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A Few Old Memories

A Rounder compilation of eighteen songs from her three 1980s solo albums, with a new recording of "Pretty Bird".
Hazel Dickens, 1987

A Few Old Memories (Rounder 11529) is dated 1987 by Wikipedia and DeadDisc and 1988 in a 1996 Smithsonian festival program. It gathers songs from her three Rounder solo albums and adds a new recording of "Pretty Bird"; mostly her own songs, with a few by others, among them "Coal Tattoo" and "Only the Lonely". The musicians credited across the source albums include Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck, Russ Barenberg, Lloyd Green, Buddy Spicher, Roland White and Eddie Stubbs, with Alice Gerrard, Sarah Ogan Gunning and Florence Reece among the extra voices.

Track listing

  1. A Few Old Memories
  2. Beyond the River Bend
  3. Busted
  4. Old and in the Way
  5. It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song
  6. Don't Bother to Cry
  7. Hills of Home
  8. Pretty Bird
  9. Only the Lonely
  10. Coal Tattoo
  11. Little Lenaldo
  12. Old Calloused Hands
  13. Scars from an Old Love
  14. You'll Get No More of Me
  15. Mama's Hand
  16. Working Girl Blues
  17. West Virginia / My Home
  18. Play Us a Waltz

Sources

  1. A Few Old Memories, DeadDisc
  2. Hazel Dickens, Wikipedia