Watch Hazel Dickens, singer, songwriter, and spokesperson for Women's and Workers' Rights sing "West Virginia, My Home" at the 2003 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. 'Pioneering Women of Bluegrass' by ...

He works in mysterious ways.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...