Hazel Dickens obituary

Bluegrass pioneer who sang of miners and the downtroddenOf all the voices raised since the death of Woody Guthrie that have told the stories of American working men and women, few have been more passionately eloquent than that of Hazel Dickens, who has died aged about 85, though she allowed it to be thought that she was 10 years younger. Herself a child of hard times in the West Virginia coalfields, she devoted much of her life to singing about, and for, coalminers and their families, whose har...

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