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Posted By: Joe Offer
24-Apr-13 - 03:19 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Hazel Dickens (1 Jun 1935 - 22 April 2011)
Subject: Hazel Dickens Discography
Somebody asked me for a discography of Hazel Dickens recordings, with track listings. Here's what I've come up with so far. Except for the three albums noted (a compilation and two albums now sold as one), all these recordings are for sale at Amazon as MP3 or CD, or both.
Hazel Dickens Discography
Albums Recorded With Alice Gerrard
Who's That Knocking (1965) (no longer available)
Walkin' In My Sleep Can't You Hear Me Calling Darling Nellie Across The Sea Difficult Run Coal Miner's Blues Gabriel's Call Just Another Broken Heart Take Me Back To Tulsa Who's That Knocking? Cowboy Jim Long Black Veil Lee Highway Blues Lover's Return Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling
Strange Creek Singers (Arhoolie, 1970) – Also with Mike Seeger and Tracy Schwarz
1. When I Can Read My Titles Clear 2. In The Pines 3. Sunny Side Of Life 4. Poor Old Dirt Farmer 5. Sally Ann 6. I Truly Understand That You Love Another 7. Old Black Choo Choo 8. Today Has Been A Lonesome Day 9. No Never No 10. New River Train 11. Get Acquainted Waltz 12. Will The Circle Be Unbroken 13. Black Lung 14. Difficult Run Pt. 2
Won't You Come & Sing for Me (1973) (no longer available)
I Just Got Wise Please Mommy Please T.B. Blues Sugar Free Stomp (Instrumental) Memories Of Mother & Dad Train On The Island Won't You Come & Sing For Me? A Tiny Broken Heart A Distant Land To Roam John Henry (Instrumental) Weary Lonesome Blues The One I Love Is Gone
Hazel & Alice (Rounder Records, 1973)
1. Mining Camp Blues 2. Hello Stranger 3. The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia 4. A Few More Years Shall Roll 5. Two Soldiers 6. The Sweetest Gift A Mother's Smile 7. Tomorrow I'll Be Gone 8. My Better Years 9. Custom Made Woman Blues 10. Don't Put Her Down You Helped Put Her There 11. You Gave Me A Song 12. Pretty Bird 13. Gallop to Kansas
Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (Rounder Records, 1975)
1. Let That Liar Alone 2. When I Loved You 3. Working Girl Blues 4. West Virginia My Home 5. Mama's Gonna Stay 6. Montana Cowboy 7. Mean Papa Blues 8. Nice Like That 9. Mary Johnson 10. Ramblin' Woman 11. Beaufort County Jail 12. Banjo Picking Girl 13. James Alley Blues 14. True Life Blues
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard: Pioneering Women of Bluegrass (Smithsonian Folkways, 1996) – Re-mastered and re-sequenced compilation of "Who's That Knocking" and "Won't You Come & Sing For Me"
1. TB Blues [or They're at Rest Together] (Walter Callahan) 2. The One I Love is Gone (Bill Monroe) 3. Who's That Knocking? (Traditional) 4. Walkin' in My Sleep (Traditional) 5. Won't You Come and Sing for Me (Hazel Dickens) 6. Can't You Hear Me Calling (Bill Monroe) 7. Darling Nellie Across the Sea (A.P. Carter) 8. Coal Miner's Blues (A.P. Carter) 9. Sugar Tree Stomp (Arthur Smith) 10. Train on the Island (songwriter not listed in CD booklet) 11. Cowboy Jim (Hazel Dickens) 12. Lee Highway Blues (songwriter not listed) 13. Memories of Mother and Dad (Bill Monroe) 14. Long Black Veil (Wilkin/Dill) 15. Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar (Delmore Brothers) 16. Difficult Run (Lamar Grier) 17. Mommy Please Stay Home with Me (Arnold/Hall/Fowler) 18. Gabriel's Call (Hazel Dickens A&J Foster, M. Marash) 19. Just Another Broken Heart (A.P. Carter) 20. A Distant Land to Roam (A.P. Carter) 21. John Henry (songwriter not listed/trad) 22. I Just Got Wise (Carter Stanley) 23. Lover's Return (A.P. Carter) 24. A Tiny Broken Heart (Charlie and Ira Louvin with Ed Hill) 25. Take Me Back to Tulsa (Wills/Duncan) 26. I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling (Bill Monroe)
Solo albums
Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People (Rounder Records, 1981)
1. Busted (Harlan Howard) 2. Aragon Mill (Si Kahn) 3. Old Calloused Hands (Hazel Dickens) 4. Scraps From Your Table (Hazel Dickens) 5. Out Among the Stars (Adam Mitchell) 6. West Virginia My Home (Hazel Dickens) 7. Tomorrow's Already Lost (Hazel Dickens) 8. Lonesome Pine Special (Sarah Carter) 9. Lost Patterns (Hazel Dickens) 10. Beautiful Hills of Galilee (Traditional) 11. Rocking Chair Blues (Hazel Dickens) 12. They'll Never Keep Us Down (Hazel Dickens)
By the Sweat of My Brow (Rounder Records, 1984)
1. Beyond the River Bend 2. Only the Lonely 3. By the Sweat of My Brow 4. Mama's Hand 5. Little Lenaldo 6. Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again? 7. Go Away with Me 8. Your Greedy Heart 9. Scars from an Old Love 10. The Ballad of Ira Hayes 11. Old and In the Way 12. Here Today and Gone Tomorrow
It's Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song (Rounder Records, 1986)
1. You'll Get No More Of Me 2. A Few Old Memories 3. Do Memories Haunt You? 4. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow 5. Hills Of Home 6. Don't Bother To Cry 7. It's Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song 8. Only A Hobo 9. Will Jesus Wash The Bloodstains From Your Hands? 10. California Cottonfields 11. Play Us A Waltz
A Few Old Memories (Rounder Records, 1987) – Compilation "best of" first three albums (no longer available)
A Few Old Memories (Hazel Dickens) Beyond the River Bend (Hazel Dickens) Busted (Harlan Howard) Old and in the Way (Traditional) It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song (Hazel Dickens) Don't Bother to Cry (Bob Merrill) Hills of Home (Hazel Dickens) Pretty Bird (Hazel Dickens) Only the Lonely (Hazel Dickens / Joe Melson / Roy Orbison) Coal Tattoo (Billy Edd Wheeler) Little Lenaldo (Hazel Dickens) Old Calloused Hands (Hazel Dickens) Scars from an Old Love (Hazel Dickens) You'll Get No More of Me (Hazel Dickens) Mama's Hand (Hazel Dickens) Working Girl Blues (Hazel Dickens) West Virginia, My Home (Hazel Dickens) Play Us a Waltz (Charlie Maguire)
With Carol Elizabeth Jones, Ginny Hawker
Heart of a Singer (Rounder Records, 1993/1998)
1. Forsaken Lover 2. Lay Me to Rest 3. Not a Word of That Be Said 4. Old Memories Mean Nothing to Me 5. Love Me or Leave Me Alone 6. Times Are Not What They Used to Be 7. Faded Pressed Rose 8. Jealous Heart 9. Old River 10. I Can't Find Your Love Anymore 11. Let Me Go 12. Time is Winding Up 13. Coming Down from God
Sources of information:
allmusic.com amazon.mudcat.org http://www.discogs.com/ Wikipedia.org Smithsonian Folkways and Rounder