Alice Gerrard

She's best known for Who Will Watch the Home Place that won the IBMA Award a number of years ago.

And before that, we heard from Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard from the collection on Smithsonian called Pioneering Women of Bluegrass.

And we heard one of Hazel's great tunes, Won't You Come and Sing for Me? Alice was actually taking the lead there, and the quartet was Hazel on tenor, David Grisman on baritone, and Fred Weiss on the bass.

Won't you come and sing for me? And we led off that set with Billy Ed Wheeler, the champion songwriter of West Virginia, you might say.

And we still sing together.

We're singing together next week with Alice Gerrard and Kay Justice.

I saw that.

That really

So I'm her elder.

Your peers.

Alice Gerrard, however.

Yeah.

But more importantly, they've all helped shape the music we know today.

My name is Alice Gerrard, grew up in California, moved back east, went to go to college, dropped out and began my musical career.

We'll look at what we can learn from our elders and what we might want to change for the next generation.

My name is

Um, and, uh, and then I kind of, uh, yeah, when I went to college, I started playing a lot with Laurie Lewis, who I, I had known since I was- A kid, but she really, like, became a, a huge mentor to me in college and getting me to be more comfortable improvising and playing bluegrass music.

So Laurie Lewis has been a big mentor figure, um, and also Alice Gerrard, who, uh, she's the reason I moved to North Carolina.

She's, like, a legendary bluegrass and old time musician.

Um, so I've had, like, these kind of, like, different mentor figures, I would say, throughout my life.

When I loved you, you loved me too, but you didn't know the dark 'til another won my heart.

Alice Gerrard and Van singing When I Loved You at the Brooklyn Folk Festival.

This is Democracy Now, democracynow.org. I'm Amy Goodman in Berlin, Germany, with Nermeen Shaikh in New York.

We end today's show with a look at broader militarization and the immigration crackdown in Germany and the European Union.