Hazel Dickens

Hazel Jane Dickens, *01-06-1935 Mercer County, WV, *25-04-2011
2nd version

By Praguefrank, Mario Manciotti, Russell Rosen
SESSIONS see also Strange Creek Singers
1956 unknown (field recording) - Dick Rittler, Hazel Dickens, Mike Seeger
00001 CINDY SFW-40037
SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS SFW-40037 AMERICAN BANJO: THREE-FINGER AND SCRUGGS STYLE (1990)
Late 1964 First Unitarian Church, Washington, D.C. – Hazel Dickens and Alice Foster (Hazel Dickens [vcl], Alice Foster (Gerrard) [vcl], Lamar Grier [banjo], Dave Grisman [mandolin], Chubby Wise [fiddle])
001 WALKIN' IN MY SLEEP Verve FVS-9005 Folkways FTS-31055 SF-40065
002 CAN'T YOU HEAR ME CALLING Verve FVS-9005 Folkways FTS-31055 SF-40065
003 DARLING NELLIE ACROSS THE SEA Verve FVS-9005 Folkways FTS-31055 SF-40065
004 DIFFICULT RUN Verve FVS-9005 Folkways FTS-31055 SF-40065
005 COAL MINER'S BLUES Verve FVS-9005 Folkways FTS-31055 SF-40065
006 GABRIEL'S CALL Verve FVS-9005 Folkways FTS-31055 SF-40065
007 JUST ANOTHER BROKEN HEART Verve FVS-9005 Folkways FTS-31055 SF-40065
008 TAKE ME BACK TO TULSA Verve FVS-9005 Folkways FTS-31055 SF-40065
009 WHO'S THAT KNOCKING? Verve FVS-9005 Folkways FTS-31055 SF-40065
010 COWBOY JIM Verve FVS-9005 Folkways FTS-31055 SF-40065
011 LONG BLACK VEIL Verve FVS-9005 Folkways FTS-31055 SF-40065
012 LEE HIGHWAY BLUES Verve FVS-9005 Folkways FTS-31055 SF-40065
013 LOVER'S RETURN Verve FVS-9005 Folkways FTS-31055 SF-40065
014 GONNA LAY DOWN MY OLD GUITAR Verve FVS-9005 Folkways FTS-31055 SF-40065
015 I HEAR A SWEET VOICE CALLING Verve FVS-9005 Folkways FTS-31055 SF-40065

Possibly from sessions above:
015a MOMMY PLEASE STAY HOME WITH ME SF 40065 SF 40252
015b CHILDISH LOVE SF 40252
Late 1965 Mastertone Studios, New York City – Hazel Dickens and Alice Foster (Hazel Dickens [vcl/bass], Alice Foster (Gerrard) [vcl/gt], David Grisman [gt], Lamar Grier [banjo], Billy Baker [fiddle]
016 I JUST GOT WISE Folkways FTS-31034 SF-40065
017 PLEASE MOMMY PLEASE Folkways FTS-31034 SF-40065
018 T.B. BLUES Folkways FTS-31034 SF-40065
019 SUGAR TREE STOMP Folkways FTS-31034 SF-40065
020 MEMORIES OF MOTHER and DAD Folkways FTS-31034 SF-40065
021 TRAIN ON THE ISLAND Folkways FTS-31034 SF-40065
022 WON'T YOU COME and SING FOR ME? Folkways FTS-31034 SF-40065
023 A TINY BROKEN HEART Folkways FTS-31034 SF-40065
024 A DISTANT LAND TO ROAM Folkways FTS-31034 SF-40065
025 JOHN HENRY Folkways FTS-31034 SF-40065
026 WEARY LONESOME BLUES Folkways FTS-31034
027 THE ONE I LOVE IS GONE Folkways FTS-31034 SF-40065

Btw 1963-1968 [live-Newport Folk Festival] Newport RI – Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerard (Hazel Dickens [vcl/bass], Alice Gerard [vcl/gt], David Grisman [mandolin], Smiley Hobbs [banjo], Tex Logan [fiddle]

02701 WALKING IN MY SLEEP Vanguard 77016-2

02702 A TINY BROKEN HEART Vanguard 77016-2

02703 THE ONE I LOVE IS GONE Vanguard 77016-2

VANGUARD 77016-2 NASHVILLE TO NEPORT (1995)
3 July 1971 [live-The Smithsonian Festival Of American Folklore] unknown – Hazel Diskens
02704 BLACK LUNG Rounder 4005
October 1972 Appalachian Music Workshop at Highlander Center, New Market, TN – Hazel Dickens
028 COLD BLOODED MURDER Rounder 4005
029 CLAY COUNTY MINER Rounder 4005
030 MANNINGTON MINE DISASTER Rounder 4005
ROUNDER 4005 COME ALL YOU COAL MINERS: SONGS BY NIMROD WORKMAN (1973)
14 October 1972/7 and 21 January 1973 Urban Recordings, Bethseda, MD – Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (Hazel Dickens [vcl/gt], Alice Gerard [vcl/gt/autoharp], Mike Seeger [gt/bass], Tracy Schwarz [fiddle],)
031 MINING CAMP BLUES Rounder 0027
032 HELLO STRANGER Rounder 0027
033 THE GREEN ROLLING HILLS OF WEST VIRGINIA Rounder 0027
034 A FEW MORE YEARS SHALL ROLL Rounder 0027
035 TWO SOLDIERS Rounder 0027
036 THE SWEETEST GIFT, A MOTHER’S SMILE Rounder 0027
037 TOMORROW I’LL BE GONE Rounder 0027
038 MY BETTER YEARS Rounder 0027
039 CUSTOM MADE WOMAN BLUES Rounder 0027
040 DON’T PUT HER DOWN, YOU HELPED PUT HER THERE Rounder 0027
041 YOU GAVE ME A SONG Rounder 0027
042 PRETTY BIRD Rounder 0027 CD-11529
5 April 1973 [live] New Freedom, PA - Alice Gerrard (Alice Gerard [banjo])
04201 GALLOP TO KANSAS -instr.- Rounder 0027

July 1974 [live- 1st Annual Brandywine Mountain Music Convention] Salem Co. Fairgrounds, Route 40, Woodstown NJ - Hazel Dickens

04202 LITTLE MARGARET Heritage 006
1975 Track Recorders, Silver Spring, MD/Blue Seas, Baltimore, MD/House of Music, West Orange, NJ/New Freedom, PA – Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (Hazel Dickens [vcl/gt], Alice Gerard [vcl/banjo/gt], John Nagy [gt], Mike Auldridge [dobro], Lamar Grier [banjo/kazoo], Mike Seeger [banjo/ mandolin/bass/fiddle/gt], Buddy Charleton [steel], Penny Cohen [dulcimer], Tom Gray/ Roger Mason [bass], Richard Crook [drums], Kenny Kosek [fiddle], Carl Nelson [fiddle/piano], Tracy Schwarz [fiddle/resonator National gt],
043 WHEN I LOVED YOU Rounder 0054
044 WORKING GIRL BLUES Rounder 0054 CD-11529
045 WEST VIRGINIA MY HOME Rounder 0054
046 MAMA'S GONNA STAY Rounder 0054
047 MONTANA COWBOY Rounder 0054
048 MEAN PAPA BLUES Rounder 0054
049 NICE LIKE THAT Rounder 0054
050 MARY JOHNSON Rounder 0054
051 RAMBLING WOMAN Rounder 0054
052 BEAUFORT COUNTY JAIL Rounder 0054
053 BANJO PICKING GIRL Rounder 0054
054 JAMES ALLEY BLUES Rounder 0054
055 TRUE LIFE BLUES Rounder 0054

056 LET THAT LIAR ALONE  CD 0054
1980 Shook Shack, Nashville, TN – Hazel Dickens (Hazel Dickens [vcl], John Baker [vcl/gt], Gene Yellin [vcl/gt], Russ Barenberg [gt], Norman Blake [gt], Barry Mitterhoff/ Ron Thomason [mandolin],  Tony Trischka [banjo], Roger Williams [dobro],  Lloyd Green [steel], Jim Guttman/ Carolyn Kellock/ Henry Strzelecki [bass], Matt Glaser/Carl Nelson/ Buddy Spicher/ Evan Stover [fiddle], Nancy Blake [cello], Scott Billington [harmonica], Hargus Robbins [piano])
057 BUSTED Rounder 0126 CD-11529
058 ARAGON MILL Rounder 0126
059 OLD CALLOUSED HANDS Rounder 0126 CD-11529
060 SCRAPS FROM YOUR TABLE Rounder 0126
061 OUT AMONG THE STARS Rounder 0126
062 WEST VIRGINIA MY HOME Rounder 0126 CD-11529
063 TOMORROW'S ALREADY LOST Rounder 0126
064 LONESOME PINE SPECIAL Rounder 0126
065 LOST PATTERNS Rounder 0126
066 BEAUTIFUL HILLS OF GALILEE Rounder 0126
067 ROCKING CHAIR BLUES Rounder 0126
068 THEY'LL NEVER KEEP US DOWN Rounder 0126
1970s [live, soundtrack Matewan] unknown – Hazel Dickens (Hazel Dickens [vcl], John Curtis [gt], Gerry Milnes [fiddle])

06801 FIRE IN THE HOLE

06802 GATHERING STORM

06803 WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS

06804 HILLS OF FGALILEE

1982 Bull Run Studio, Ashland City, TN – Hazel Dickens (Hazel Dickens [hmny vcl])
000 COAL TATTOO Rounder 0162 CD-11529
000 LAST OLD SHOVEL Rounder 0162
ca. Spring 1984 Bull Run Studios, Ashland City, TN/The Shook Shack, Nashville, TN/Bias Recorders, Springfield, VA/The Mixing Lab, Newton, MS – Hazel Dickens (Hazel Dickens [vcl], Phyllis Boyes [vcl],  Dudley Connell [vcl/gt], Jeanne French [vcl], David McLaughlin [vcl/fiddle/ mandolin], Tommy Goldsmith [gt], Jerry Douglas [dobro/lap steel], Joe Drumright/Carl Lauber/ Richard Underwood [banjo],  Roy Huskey Jr./ Larry Robbins [bass], Blaine Sprouse/ Eddie Stubbs [fiddle],  Scott Billington [harmonica])
069 BEYOND THE RIVER BAND Rounder 0200 CD-11529
070 ONLY THE LONELY Rounder 0200 CD-11529
071 BY THE SWEAT OF MY BROW Rounder 0200
072 SCARS FROM AN OLD LOVE Rounder 0200 CD-11529
073 OLD AND IN THE WAY Rounder 0200 CD-11529
074 ARE THEY GONNA MAKE US OUTLAWS AGAIN Rounder 0200
075 BALLAD OF IRA HAYES Rounder 0200
076 GO AWAY WITH ME Rounder 0200
077 MAMA'S HAND Rounder 0200 CD-11529
078 YOUR GREEDY HEART Rounder 0200
079 LITTLE LENALDO Rounder 0200 CD-11529
080 HERE TODAY AND GONE TOMORROW Rounder 0200
20 and 23 January 1986 Nashville Sound Connection, Nashville, TN – Hazel Dickens (Hazel Dickens [vcl], Kathy Ciavola [vcl], Cheryl White Warren [vcl],  Pat Enright [vcl/gt], Glen Duncan [vcl/fiddle], Tommy Goldsmith [gt],  Mike Compton [mandolin], Allen Shelton [banjo], Jerry Douglas [dobro], Roy Husky Jr. [bass], Blaine Sprouse/ Jim Buchanan [fiddle])
081 DON'T BOTHER TO CRY Rounder 0226 CD-11529
082 HILLS OF HOME Rounder 0226 CD-11529
083 DO MEMORIES HAUNT ME Rounder 0226
084 HERE TODAY GONE TOMORROW Rounder 0226
085 IT'S HARD TO TELL THE SINGER FROM THE SONG Rounder 0226 CD-11529
086 YOU'LL GET NO MORE OF ME Rounder 0226 CD-11529
087 ONLY A HOBO Rounder 0226
088 A FEW OLD MEMORIES Rounder 0226 CD-11529
089 WILL JESUS WASH THE BLOODSTAINS FROM YOUR HANDS Rounder 0226
090 CALIFORNIA COTTONFIELDS Rounder 0226
091 PLAY US A WALTZ Rounder 0226 CD-11529

Ca 1994 [live] unknown – Mike Seeger and Hazel Dickens (Mike Seeger [vcl/mandolin], Hazel Dickens [vcl/gt], Tom Gray [bass])

09101 THEY’RE REST TOGETHER Rounder CD-0313

1997 Nashville, TN – Johnson Mountain Boys and Hazel Dickens

092 HERE TODAY AND GONE TOMORROW Rounder 7034

ROUNDER 7034 SONGS OF THE LOUVIN BROTHERS (1997)
December 1997/May 1998 Lion And Fox Recording, Alexandria, VA – Hazel Dickens - Carol Jones - Ginny Hawker (Hazel Dickens [tenor vcl], Carol Elizabeth Jones [tenor/baritone vcl], Ginny Hawker [tenor/baritone vcl], Bruce Molsky [gt/claw hammer banjo], Dudley Connell [gt], Ron Stewart [banjo/mandolin/fiddle], Lynn Morris [claw hammer banjo], Barry Mitterhoff [mandolin])
093 FORSAKEN LOVER Rounder CD-0443
094 LAY ME TO REST Rounder CD-0443
095 NOT A WORD OF THAT BE SAID Rounder CD-0443
096 OLD MEMORIES MEAN NOTHING TO ME Rounder CD-0443
097 LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME ALONE Rounder CD-0443
098 TIMES ARE NOT WHAT THEY USED TO BE Rounder CD-0443
099 FADED PRESSED ROSE Rounder CD-0443
100 JEALOUS HEART Rounder CD-0443
101 OLD RIVER Rounder CD-0443
102 I CAN'T FIND YOUR LOVE ANY MORE Rounder CD-0443
103 LET ME GO Rounder CD-0443
104 TIME IS WINDING UP Rounder CD-0443
105 COMING DOWN FROM Rounder CD-0443
2000 [sessions for Songcatcher] unknown - Hazel Dickens, David Patrick Kelly and Bobby McMillon
106 CONVERSATION WITH DEATH Vanguard 79586-2
 

ALBUMS
Verve/Folkways FVS-9005 Verve/Folkways FVS-9005 Who's That Knocking and Other Bluegrass Country Music: 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 – 09-65 w. Alice Gerrard (reissued on Folkways FTS-31055 in 1973)
Folkways FTS-31034 Won't You Come And Sing For Me?: I Just Got Wise; Please Mommy Please; T.B. Blues; Sugar Tree Stomp; Memories Of Mother and Dad; Train On The Island; Won't You Come and Sing For Me?; A Tiny Broken Heart; A Distant Land To Roam; John Henry; Weary Lonesome Blues; The One I Love Is Gone - 73
Rounder 0027 Hazel and Alice: Mining Camp Blues; Hello Stranger; The Green Rolling Hills Of West Virginia; A Few More Years Shall Roll; Two Soldiers; The Sweetest Gift, A Mother’s Smile; Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone; My Better Years; Custom Made Woman Blues; Don’t Put Her Down, You Helped Put Her There; You Gave Me A Song; Pretty Bird; Gallop To Kansas – 73 w. Alice Gerrard
Rounder 0054 Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard: When I Loved You; Working Girl Blues; West Virginia My Home; Mama's Gonna Stay; Montana Cowboy; Mean Papa Blues; Nice Like That; Mary Johnson; Ramblin Womanl Beaufort County Jail; Banjo Picking Girl; James Alley Blues; True Life Blues – 76 w. Alice Gerrard
Rounder 0126 Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People: Busted; Aragon Mill; Old Calloused Hands; Scraps From Your Table; Out Amoung The Stars; West Virginia My Home; Tommorrow's Already Lost; Lonesome Pine Special; Lost Patterns; Beautiful Hills Of Galilee; Rocking Chair Blues; They'll Never Keep Us Down – 80
Rounder 0200 By The Sweat Of My Brow: Beyond The River Bend; Only The Lonely; By The Sweat Of My Brow; Mama's Hand; Little Lenaldo; Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again?; Go Away With Me; Your Greedy Heat; Scars From An Old Love; The Ballad Of Ira Hayes; Old And In The Way; Here Today And Gone Tomorrow – 09-84 (CD reissue in 1999)
Rounder 0226 It's Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song: Don't Bother To Cry; Hills Of Home; Do Memories Haunt You; Here Today, Gone Tomorrow; It's Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song; You'll Get No More Of Me; Only A Hobo; A Few Old Memories; Will Jesus Wash The Bloodstains From Your Hands; California Cottonfields; Play Us A Waltz - 87
Rounder CD-11529 A Few Old Memories: A Few Old Memories; Beyond The River Bend; Busted; Old And In The Way; It's Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song; Don't Bother To Cry; Hills Of Home; Pretty Bird; Only The Lonely; Coal Tattoo - Little Lenaldo; Old Calloused Hands; Scars From An Old Love; You'll Get No More Of Me; Mama's Hand; Working Girl Blues; West Virginia, My Home; Play Us A Waltz – 15-02-88 (sampler)
Smithsonian/Folkways SF-40065 Pioneering Women Of Bluegrass: T.B. Blues; The One I Love Is Gone; Who's That Knocking?; Walkin' in My Sleep; Won't You Come and Sing for Me?; Can't You Hear Me Callin'; Darling Nellie Across the Sea; Coal Miner's Blues; Sugar Tree Stomp; Train on the Island; Cowboy Jim; Lee Highway Blues; Memories of Mother and Dad; Long Black Veil; Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar; Difficult Run; Mommy, Please Stay Home with Me; Gabriel's Call; Just Another Broken Heart; A Distant Land to Roam; John Henry; I Just Got Wise; Lover's Return; A Tiny Broken Heart; Take Me Back to Tulsa; I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling – 21-05-96 (all tracks from Fvs 9005 and FTS 31034)
Rounder CD-0443 Heart Of A Singer: Forsaken Lover; Lay Me To Rest; Not A Word Of That Be Said; Old Memories Mean Nothing To Me; Love Me Or Leave Me Alone; Times Are Not What They Used To Be; Faded Pressed Rose; Jealous Heart; Old River; I Can't Find Your Love Any More; Let Me Go; Time Is Winding Up; Coming Down From – 27-10-98 Hazel Dickens - Carol Jones - Ginny Hawker

Free Dirt 87 Sing Me Back Home – The DC Tapes 1965-1969: Bye Bye Love; Tell Me That You Love Me; Seven Year Blues; Cannonball Blues; This Little Light of Mine; James Alley Blues; Little Darling Pal of Mine; Are You All Alone; No One to Welcome Me Home; Let Me Fall; Will You Miss Me; No Telephone in Heaven; I’ll Wash Your Love from My Heart; No Hard Times; Why Not Confess; Bound to Ride; Sing Me Back Home; The First Whippoorwill (Bonus); In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) (Bonus) - 21-09-18 (home recordings) w. Alice Gerard

Smithsonian/Folkways SF 40252 Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition:   I Just Got Wise;  Walkin' in My Sleep;  The One I Love Is Gone;  Weary Lonesome Blues;  Long Black Veil; Cowboy Jim; Memories of Mother and Dad;  Sugar Tree Stomp; Mommy Please Stay Home with Me; Gabriel's Call; Coal Miner's Blues;  Difficult Run;  Who's That Knocking?;  A Tiny Broken Heart;  Can't You Hear Me Calling?; Darling Nellie Across the Sea; Won't You Come and Sing for Me?; Lee Highway Blues; A Distant Land to Roam; Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar; Take Me Back to Tulsa; They're at Rest Together (T.B. Blues);  John Henry;  Just Another Broken Heart; Train on the Island; Lover's Return; I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling; Childish Love  – 21-10-22 with Alice Gerrard