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Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People
Item
12 - Inch LP
Identifier:
IA.ITM.002576-->
Description
Folk album by Hazel Dickens. LP cover has a signature by Hazel Dickens.Excerpt from liner notes:
"In West Virginia where Hazel Dickens was born and raised the coal camps were numerous, the wages low, the families large and poor. Hazel's father was a powerful singer, a sometime banjo-picker, a primitive Baptist preacher who took care of his wife and eleven children by farming a bit a using his truck to haul timbers for a mines and coal for the miners to heat their houses...What is unmistakable, weather she is singing on a picket line, in a concert hall, or at a national convention of the United Mine Workers, is that Hazel has chosen to put herself and her music to work for the benefit of people faced with struggle- for wages, fo rights, for their very survival. The vocal style she uses, strident vigorous and harsh, or wistful, lonesome and melancholy are those of a country woman who identifies with the most basic aesthetic and ethical values of her people. Those are people born of strife and challenged with it for life. The people know it, Hazel knows it, and generations who follow us and who have forgotten the top ten tunes on today's pop and country music charts ill know and respect it because hers is art of timeless and enduring values"
Related people
Hazel Dickens (artist)Rounder Records (publisher)