Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard Sing Me Back Home: The Dc Tapes 1965-1969 CD

Archive release. Beloved bluegrass trailblazers Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard are revered as pioneers of the form, who challenged the norm at a time when bluegrass remained largely in the purview of men. Nowhere is this clearer than on a set of newly unearthed recordings, Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969. Sourced from Alice's private archive and digitized with help from the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC Chapel Hill, the recordings invite us in to witness the creative process of these towering figures-just two voices and a handful of instruments working out arrangements at home. Across 19 tracks the duo sings the classic country of The Carter Family, The Louvin Brothers, and Jimmie Rodgers; contemporary hits of the 1960s penned by Dolly Parton and Merle Haggard; and barn-burning traditional standards that blur the line between old-time and early bluegrass. Sing Me Back Home is a raw, unfiltered listen to Hazel and Alice at the height of their collaborative energy.

1. Bye Bye Love 2. Tell Me That You Love Me 3. Seven Year Blues 4. Cannonball Blues 5. This Little Light of Mine 6. James Alley Blues 7. Little Darling Pal of Mine 8. Are You All Alone 9. No One to Welcome Me Home 10. Let Me Fall 11. Will You Miss Me 12. No Telephone in Heaven 13. I'll Wash Your Love from My Heart 14. No Hard Times 15. Why Not Confess 16. Bound to Ride 17. Sing Me Back Home 18. The First Whipporwill (Bonus) 19. In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) (Bonus)