad para componer canciones muy personales que abarcan las más distintas facetas de la condición humana desde su visión como sureña de un país como el suyo. Es por eso que los derechos humanos se han convertido en uno de los focos de su último EP, They’ll Never Keep Us Down, donde canta sobre la injusticia racial o las condiciones laborales de los mineros del carbón de su tierra natal. Para ello se ha acogido a siete canciones de músicos tan dispares como Nina Simone, Hazel Dickens, Bob Dylan, Neil Young o Kristofferson. Su versión de "I Wish I Knew How It would Feel to Be Free", un tema que se convirtió en himno en pro de los derechos civiles en Estados Unidos durante los años 60 y que Nina Simone hizo muy popular en el 67, ha contado con Devon Gilfillian en el apoyo vocal. El pasado jueves 12, Lucinda Williams hizo público el segundo de los seis conciertos temáticos que ha grabado con el título de Lu's Jukebox en apoyo de promotores y salas de conciertos y que irá distribuyendo hasta finales de año. Esta vez se trataba de Southern Soul From Memphis To Muscle Shoals And More, con una selección de 10 versiones e canciones de rhythm and blues y una de cierre que suponía recordar su álbum Car Wheels on a Gravel Road gracias a “Still I Long for Your Kiss”. Lucinda recordó a Brook Benton, Ann Pebbles, Etta James, Al Green, Otis Redding, Bobby Gentry o Joe South entre otros y, por supuesto, no olvidó a Barbara Lynn, cuyo “You’ll Lose a Good Thing” de 1962 también cantó Aretha Franklin e incluso fue versionada por Freddy Fender en el 1976, llevándola al No.1 de las listas de country. La canción que anticipó el último álbum de Lucinda Williams, Good Souls Better Angels, fue "Man Without A Soul", tres años después de que revisara aquel Sweet Old World de 1992. En ese registro se dedicó a abordar los problemas que les son más cercanos y, por supuesto, no ha podido obviar las cuestiones políticas, un terreno en el que, además, entró en profundidad. Hablamos de un disco con evidentes tintes de blues, elementos de rock y un poderoso protagonismo de la guitarra de Stuart Mathis. Ahora esa canción ha obtenido una nominación al premio Grammy a la mejor canción de raíz Americana, compartido con su marido, Tom Overby, que compuso el tema con ella. Desde Carolina del Sur, el guitarrista Marcus King se ha convertido en una de las grandes realidades de la música Americana con acento sureño. Ahora al lado del productor Dan Auerbach, ha conseguido precisamente la nominación al mejor álbum de Americana con El Dorado, el primero de sus álbumes como solista tras su etapa como cabeza visible de la Marcus King Band. Un disco que incluye piezas tan rotundas como “The Well”, compuesta por él, Auerbach y Ronnie Bowman, que sirvió en su momento como primera escucha del trabajo con un impactante trabajo a la guitarra. Acaba de cumplir 28 años y Billy Strings, que recibió el apodo de su tía, se ha convertido en un instrumentista con una envidiable habilidad para interpretar las distintas formas en que se manifiesta el bluegrass. Este joven músico de Lansing, en el estado de Michigan, es la gran realidad de un género muy revitalizado en este siglo XXI. Home, su último álbum, aspira a llevarse un Grammy como mejor álbum de bluegrass, un regalo sonoro impregnado de miradas al pasado que recuerdan a las jam bands, y también a los grandes del jazz o del bluegrass. Son los sonidos puros que, como en “Hollow Heart”, memorizan de dónde viene y le activan a encontrar nuevos horizontes. Si la Country Music Association se olvidó mencionar a John Prine en su última gala de entrega de premios, la Academia de la Música no lo ha hecho y ha nominado al Grammy al artista como mejor interpretación de Americana del año por “I Remember Everything”, la última canción grabada por el mítico artista que nos arrebató el Covid-19 el pasado mes de abril. Competirá también con Lucinda Williams y su marido para lograr ser la mejor canción de raíz Americana. "I Remember Everything" está compuesta por Prine y su buen amigo Pat McLaughlin, contando recuerdos del pasado que dejan una marca indeleble.  En enero de 2018, la USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative publicó un estudio sobre la industria musical, señalando que la mujer necesitaba un mínimo de seis años para situarse al mismo nivel del hombre. She Is The Music, es una organización que busca cerrar esa brecha, apoyando a las mujeres en todos los aspectos de la industria de la música, aumentando sus oportunidades y su visibilidad, procurando que la próxima generación de mujeres consiga roles de liderazgo en esa industria. The Highwomen han tomado la iniciativa junto a She Is The Music para organizar campus de composición femeninos y ayudar a financiar programas de tutoría. “Crowded Table”, una canción que Natalie Hemby y Brandi Carlile han compuesto con Lori McKenna y que se ha convertido en todo un himno desde que las escucharon estrenarlo en el Newport Folk Festival del año pasado. Ahora, sus tres compositoras aspiran a llevarse el Grammy como mejor canción country. A lo largo de su carrera, Linda Ronstadt ha cantado temas de todos los estilos musicales imaginables, desde country a ópera y comedia musical, pasando por folk, rhythm'n'blues, rock'n'roll, pop o música latina. En todos los casos, su voz ha brillado tanto que se ha convertido en una de las vocalistas femeninas de mayor prestigio. Su segundo álbum en solitario, Silk Purse, cumplió esta primavera medio siglo desde su publicación, siendo recordado por canciones como “Long Long Time”, una balada exquisita que llegó a ser nominada a los premios Grammy y en el que hablaba de haber hecho todo lo posible por retener a su pareja. Ahora, 50 años después, la legendaria artista de Arizona ve como su documental Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice está nominada para llevarse el fonógrafo dorado como mejor película musical.   Escuchar audio

Folkcetera
Folkcetera - Episode June 4, 2020

Folkcetera

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2020


Bruce. Some new songs. Hug your cat day tunes. Stan Rogers, Hazel Dickens, Fanfare Ciocarlia and more.Playlist: Antti Paalanen - ElaMyrkur - Fager som en RosAl Stewart - Year Of The CatSharon Shannon, Frankie Gavin, Michael McGoldrick, Jim Murray - The Cat's MiaowAllen Baekeland - Ripped Off WinkleGirls, Guns & Glory - I Saw The LightBilly Simard - Don't Look BackMatt Robertson - SophieStan Rogers - The Wreck Of The Athens QueenJudy Collins - Pastures Of PlentyPharis & Jason Romero - New DayHazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard - True Life BluesJuan Wauters - Mi GuitarraFanfare Ciocărlia - Que DolorGordon Grdina's The Marrow - Safar-E-DaroonDumb Angel - Going Out In Style

Project Censored
Project Censored - 06.02.20

Project Censored

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2020 58:59


Mickey's first guest this week is Robin Andersen, who explains the misleading consequences of portraying the coronavirus crisis as a "war;" she and Mickey also review the media treatment of the police murder of George Floyd. Then Eleanor Goldfield returns to the show to describe her new documentary "Hard Road of Hope," a look at the history of labor and environmental-health  struggles in West Virginia.  Notes:    Robin Andersen teaches communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York.  Her recent article "A Pandemic Is Not A War," can be found at fair.org/home/a-pandemic-is-not-a-war    Eleanor Goldfield is a journalist, artist and organizer; her web site is www.artkillingapathy.com     Music-break information: 1) "Gimme Some Truth" by John Lennon 2) "Uncle Sam Goddamn" by Brother Ali 3) "Fire In The Hole" by Hazel Dickens     the Project Censored Show:   Host: Mickey Huff   Producers: Anthony Fest and Dennis Murphy   Archives at  www.projectcensored.org/category/radio

CiTR -- Pacific Pickin'
Artist Feature - Hazel Dickens

CiTR -- Pacific Pickin'

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2020 120:01


In honour of her birthday we feature the wonderful singer/songwriter/activist Hazel Dickens. We were fortunate to be acquainted with Hazel and hope you enjoy her fine music. We need her now more than ever. We've got birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. We miss being live but are glad to be able to be with you in recorded format. Stay safe.

Labor History Today
“The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland”

Labor History Today

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2020 29:10


Labor historian, activist and writer Toni Gilpin, author of the new book “The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland.” This rich history details the bitter, deep-rooted conflict between industrial behemoth International Harvester and the uniquely radical Farm Equipment Workers union. The Long Deep Grudge makes clear that class warfare has been, and remains, integral to the American experience, providing up-close-and-personal and long-view perspectives from both sides of the battle lines. PLUS: David Fernandez-Barrial, Saul Schniderman and Hazel Dickens on the Matewan Massacre.Produced by Chris Garlock and Patrick Dixon; to contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.com

Take 5
The Rapture share songs for the people they love

Take 5

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2020 18:27


The Rapture are one of my favourite bands. They were the sound of the noughties; with their punk-funk party out of New York City, they'd define a scene and fill every dancefloor on Indie night at the local pub. Every now and then, I like to dip into the Take 5 archives and share a conversation from the past because, while this podcast has been around for almost three years, the Take 5 has been going for more than fourteen. I'll be honest, some of these early conversations are a bit rough. You'll hear a bit of room sound in this Take 5, you'll notice some nerves in my voice too (like I said, I'm a fan) but one of the strangest things about this Take 5 is that Luke, Vito and Gabe from The Rapture picked the songs but only Luke and Vito turned up to the chat. Don't worry, we call Gabe at the beach, halfway through. From heartfelt moments to all out parties, this is a wild ride with some lovely lads. The Beatles - ‘Julia' MGMT - ‘Weekend Wars' Roxy Music - ‘Remake Remodel' Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard — ‘The One I Love Is Gone' Aaliyah - ‘4 Page Letter'

Take 5
The Rapture share songs for the people they love

Take 5

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2020 18:27


The Rapture are one of my favourite bands. They were the sound of the noughties; with their punk-funk party out of New York City, they’d define a scene and fill every dancefloor on Indie night at the local pub. Every now and then, I like to dip into the Take 5 archives and share a conversation from the past because, while this podcast has been around for almost three years, the Take 5 has been going for more than fourteen. I’ll be honest, some of these early conversations are a bit rough. You’ll hear a bit of room sound in this Take 5, you’ll notice some nerves in my voice too (like I said, I’m a fan) but one of the strangest things about this Take 5 is that Luke, Vito and Gabe from The Rapture picked the songs but only Luke and Vito turned up to the chat. Don’t worry, we call Gabe at the beach, halfway through. From heartfelt moments to all out parties, this is a wild ride with some lovely lads. The Beatles - ‘Julia’ MGMT - ‘Weekend Wars’ Roxy Music - ‘Remake Remodel’ Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard — ‘The One I Love Is Gone’ Aaliyah - ‘4 Page Letter’

Take 5
The Rapture share songs for the people they love

Take 5

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2020 18:27


The Rapture are one of my favourite bands. They were the sound of the noughties; with their punk-funk party out of New York City, they’d define a scene and fill every dancefloor on Indie night at the local pub. Every now and then, I like to dip into the Take 5 archives and share a conversation from the past because, while this podcast has been around for almost three years, the Take 5 has been going for more than fourteen. I’ll be honest, some of these early conversations are a bit rough. You’ll hear a bit of room sound in this Take 5, you’ll notice some nerves in my voice too (like I said, I’m a fan) but one of the strangest things about this Take 5 is that Luke, Vito and Gabe from The Rapture picked the songs but only Luke and Vito turned up to the chat. Don’t worry, we call Gabe at the beach, halfway through. From heartfelt moments to all out parties, this is a wild ride with some lovely lads. The Beatles - ‘Julia’ MGMT - ‘Weekend Wars’ Roxy Music - ‘Remake Remodel’ Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard — ‘The One I Love Is Gone’ Aaliyah - ‘4 Page Letter’

Toy Heart with Tom Power (A Podcast About Bluegrass)

Old-time legend and Bluegrass Hall of Fame member Alice Gerrard talks to host Tom Power at her kitchen table in North Carolina. Gerrard tells stories of how she and other college students from the northern U.S. found bluegrass and old-time, of the lifelong influence of the Antioch College folk scene, meeting her Hall of Fame partner Hazel Dickens and making some of the greatest records in the genre. She goes on to describe her split from Hazel, her work since, the creation of print publication The Old-Time Herald, of which she is the founding editor. In tender moments, she shares the last time she ever spoke with Hazel, and describes what she sang to "sing her back home."

Bluegrass Stories w/Katy Daley, Akira Otsuka & Howard Parker
Dudley Connell chats with Katy Daley about the Scene, JMB, Hazel Dickens and much more!

Bluegrass Stories w/Katy Daley, Akira Otsuka & Howard Parker

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2020 46:25


Dudley Connell discusses his extraordinary career and his association with the Seldom Scene, Johnson Mountain Boys, Hazel Dickens and more.

The Dale Wiley Show
Amy Rigby

The Dale Wiley Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2020 32:01


I got to have a really run conversation with Amy Rigby about her memoir Girl to City and her trip to the country., Springfield, Missouri to record with Lou Whitney. And how Hazel Dickens just showed up one afternoon. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dale613/support

Union City Radio
Union City Radio Cas Mudde on unions and young workers

Union City Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2019 2:48


“For many young people, Trade Unions are something for old people.” Today’s labor history: unemployed workers rally in Pittsburgh. Today’s labor quote from Hazel Dickens.

Folk Alley Sessions

(Originally posted in April 2019)Molly Tuttle knew from the time she was 4 that she wanted music to be a big part of her life. Now based in Nashville, this young, incredibly talented and much-awarded musician grew up in a musical household and tried a few different instruments, including fiddle, before realizing that guitar was the instrument that spoke most directly to her. By the time she was 11, she was making music with friends in the local pizza joint, and a few years after that, she started taking songwriting classes. That's where she learned about Bill Monroe, Hazel Dickens, Gillian Welch, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell and that's also where she started discovering her own voice as a songwriter. In late March of 2019, she came by the studios of Beehive Productions in Saranac Lake, NY to share some thoughts about her musical history and also to share some music from her debut full-length album, When You're Ready.

Folk Alley Sessions

(Originally posted in April 2019)Molly Tuttle knew from the time she was 4 that she wanted music to be a big part of her life. Now based in Nashville, this young, incredibly talented and much-awarded musician grew up in a musical household and tried a few different instruments, including fiddle, before realizing that guitar was the instrument that spoke most directly to her. By the time she was 11, she was making music with friends in the local pizza joint, and a few years after that, she started taking songwriting classes. That’s where she learned about Bill Monroe, Hazel Dickens, Gillian Welch, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell and that’s also where she started discovering her own voice as a songwriter. In late March of 2019, she came by the studios of Beehive Productions in Saranac Lake, NY to share some thoughts about her musical history and also to share some music from her debut full-length album, When You’re Ready.

Folk Alley Sessions

(Originally posted in April 2019)Molly Tuttle knew from the time she was 4 that she wanted music to be a big part of her life. Now based in Nashville, this young, incredibly talented and much-awarded musician grew up in a musical household and tried a few different instruments, including fiddle, before realizing that guitar was the instrument that spoke most directly to her. By the time she was 11, she was making music with friends in the local pizza joint, and a few years after that, she started taking songwriting classes. That’s where she learned about Bill Monroe, Hazel Dickens, Gillian Welch, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell and that’s also where she started discovering her own voice as a songwriter. In late March of 2019, she came by the studios of Beehive Productions in Saranac Lake, NY to share some thoughts about her musical history and also to share some music from her debut full-length album, When You’re Ready.

Folk Alley Sessions

(Originally posted in April 2019)Molly Tuttle knew from the time she was 4 that she wanted music to be a big part of her life. Now based in Nashville, this young, incredibly talented and much-awarded musician grew up in a musical household and tried a few different instruments, including fiddle, before realizing that guitar was the instrument that spoke most directly to her. By the time she was 11, she was making music with friends in the local pizza joint, and a few years after that, she started taking songwriting classes. That’s where she learned about Bill Monroe, Hazel Dickens, Gillian Welch, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell and that’s also where she started discovering her own voice as a songwriter. In late March of 2019, she came by the studios of Beehive Productions in Saranac Lake, NY to share some thoughts about her musical history and also to share some music from her debut full-length album, When You’re Ready.

Folk Alley Sessions

(Originally posted in April 2019)Molly Tuttle knew from the time she was 4 that she wanted music to be a big part of her life. Now based in Nashville, this young, incredibly talented and much-awarded musician grew up in a musical household and tried a few different instruments, including fiddle, before realizing that guitar was the instrument that spoke most directly to her. By the time she was 11, she was making music with friends in the local pizza joint, and a few years after that, she started taking songwriting classes. That’s where she learned about Bill Monroe, Hazel Dickens, Gillian Welch, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell and that’s also where she started discovering her own voice as a songwriter. In late March of 2019, she came by the studios of Beehive Productions in Saranac Lake, NY to share some thoughts about her musical history and also to share some music from her debut full-length album, When You’re Ready.

Folk Alley Sessions

(Originally posted in April 2019)Molly Tuttle knew from the time she was 4 that she wanted music to be a big part of her life. Now based in Nashville, this young, incredibly talented and much-awarded musician grew up in a musical household and tried a few different instruments, including fiddle, before realizing that guitar was the instrument that spoke most directly to her. By the time she was 11, she was making music with friends in the local pizza joint, and a few years after that, she started taking songwriting classes. That’s where she learned about Bill Monroe, Hazel Dickens, Gillian Welch, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell and that’s also where she started discovering her own voice as a songwriter. In late March of 2019, she came by the studios of Beehive Productions in Saranac Lake, NY to share some thoughts about her musical history and also to share some music from her debut full-length album, When You’re Ready.

Folk Alley Sessions

(Originally posted in April 2019)Molly Tuttle knew from the time she was 4 that she wanted music to be a big part of her life. Now based in Nashville, this young, incredibly talented and much-awarded musician grew up in a musical household and tried a few different instruments, including fiddle, before realizing that guitar was the instrument that spoke most directly to her. By the time she was 11, she was making music with friends in the local pizza joint, and a few years after that, she started taking songwriting classes. That's where she learned about Bill Monroe, Hazel Dickens, Gillian Welch, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell and that's also where she started discovering her own voice as a songwriter. In late March of 2019, she came by the studios of Beehive Productions in Saranac Lake, NY to share some thoughts about her musical history and also to share some music from her debut full-length album, When You're Ready.

WUNC's Songs We Love Podcast
Come Hear NC On Songs We Love: Freight Train

WUNC's Songs We Love Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2019 19:15


We've teamed up with Come Hear NC on a podcast series that explores North Carolina music one song at a time. On this episode, folk musician Alice Gerrard talks about Elizabeth Cotten's 'Freight Train.' On Saturday night at Red Hat Amphitheater in Raleigh, an all-star group of musicians pays tribute to the music Alice Gerrard made with Hazel Dickens. Most of the seats are free. Then on Sunday in Elizabeth Cotten's hometown of Carrboro, there will be free music all over town at the Carrboro Music Festival . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUK8emiWabU

The Next Picture Show
#190: Which Side Are You On? Pt. 1 - Harlan County, USA

The Next Picture Show

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2019 57:01


The new Netflix documentary AMERICAN FACTORY is funnier than Barbara Kopple’s 1976 Oscar-winning documentary HARLAN COUNTY USA, and not nearly as fraught with violence, but it pivots on many of the same core tensions between workers and corporate bosses. In this half of our pairing of labor struggles past and present, we look back at HARLAN COUNTY to see how the time Kopple’s team spent embedded in Harlan County shaped the film, as well as the 1973 miners strike it depicts; how the film’s style reflects Kopple’s involvement with the Maysles brothers and direct cinema; and which of Harlan County’s colorful residents leave the biggest mark on the film. Plus, we respond to some feedback on recent episodes and go over some of the dozens of suggestions we got for 2019 pairings we received when we recently put the call out on Twitter. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about HARLAN COUNTY USA, AMERICAN FACTORY, or anything else film-related, by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Outro music: Hazel Dickens, “They’ll Never Keep Us Down” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ozark Highlands Radio
OHR Presents: Lula Wiles

Ozark Highlands Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2019 58:59


Ozark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s historic 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas. In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region. This week, Smithsonian Folkways artists and award winning Boston, Massachusetts progressive folk trio “Lula Wiles” recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with these bright Boston bards. Lula Wiles is a Boston based progressive folk trio consisting of Isa Burke, Eleanor Buckland, and Mali Obomsawin. Their blending of instrumental virtuosity, intricate three part harmony singing, and visionary songwriting has quickly ushered them to the forefront of modern American contemporary folk music. With the recent release of their Smithsonian Folkways album “What Will We Do,” the trio now joins the ranks of America’s most important folk artists. “Long before they were in a band together, the members of Lula Wiles were singing folk songs and trading fiddle tunes at camp in Maine. ‘All of us were lucky to have access to the folk music community at a young age,’ Burke says. “The music traditions that we’re drawing on are social, community-building traditions.” On those warm summer nights, playing music was just plain fun. But the members of Lula Wiles carry those early lessons of community and the meaning of shared art with them to this day, as they seek to create music that questions cultural virtues, soothes aching wounds, and envisions a better world. “Lula Wiles came of age in Boston, in the practice rooms of Berklee College of Music and the city’s lively roots scene. In 2016, the band self-released Lula Wiles, a sensitive, twang-tinged collection of originals. Since then, they have toured internationally, winning fans at the Newport Folk Festival and the Philadelphia Folk Festival, and sharing stages with the likes of Aoife O’Donovan, the Wood Brothers, and Tim O’Brien. “Now, the release of What Will We Do on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings places the group squarely in line with some of its deepest influences, from the protest anthems of Woody Guthrie to the trailblazing songs of Elizabeth Cotten and Hazel Dickens. (Even the band’s name is a twist on an old Carter Family song.)” - http://www.lulawiles.com/bio/ In this week’s “From the Vault” segment, musician, educator and country music legacy Mark Jones offers a 1983 archival recording of Ozark original fiddler, Roger Fountain, performing the traditional tune “Saint Anne’s Reel,” from the Ozark Folk Center State Park archives. Author, folklorist and songwriter Charley Sandage presents an historical portrait of the people, events and indomitable spirit of Ozark culture that resulted in the creation of the Ozark Folk Center State Park and its enduring legacy of music and craft. In this episode, Charley speaks with environmentalist and author Richard Mason on the question “What’s Worth Keeping” from our past in the rapidly evolving culture of our present.

The String
Kathy Mattea

The String

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2018 59:20


Episode 74: Kathy Mattea's new album Pretty Bird is her first release in six years. In the time between, she's struggled through some problems with her voice and in so doing reached outside of her musical comfort zones. After a couple of albums dedicated to exploring her Appalachian heritage, this one's more eclectic. She calls it a journey back to singing for the sheer joy of it. Mattea has always been a gifted interpreter from her younger days as a Music Row demo singer through her years as CMA Female Vocalist of the Year in 1989 and 90. Here she sings "Ode To Billie Joe," Bobbie Gentry's mesmerizing hit from 1967, and an old traditional Irish ballad and Mary Gauthier's new gospel Americana anthem "Mercy Now." But the title track, which closes the album, declares her continued allegiance to the old music of West Virginia. It's by Hazel Dickens, herself a WV Music Hall of Famer and one of the most influential and powerful women to ever work in folk and bluegrass music. She's a hero to Mattea and many others for her undiluted mountain sound and her down to earth feminism. Later in the show we're going to hear the late great Hazel Dickens on tape from a biographical interview.

The Breakdown
Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard

The Breakdown

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2018 43:28


The 1976 album Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (not to be confused with their earlier recording Hazel and Alice) is dissected, a release that came out after the unlikely duo already broke up. Hazel and Alice have become one of the most influential artists in the history of bluegrass, tackling subjects that range from racial injustice to the hardships of being a working woman in their music.

Director's Club
Episode 154: John Sayles

Director's Club

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2018 216:13


In this episode, the Director's Club takes a journey through the many amazing works of legendary independent filmmaker John Sayles.  Joined sporadically by Now Playing Network uber-guru (and Director's Club founder!) Jim Laczkowski, we explore a career filled with complex characters and stories illuminating many kinds of cultures, communities, and social concerns, all while providing a level of quality, honesty, and deep humanism to films ranging from science fiction to children's fable to sports movie, to maybe the ultimate Western mystery about the country's borders and its pasts. (11:06) "Return of the Secaucus Seven" ("Reelin In the Years", Steely Dan) (27:58) "Lianna" ("Be Yourself", Audioslave) (43:52) "Baby, It's You" / Bruce Springsteen videos ("If I Was Frank Sinatra", Soulvitamins) (58:36) "Brother From Another Planet" ("Starman", David Bowie) (1:10:15) "Matewan" ("Fire In the Hole", Hazel Dickens) (1:31:30) "Eight Men Out"("Born to Lose", Johnny Thunders) (1:47:39) "City of Hope" ("Progress", Bad Religion) (2:04:27) "Passion Fish" ("Don't Give Up", Peter Gabriel w/ Kate Bush) (2:15:59) "The Secret of Roan Inish" ("On an Island", David Gilmour) (2:28:41) "Lone Star" / "Men With Guns" ("I Shot the Sheriff", Eric Clapton) (3:05:31) "Limbo" / Brief looks from "Sunshine State" through "Go For Sisters" ("Limbo", Brian Ferry)

Working Class History
E8: The Vietnam war strike wave

Working Class History

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2018 55:29


First episode in our series about the Vietnam war in which we talk to historian and author of Strike! Jeremy Brecher about the strike wave which swept the United States during the Vietnam war in the 1960s and 70s. Listen to it and support us here: https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory Get Strike! online here: https://amzn.to/2xLugWv Jeremy's website is at https://www.jeremybrecher.org His organisation, Labor Network for Sustainability, is at https://www.labor4sustainability.org FOOTNOTES - Vietnam war - this is a short history: https://libcom.org/history/articles/vietnam-war - Montgomery bus boycott - this is a short account: https://libcom.org/history/more-seat-bus-danielle-mcguire - This is an informative pamphlet about the struggles at the Lordstown plant: https://libcom.org/library/lordstown-struggle-ken-weller - Jeremy and Tim Costello's book which was the result of these interviews, Common Sense for Hard Times, is online here: https://libcom.org/history/common-sense-hard-times You can also purchase it here: https://amzn.to/2pqWNgg - 1970 postal workers wildcat strike: https://libcom.org/history/national-us-postal-service-wildcat-strike-1970-jeremy-brecher - 1970 Teamsters wildcat strike: https://libcom.org/history/teamsters-wildcat-strike-1970-jeremy-brecher - 1969 black lung strike - more info here: https://libcom.org/library/wildcats-appalachian-coal-fields-william-cleaver-zerowork - 1968 Chicago transport workers wildcat strike - more info here: https://libcom.org/history/chicago-1968 - 1968 Memphis sanitation strike: https://libcom.org/history/memphis-sanitation-strike-1968 - 1973 meat boycott: more info about this in Common Sense, page 110, link above - General Motors strike: https://libcom.org/history/union-management-gm-strike-1970-jeremy-brecher ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This episode was edited by Emma Courtland: https://www.emmacourtland.com/ The music today was Black Lung by Hazel Dickens, used under Fair Use: purchase it here: https://amzn.to/2O3Uv4i

Audio Interference
Audio Interference 53: Appalachian Movement Press

Audio Interference

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2018 13:40


“They saw this region as affected by a kind of colonial influence from the larger urban areas, sort of extracting resources from Central Appalachia historically, for over a hundred years, and not giving anything back.” In this episode of Audio Interference, we're looking into Appalachian Movement Press, an offset print shop and publishing house that was based in Huntington, West Virginia, from 1969 – 1979. We speak with Shaun Slifer, artist, writer, self-taught historian, and Creative Director & Curator at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, about his research into Appalachian Movement Press and about the identity movement in Appalachia in the 70s. To learn more about the article Shaun wrote for Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture: justseeds.org/product/signal06/ You can read an excerpt of Shaun’s article in the Signal:06 issue here: justseeds.org/appalachian-moveme…rpt-from-signal06/ And to learn more about Shaun’s research process, see: justseeds.org/underground-publis…an-movement-press/ Music in this episode is from the album They’ll Never Keep Us Down: Women’s Coal Mining Songs. A copy of the album is available at the archive. Song credits (listed in order): “Dream of a Miner’s Child” (adapted by Phyllis Boyens, Hazel Dickens and Ken Irwin) sung by Phyllis Boyens “Hello Coal Miner” (Sarah Ogan Gunning) sung by Sarah Gunning “Coal Mining Woman” (Hazel Dickens) sung by Hazel Dickens Produced by Interference Archive.

Audio Interference
Audio Interference 53: Appalachian Movement Press

Audio Interference

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2018 13:40


"They saw this region as affected by a kind of colonial influence from the larger urban areas, sort of extracting resources from Central Appalachia historically, for over a hundred years, and not giving anything back." In this episode of Audio Interference, we’re looking into Appalachian Movement Press, an offset print shop and publishing house that was based in Huntington, West Virginia, from 1969 - 1979. We speak with Shaun Slifer, artist, writer, self-taught historian, and Creative Director & Curator at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, about his research into Appalachian Movement Press and about the identity movement in Appalachia in the 70s. To learn more about the article Shaun wrote for Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture: https://justseeds.org/product/signal06/ You can read an excerpt of Shaun's article in the Signal:06 issue here: https://justseeds.org/appalachian-movement-press-an-excerpt-from-signal06/ And to learn more about Shaun's research process, see: https://justseeds.org/underground-publishing-in-west-virginia-during-the-1970s-researching-appalachian-movement-press/ Music in this episode is from the album They'll Never Keep Us Down: Women's Coal Mining Songs. A copy of the album is available at the archive. Song credits (listed in order): "Dream of a Miner's Child" (adapted by Phyllis Boyens, Hazel Dickens and Ken Irwin) sung by Phyllis Boyens "Hello Coal Miner" (Sarah Ogan Gunning) sung by Sarah Gunning "Coal Mining Woman" (Hazel Dickens) sung by Hazel Dickens Produced by Interference Archive.

Ginger Anne's Jam Bands Podcast
Bluegrass Ladies: Women's History Month : Hazel Dickens, I'm With Her, Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosez, Aoife O'donnovan, Della Mae, Fruition, Molly Tuttle, Allie Kral, Yonder Mountain String Band, Warren Haynes

Ginger Anne's Jam Bands Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2018 30:55


NPR's Mountain Stage
Memorial Special: Allen Toussaint, John Hartford, Hazel Dickens, Odetta, Guy Clark & more

NPR's Mountain Stage

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2017


This weeks Mountain Stage with Larry Groce is a special that honors the memory of many great artists who appeared on the show over the years. Hear archived performances from trailblazers including Buckwheat Zydeco, Allen Toussaint, Guy Clark, Odetta, John Hartford, Warren Zevon, Suzzy and Maggie Roche, John Trudell, Alex Chilton, Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, Jean Ritchie, Ralph Stanley, David Morris, Hazel Dickens and Larry Coryell. Hosted by Mountain Stage host/artistic director Larry Groce and assistant producer Joni Deutsch.

StoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups
131: Hod Pharis: "I Heard the Bluebirds Sing"

StoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2017 6:51


This week on StoryWeb: Hod Pharis’s song “I Heard the Bluebirds Sing.” In honor of the first day of spring I first encountered Canadian songwriter Hod Pharis’s song “I Heard the Bluebirds Sing” on Pathway to West Virginia, the first album recorded by Ginny Hawker and Kay Justice. It was 1989, and my good friend Rolf had just returned from a road trip that had taken him through West Virginia. Rolf was the quintessential lover of old-time and early country music. He and his sister had been at a rest stop, and he asked about the music being played. The clerk said, “Oh, yes! Great album! Ginny Hawker and Kay Justice.” Rolf bought a cassette tape and brought it back to our group of grad school friends in Madison, Wisconsin. We were all entirely captivated and mesmerized by these two singers – such beautiful voices, exquisite but often unusual harmonies, Ginny’s Primitive Baptist cadence blending with Kay’s alto. “I Heard the Bluebirds Sing” quickly became our favorite cut from the album. Oh, how we loved the story of the young man who meets a girl in the hills. She sweetly steals his heart, and they plan to be married in the spring, which seems like it will never come. But eventually spring arrives, and their wedding is “just like a dream come true.” Such a lovely tale, such a sweet and joyous song. What was not to love? We were so inspired by the song, in fact, that we figured out how to play and sing it. I played my violin – which I was learning to play more like a fiddle and less like the classical violin I’d grown up playing in school. Bill played guitar. Deb, Rolf, and Wendy joined in on the singing, and we memorized the intricate lyrics. We finally had it all together and “performed” it on my screened-in, second-floor porch one summer day. When we finished, we were surprised to hear applause erupt from outside – my neighbors had enjoyed hearing our rendition. Within a couple of years, I had taken a job as an English professor in West Virginia and had met Ginny and Kay, both of whom I count among my beloved Appalachian friends. I love hearing them sing at festivals and in late-night jam sessions afterward. And of course, I love listening to their many recordings. Together, they’ve recorded Come All You Tenderhearted and Bristol: A Tribute to the Carter Family. Ginny appears with Hazel Dickens and Carol Elizabeth Jones on Heart of a Singer. She also recorded The Family Reunion: Three Generations of Southern Singing with her father, Ben Hawker, and her daughter, Heidi Christopher. Ginny has also recorded solo albums, Letters from My Father and After It’s Gone, frequently backed by her husband, fiddler Tracy Schwarz. Ginny and Tracy together have released two albums, Good Songs for Hard Times and Draw Closer. Next week, Kay will release Tear Down the Fences, recorded with bluegrass pioneer Alice Gerrard. The first cut is – wait for it! – “I Heard the Bluebirds Sing.” Though this will always be Ginny and Kay’s song to me, the composer is actually Alberta’s Hod Pharis, and the song – written in 1952 – has been recorded by numerous acts. Though Pharis recorded a couple of versions of the song in the 1950s, it did not become a hit until it was recorded in 1957 by The Browns (a trio comprised of Jim Ed Brown and his sisters, Maxine and Bonnie). The Browns took the song to number four on the U.S. Billboard country charts. After the song hit it big, many other acts recorded it, making it one of the most recorded songs written by a Canadian. Given its great success, “I Heard the Bluebirds Sing” was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015. Visit thestoryweb.com/pharis for links to all these resources and to get a taste of Ginny and Kay’s beautiful singing on a recording of “On the Rock Where Moses Stood.” You can also watch the Browns sing their chart-topping hit, “I Heard the Bluebirds Sing.” If you’ve been waiting for winter to end, you’ll enjoy this song about the joyous arrival of spring.

Polyrical
P3 - Feminism | Hazel Dickens

Polyrical

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2017 60:58


The Real History (of the US) | Tha Truth : Tha People's Music Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States Mitch Daniels | David Rovics : All the News That's Fit to Sing Fight Like a Girl | Bomshel : Fight Like a Girl (Bonus Track Version) Can't Hold Us Down (feat. Lil' Kim) | Christina Aguilera : Stripped This Is For My Girls | Kelly Clarkson, Chloe x Halle, Missy Elliott, Jadagrace, Lea Michele, Janelle Monáe, Kelly Rowland & Zendaya : This Is For My Girls - Single Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves | Eurythmics : Ultimate Collection (Remastered) The Rebel Girl | Hazel Dickens : Don't Mourn-Organize! Songs Of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill Black Lung | Hazel Dickens : Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways Will Jesus Wash The Bloodstains From Your Hands? | Hazel Dickens : Folk Alliance International presents Songs of War and Politics Vol. 1 They'll Never Keep Us Down | Hazel Dickens : Harlan County USA: Songs of the Coal Miner's Struggle Work For Peace | Gil Scott-Heron : Gascd. You Can (Mass Trespass, 1932) | Chumbawamba : A Singsong and a Scrap

Virginia Historical Society Podcasts
Patsy Cline and a Changing South

Virginia Historical Society Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2016 37:15


On April 4, 2008, Mr. Malone delivered this talk at the 2008 symposium, 'Sweet Dreams: The Life and Times of Patsy Cline.' Bill Malone is Professor of History, Emeritus, at Tulane University. He is author of Country Music, U.S.A.; Southern Music, American Music; Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class; and to be published this June, Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens. He also produced and annotated the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Country Music. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow. He has delivered the Lamar Lecture at Mercer University, published as Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music. He has served as a joint visiting scholar at Duke and the University of North Carolina. His weekly radio show, "Back to the Country," on Madison, Wisconsin's WORT-FM has been on the air for years and has regularly garnered listeners' choice awards. In all, he continues is his role as the dean of country music scholarship, combining, in his words, "the passionate predilections of the fan . . . with the wary skepticism of the scholar." (Introduction by Nelson D. Lankford) The content and opinions expressed in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.

CiTR -- Pacific Pickin'
March 8, 2016

CiTR -- Pacific Pickin'

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2016 120:01


Our Salute to International Women's Day - all the songs except the two themes were written by women songwriters with three special sets saluting Cindy Walker, Dixie Hall and Hazel Dickens.

P2 Dokumentär
Joe Hill 100 år

P2 Dokumentär

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2016 37:33


Joe Hill är arbetarsångaren som fälldes och avrättades för mord efter en riggad rättegång i USA. Men hans sånger lever. Det visar sig bl a i den turné Jan Hammarlund tar oss med på. Joe Hill föddes i Gävle 1879 och emigrerade till USA 1902. Han var närmast yrkeskvalificerad som musiker men drog sig fram som diversearbetare i USA, och anslöt sig så småningom till syndikalistiska IWW (Industrial Workers of the World). Han gjorde succé med sina sånger och blev en arbetarrörelsens frontfigur. 1914 åtalades han på praktiskt taget obefintliga grunder för ett dubbelmord i Salt Lake City, Utah. Den allmänna uppfattningen sedan dess har varit att han föll offer för en samvetslös komplott riktad mot arbetarrörelsen.Joe Hill avrättades 19 november 1915. Till 100-årsminnet av hans död har Jan Hammarlund rest runt med THE JOE HILL ROAD SHOW i trakterna runt Lake Michigan och berättar i programmet om hur arvet efter Joe lever vidare och utvecklas i USA och andra länder.I programmet medverkar: Alexis Buss, facklig aktivist och författare Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, facklig aktivist JP Wright, järnvägsarbetare och sångare Patty Allen, facklig aktivist Göran Greider, författare  - samt artisterna: Anne Feeney, JP Wright, Bucky Halker, Lil Rev, Jason Eklund, Earl Robinson, Paul Robeson, Joan Baez, Mora Träsk, Billy Bragg, Pierre Ström, Manhattan Chorus, Hazel Dickens, Solidarity Singers, Finn Zetterholm, Massimo Liberatori, Enric Hernáez och Lovisa Samuelsson.

The Mike Harding Folk Show
Mike Harding Folk Show 113

The Mike Harding Folk Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2015 82:57


PODCAST: 22 Feb 2015 01 – Yarmouth Town – Bellowhead – Hedonism02 – I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight – Richard Thompson – Acoustic Classics03 – Gypsy – Addison’s Uncle – I’d Like To Tell A Story04 – The Streets Of New York – The Wolftones – The Greatst Hits05 – Dashing Away – Edward II – Wicked Men06 – The One I Love Is Gone – Hazel Dickens And Alice Gerrard – Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass07 – Limbo People – Kieran Halpin – Crystal Ball Gazing08 – Little Musgrave 1 & 2 Sword In Hand – Hanz Araki and Kathryn Claire09 – Made Of Light – Kara – Waters So Deep10 – The Orchard – Sean Tyrell – The Orchard11 – 1952 Vincent Black Lightning – Del McCoury Band – Del and The Boys12 – Circle For Danny – Duncan McFarlane Band – Marked Out In Pegs13 – Barratts Privateers – The McCalmans – Peace and Plenty14 – The Heart Of The World – Iarla Ó Lionáird – Foxlight15 – Gweebarra Shore – Maggie Boyle – Gweebarra

Sound Journal
Sound Journal 006

Sound Journal

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2014


Our quiet hobo has been studying electronic music on Pandora and discovered a new genre called Minimalist Techno, so prepare yourself for longer, more subtle riffs. He does request that you listen with headphones to help induce a more trance-like state. Once in a trance he hopes to convince you that his music is wonderful and great and that you will become a cult follower of his podcast. The remaining pieces are simply filler noise and the cast ends with a memorable song by the late, great Hazel Dickens. Lets hear it for Hazel! Download

MAD TOAST LIVE!
Episode 250 - Oak Street Ramblers

MAD TOAST LIVE!

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2012 52:33


Though their influences hail from much further south, the Oak Street Ramblers call home the East Side of Madison, WI. A bluegrass band in the tradition of Flatt and Scruggs, Jimmy Martin, and Hazel Dickens, the Oak Street Ramblers specialize in bluegrass stompers, classic country weepers, and originals that, lyrical content aside, wouldn't sound out of place at a barn dance circa 1954. http://www.reverbnation.com/theoakstreetramblers Video  http://youtu.be/Sha-oQHGAl4

webSYNradio
Martha Rosler - Thanksgiving 2011

webSYNradio

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2011


Programme de Martha Rosler pour webSYNradio : Sept heures en compagnie de Abbie Hoffman, Harry Partch, Patsy Cline, Captain Beefheart, The Fugs, Red Krayola, Joan Baez, Hazel Dickens, Florence Reese, Violeta Parra, Janis Joplin, Sarah Vaughan, Eric Dolphy, Tracey Chapman, Nico, Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys, Keith Whitley, Jackson Mac Low and Anne Tardos, Thelonious Monk, J. S.Bach, Bob Marley, Amanda Palmer, Pauline Oliveros, Allen Ginsberg, Otis Redding, Evan Wilson, Sam Cooke, John Cale, Rolf Schulte and Philharmonia Orchestra, Arnold Schönberg, Lord Buckley, Shir hashirim,Ray Charles, Umm Kulthum, Aretha Franklin, Prince, Bill Withers, Bessie Smith, The Penguins, Yaakov Yosef Stark, Pt.Himangshu Biswas, Emil Gilels, W.A. Mozart, Bertolt Brecht, Joan Armatrading, Neko Case, Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers, Cobra Skulls, Hot Edgard Varése, Bukka White, Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, Billy Bragg, Jimi Hendrix …

WTJU Folk's Podcast
Rita Hosking Interview on The Cosmic American Jamboree, Part 1 (of 2)

WTJU Folk's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2011 17:20


Americana singer/songwriter Rita Hosking sat down for an interview with Lonesome George of The Cosmic American Jamboree, which originally aired on WTJU (91.1 FM Charlottesville, streaming at http://wtju.net/stream).  Visit our Facebook page for additional information. Music Aired (Tune, Artist, Album, Year, Label): Song 1: Dream of a Miner's Child, Rita Hosking, Silver Stream, 2007, Self Song 2: Old Calloused Hands, Hazel Dickens, Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People, 1998, Rounder Song 3: The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia, Rita Hosking with Sean Feder, Live In The 16 To 1 Mine (EP), 2010, Self

Podcasts @ Boatwright
Kelly Landers – Student Researcher

Podcasts @ Boatwright

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2011 0:01


Kelly Landers, a 2011 graduate of the University of Richmond, talks about her honors thesis, “Freedom’s Disciple: the Life, Music, and Impact of Hazel Dickens.”  Kelly majored in Interdisciplinary Studies (Ethnomusicology) and Leadership Studies, with a minor in Anthropology, and … Continue reading →

Tapestry of the Times

We'll get an introduction to the legendary blind bluesman Reverend Gary Davis, we'll hear the harmonies of lady bluegrass pioneers Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerard, and we'll listen to the resonant, baritone voice of singer and activist Paul Robeson...... plus Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and world music from Mali to Cuba.

Tapestry of the Times

We check out some historical duet performances from old-time music virtuosos Doc Watson and Bill Monroe, Piedmont Blues legends John Cephas and Phil Wiggins, and women bluegrass pioneers Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard and the hypnotizing sounds of Indian Tabla Tarang master Pandit Kamalesh Maitra.

CiTR -- Folk Oasis
Broadcast on 27-Apr-2011

CiTR -- Folk Oasis

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2011 123:02


On tonight's show we paid musical tribute to bluegrass pioneer Hazel Dickens, who passed away this week. We also took a sneak peek at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival lineup, which is now up on their website. (http://www.thefestival.bc.ca) GAK of CiTR's Monday evening Exploding Head Movies show joined me in the booth for some chitchat. Nice to have you, Gary!All the best, and happy voting on May 2..cheers, valfolkoasis@gmail.com

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CiTR -- Pacific Pickin'
Broadcast on 26-Apr-2011

CiTR -- Pacific Pickin'

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2011 120:21


Artist feature: Hazel Dickens

CiTR -- Pacific Pickin'
Broadcast on 01-Jun-2010

CiTR -- Pacific Pickin'

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2010 121:06


Artist Feature is Hazel Dickens.

Virginia Historical Society Podcasts
Patsy Cline and a Changing South, from Depression to Postwar Affluence

Virginia Historical Society Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2010 37:15


On April 4, 2008, Mr. Malone delivered this talk at the 2008 symposium, 'Sweet Dreams: The Life and Times of Patsy Cline.' Bill Malone is Professor of History, Emeritus, at Tulane University. He is author of Country Music, U.S.A.; Southern Music, American Music; Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class; and to be published this June, Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens. He also produced and annotated the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Country Music. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow. He has delivered the Lamar Lecture at Mercer University, published as Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music. He has served as a joint visiting scholar at Duke and the University of North Carolina. His weekly radio show, "Back to the Country," on Madison, Wisconsin's WORT-FM has been on the air for years and has regularly garnered listeners' choice awards. In all, he continues is his role as the dean of country music scholarship, combining, in his words, "the passionate predilections of the fan . . . with the wary skepticism of the scholar." (Introduction by Nelson D. Lankford)

Sounds to Grow On
Bluegrass (Program #6)

Sounds to Grow On

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2009 58:07


This hour features bluegrass music on Folkways Records. Bluegrass is a style developed mostly in Appalachia that combines the music of Scots-Irish, African-American, jazz and blues. Michael presents a personal journey, choosing from those performances he considers 'classic.' Performers include Bill Monroe, Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, Roger Sprung, The Country Gentlemen, The Lily Brothers, Eric Weisberg, Ralph Rinzler and Mike Seeger. Smithsonian Folkways: Sounds to Grow On is a 26-part series hosted by Michael Asch that features the original recordings of Folkways Records.