FOLK SINGER DICKENS DIES
American folk and bluegrass star HAZEL DICKENS has died at the age of 75.
The musician passed away on Friday (22Apr11) at a hospice in Washington after suffering complications stemming from pneumonia.
Dickens rose to fame in the 1960s and ’70s performing with Alice Gerrard as Hazel and Alice, and their first album, 1965’s Who’s That Knocking, is widely recognised as one of the earliest bluegrass records made by a female act.
The singer, a prominent supporter of coal miners, was also featured in Oscar-winning 1976 documentary Harlan County, USA, about miners in Kentucky.
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