Hazel Dickens

Peaked at number 34 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.

Had a cover of Hazel Dickens' Pretty Bird on it.

And the reason why there are so many albums this go around is because it's that most wonderful time of the year for record labels and what used to be music retail at that point.

Because this is the time that everybody starts putting out their albums that they think are going to do well during the Christmas season.

We started that set with Merle Haggard and a working man can't get nowhere today.

After that, Mel Tillis was having trouble making ends meet at the sawmill, and we just heard Hazel Dickens and They'll Never Keep Us Down.

Up next, a couple of songs about getting back at your boss.

Here is Johnny Cash and Oni on Classic Country Corner.

Let's hear another song from Dolly Parton now from The Grass's Blue Whirlwind.

And it's written by the great songwriter Hazel Dickens who writes good songs.

Dolly recognizes a good song when she hears it.

It's one called Just a Few Old Memories.

Mike, of course, being known not only as a solo artist, but also as one of the founding members of the New Lost City Ramblers.

And Alice Gerard, known for her work with Hazel Dickens.

That was them doing a nice version of an old Delmore Brothers song from 1935, The Fugitive's Lament.

And before that one, following the Deke Dickerson record, was a group called Broke Down in Bakersfield.

Yeah.

Well, I'll tell you one story, which is Hazel Dickens, who's a wonderful singer.

She was a coal miner's daughter, and I used tons of her music.

without asking her.

Technical direction and engineering comes from Jason Croft and Steve Mark.

Reginald Hardwick is our news director.

We mentioned the music of Hazel Dickens earlier in today's conversation, and we're going to leave you with some of that.

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