Pioneering Women of Bluegrass

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.

early, Carrie and I.

Actually, I would say that Pioneering Women of Bluegrass record was the most pivotal harmony singing thing that Carrie and I did.

We just kind of went to school on that record.

For me personally, it was the first Gillian Welch record because I could hear it and I could figure it out and I learned how.