Hazel Dickens, of course, is the musical coal mining country “mountain girl” who’s broken more than one mold in her remarkable lifetime. Not content just to cry in the holler, stick to safe topics or ...

Musician Hazel Dickens (June 1, 1935-April 22, 2011) was born in Mercer County, the eighth of 11 children. She was a pioneering old-time and bluegrass musician, known for preserving the traditional ...

To hear Alice Gerrard tell it, when she and her musical partner Hazel Dickens began singing together in the 1960s, they never imagined the revolutionary Hall-of-Fame career they were setting in motion ...

They're separated by four decades of age and several degrees of exposure to the music business, but at this rare Gotham summit, Appalachian products Hazel Dickens and Will Oldham came across as ...

Hazel Dickens, a troubadour of hard times whose raw, heartfelt songs about coal miners and the life of the downtrodden made her a revered figure in country and bluegrass music, died April 22 at the ...

Hazel Dickens was still in her teens when her family moved from Mercer County, West Virginia, to Baltimore in 1954. In this unlikely locale, one of the most important singers in bluegrass and ...

PIPESTEM, WV (WVNS) – One of the most important names in the state’s musical history is being recognized this weekend as Hazel Dickens is set to be inducted into the West Virginia Hall of Fame at ...

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 ...

Hazel Jane Dickens was a folksinger and activist born in 1935. She sang pro-union and feminist songs way before it was fashionable. Advertisement Article continues below this ad She sang anthems of ...

Trailblazing female bluegrass singer-guitarist Hazel Dickens died April 22 in Washington, D.C., of complications from pneumonia. She was 75. Daughter of a large West Virginia coal-mining family, ...

Dickens and Gerrard were successful solo folk musicians who also shared an eclectic approach to music. A new album of previously unreleased recordings feature the pair "unvarnished" and "unplugged." ...

Still churning out songs ""that challenge the easy complacency and corporate arrogance of our time,"" influential Appalachian singer-songwriter Hazel Dickens has devoted her life to writing music not ...