Today in Labor History April 22, 2011: Songwriter, musician and activist Hazel Dickens died at age 75. Dickens was well known, not only for her protest songs, but for her activism, too. According to blogger John Pietaro, "Dickens didn’t just sing the anthems of labor, she lived them and her place on many a picket line, staring down gunfire and goon squads, embedded her into the cause." She was born in West Virginia in 1925. After her family moved to Baltimore in the 1940s, she met Mike Seeger. Together, the two became active in the Baltimore folk music and protest scenes. She wrote “They’ll Never Keep Us Down,” and “Working Girl Blues.” She made appearances in the Oscar-winning documentary Harlan County, USA, about the struggle of coalminers and contributed four songs to the film's soundtrack. She was also in the films Matewan and Songcatcher. And she recorded an album called, Don’t Mourn, Organize! covering the songs of IWW singer and organizer, Joe Hill.

In the accompanying Youtube video, she performs Fire in the Hole, from Matewan. https://youtu.be/1pb2bDA7Kd0

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Today in Labor History April 22, 2011: Songwriter, musician and activist Hazel Dickens died at age 75. Dickens was well known, not only for her protest songs, but for her activism, too. According to blogger John Pietaro, "Dickens didn’t just sing the anthems of labor, she lived them and her place on many a picket line, staring down gunfire and goon squads, embedded her into the cause." She was born in West Virginia in 1925. After her family moved to Baltimore in the 1940s, she met Mike Seeger. Together, the two became active in the Baltimore folk music and protest scenes. She composed “They’ll Never Keep Us Down,” and “Working Girl Blues.” She made appearances in the Oscar-winning documentary Harlan County, USA, about the struggle of coal miners and contributed four songs to the film's soundtrack. She was also in the films Matewan and Songcatcher. And she recorded an album called, Don’t Mourn, Organize! covering the songs of IWW singer and organizer, Joe Hill. In the accompanying Youtube video, she performs Fire in the Hole, from Matewan. https://youtu.be/1pb2bDA7Kd0

#workingclass #LaborHistory #folk #folkmusic #singer #songwriter #HazelDickens #coal #mining #union #protest #matewan #IWW #feminism #joehill

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Photography from John Cohen (1932 – 2019) American musician, photographer and filmmaker. Cohen was a founding member of the New York based string band The New Lost City Ramblers.

1) Bob Dylan
2) Alice Gerrard & Hazel Dickens
3) Woody Guthrie

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Polyrical 3 - Feminism | Hazel Dickens

The topic of the episode was Feminism and the featured artist was Hazel Dickens.

Well the bombs you've dropped, the guns you've shot all in the namе of peace
While thе people beg for mercy, you gave them no relief
There's blood on your hands, mister, you'll answer for one day
And the tears you shed on that day won't wash your sins away

Will Jesus wash the bloodstains from your hands?
Will he welcome you in to that peaceful land?
Will he forgive the killings, the wars you have planned?
Will Jesus wash the bloodstains from your hands?

-Hazel Dickens

The Real History (of the US) | Tha Truth : Tha People’s Music
Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States
Mitch Daniels | David Rovics : All the News That’s Fit to Sing
Fight Like a Girl | Bomshel : Fight Like a Girl (Bonus Track Version)
Can’t Hold Us Down (feat. Lil’ Kim) | Christina Aguilera : Stripped
This Is For My Girls | Kelly Clarkson, Chloe x Halle, Missy Elliott, Jadagrace, Lea Michele, Janelle Monáe, Kelly Rowland & Zendaya : This Is For My Girls - Single
Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves | Eurythmics : Ultimate Collection (Remastered)
The Rebel Girl | Hazel Dickens : Don’t Mourn-Organize! Songs Of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill
Black Lung | Hazel Dickens : Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
Will Jesus Wash The Bloodstains From Your Hands? | Hazel Dickens : Folk Alliance International presents Songs of War and Politics Vol. 1
They’ll Never Keep Us Down | Hazel Dickens : Harlan County USA: Songs of the Coal Miner’s Struggle
Work For Peace | Gil Scott-Heron : Gascd.
You Can (Mass Trespass, 1932) | Chumbawamba : A Singsong and a Scrap

#music #PoliticalMusic #feminism #HazelDickens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH6S5BEjs4s&list=PL1Md9MGN5gFodieds9tauwZGFFDLkcC-f

Aragon Mill
- Si Kahn

June 11 1994 - #HazelDickens Band in concert at Festival of #Bluegrass, #Lexington KY, with Tom Adams (banjo), Dudley Connell (guitar), Barry Bales (bass), Barry Mitterhoff (mandolin).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1RGoKdphvg

#SiKahn #AragonMill

Feminism | Hazel Dickens

“The Real History (of the US) | Tha Truth : Tha People’s Music
Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States
Mitch Daniels | David Rovics : All the News That’s Fit to Sing
Fight Like a Girl | Bomshel : Fight Like a Girl (Bonus Track Version)
Can’t Hold Us Down (feat. Lil’ Kim) | Christina Aguilera : Stripped
This Is For My Girls | Kelly Clarkson, Chloe x Halle, Missy Elliott, Jadagrace, Lea Michele, Janelle Monáe, Kelly Rowland & Zendaya : This Is For My Girls - Single
Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves | Eurythmics : Ultimate Collection (Remastered)
The Rebel Girl | Hazel Dickens : Don’t Mourn-Organize! Songs Of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill
Black Lung | Hazel Dickens : Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
Will Jesus Wash The Bloodstains From Your Hands? | Hazel Dickens : Folk Alliance International presents Songs of War and Politics Vol. 1
They’ll Never Keep Us Down | Hazel Dickens : Harlan County USA: Songs of the Coal Miner’s Struggle
Work For Peace | Gil Scott-Heron : Gascd.
You Can (Mass Trespass, 1932) | Chumbawamba : A Singsong and a Scrap”

#Music #PoliticalMusic #HazelDickens #Feminism #Podcast

https://movingtrainmedia.com/polyrical-podcast/2017/3/11/p3-feminism-hazel-dickens

They'll Never Keep Us Down

#HazelDickens

#Music #PoliticalMusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2bURJRfTTA