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An important figure in American folk music, Alice Gerrard is a singer, instrumentalist, author, and educator who helped revive interest in old-time music through her collaborations with <a href="spotify:artist:2IEiSF4inDSwzQowcQjdfT" data-name="Hazel Dickens">Hazel Dickens</a>, as well as celebrating the importance of women in folk and bluegrass music. An excellent singer with a particular skill for harmonies, Gerrard's strong, plaintive vocal style was a link to folk music's past while also displaying a fresh, contemporary energy. Gerrard's recording career began with a series of albums with Dickens; the first was 1966's Who's That Knocking?, and the collaboration lasted into the mid-'70s, peaking with the landmark 1973 release Hazel & Alice. After devoting herself to other work through most of the '80s, she began a solo career with 1994's Pieces of My Heart. After cutting a handful of albums with the trio <a href="spotify:artist:2QWbrw7ZC7r8zYNFO4S3Hl" data-name="Tom, Brad & Alice">Tom, Brad & Alice</a>, Gerrard pursued a career in academia before returning to the studio with 2013's Bittersweet and 2014's GRAMMY-nominated Follow the Music. In 2018, the archival collection of 1960s Hazel & Alice records, <a href="spotify:album:3rg52dEWs54YRlxL52IIwR" data-name="Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969">Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969</a>, was released. Gerrard is also well known for her folk music collecting with Mike Seeger and others and she helped to found the Old-Time Herald magazine.
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