Working Girl Blues (18 page)

Hazel Dickens in the 1990s. Photograph by Irene Young. Used by permission.

CD cover for
Pioneering Women of Bluegrass,
Smithsonian Folkways 40065, 1996. Courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings,
www.folkways.si.edu
.

CD cover for
Heart of a Singer,
Rounder 0443, 1998. Courtesy of Rounder Records,
www.rounder.com
.

On May 23, 1998, Hazel received an honorary doctorate in humanities from Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, conferred upon her by the college president, David E. Dunlop. Here she is giving her acceptance speech.

Visiting with Hazel at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, October 2001, are Buddy Miller (
left
) and Emmylou Harris. Courtesy of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.

Hazel singing at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, October 2001. Courtesy of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.

At the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, October 2001.
Left to right:
Richard Underwood (banjo), Hazel Dickens (vocals and guitar), Dudley Connell (partially hidden; guitar). Courtesy of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.

Hazel accepts the Folk Alliance's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. Photograph by Robert Corwin. Used by permission.

Hazel and her brother Arnold Dickens playing music in West Virginia, Christmas 2003.

Hazel Dickens, Ken Irwin, and Kitsy Kuykendall at IBMA in Nashville, 2006. Photograph by Janet McGarry. Used by permission.

Left to right:
Eddie Stubbs, Hazel Dickens, and Mac Wiseman at IBMA in Nashville, 2006. Photograph by Dave Roye. Used by permission.

The order of entries is by release date.

Format:
Title of LP or CD.
Label and catalog number. Release year. Personnel. Songs on the LP or CD, with reissue information where relevant (title, label, catalog number, and the reissue date if that does not appear as part of its own entry).

Hazel Dickens sings on the soundtracks to the films
Harlan County, USA
(documentary by Barbara Kopple, Cabin Creek Films, 1976);
Matewan
(directed by John Sayles, Cinecom, 1987);
Songcatcher
(directed by Maggie Greenwald, ErgoArts, 2000); and
It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song
(documentary by Mimi Pickering, Appalshop, 2001). Those songs available on CD are listed below.

For archival recordings, see Amy Walker Brown, “‘It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song': The Southern Folklife Collection's Manuscripts and Recordings of Women in Country Music,” M A. thesis, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, 1997.

A tribute album of Hazel Dickens songs is forthcoming from Rounder Records in 2007. The performers include David Bromberg, Mary Chapin
Carpenter, Roseanne Cash, Elvis Costello, Iris Dement, Emmylou Harris, the Judds, Alison Krauss, Laurie Lewis, Claire Lynch, Joan Osborne, Madeleine Peyroux, Linda Ronstadt, and Rhonda Vincent.