By the Sweat of My Brow

By the Sweat of My Brow

By the Sweat of My Brow

Track Listings
 
1. Beyond the River Bend
2. Only the Lonely
3. By the Sweat of My Brow
4. Mama's Hand
5. Little Lenaldo
6. Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again
7. Go Away With Me
8. Your Greedy Heart
9. Scars from an Old Love
10. Ballad of Ira Hayes
11. Old and in the Way
12. Here Today and Gone Tomorrow

By the Sweat of My Brow,Hazel Dickens,Rounder Select,Folk,Folk & Traditional,Neo-Traditional Folk,Old-Timey,Traditional Country
By the Sweat of My Brow
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • One of Hazel's best.
  • Old time music with a modern edge.
 By the Sweat of My Brow
Hazel Dickens
Manufacturer: Rounder Select
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000JY0H
Release Date: 1999-09-14

Tracks:

  1. Beyond The River Bend
  2. Only The Lonely
  3. By The Sweat Of My Brow
  4. Mama's Hand
  5. Little Lenaldo
  6. Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again?
  7. Go Away With Me
  8. Your Greedy Heart
  9. Scars From An Old Love
  10. Ballad Of Ira Hayes, The
  11. Old And In The Way
  12. Here Today And Gone Tomorrow

Amazon.com

As folk music became increasingly more polite and overly intellectual in the 1980s, Hazel Dickens continued to make honest, heartbreaking, piercing music that was anything but genteel. On 1983's By the Sweat of My Brow, the second of her three 1980s Rounder solo albums, she delivers six typically moving and plainspoken originals plus a variety of apt covers such as Johnny Cash's "Ballad of Ira Hayes" (done here in a positively jolly arrangement), James Talley's "Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again?" and the Browns' "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow," a tune that the Louvin Brothers once recorded. Dickens's uncompromising voice is as real and sad and hopeful as the subject matter. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars One of Hazel's best........2003-03-19

Bluegrass/old-timey legend Hazel Dickens returns with another stunning album featuring song after song exploring the hardships, losses and endurance of the working class poor, as well as women's issues such as domestic abuse, etc. The title track, written by Jack Rhodes, is a winner, a welcome throwback to old-fashioned left-leaning social protest songs, and which perfectly compliments the original songs and well-chosen cover tunes that stud the rest of the album. It's territory that Dickens has covered before, but this album has a compactness and sureness about it that will stop you in your tracks. Several songs feature a bunch of "usual suspects" bluegrass super-pickers, such as Jerry Douglas, Blaine Sprouse, Dudley Connell, etc. -- Hazel Dickens is one of the few modern artists who seems capable of getting these slick studio cats to play *her* music, and not theirs... This record is wonderfully restrained, and quietly powerful. Recommended!

5 out of 5 stars Old time music with a modern edge........2001-08-28

After her break up with her singing partner Alice Gerrard, Hazel Dickens made three wonderful solo-albums for Rounder. The first, "Hard Hitting Song For Hard Hit People", contained a surprisingly wide range of musical styles, from hard honky tonk laments to uptempo bluegrass and slow folk songs, all focusing on the plight of the working man. As the title, "By The Sweat Of My Brow" implies, that theme was continued in this, her second solo record. The songs include a cover of James Talley's working class anthem "Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again", the extremely beautiful ballad "Mama's Hand" and "Little Lenaldo" on the subject of child labor.) The music is less varied this time, focusing on pure, acoustic mountain music or old time country. But we get some sad love songs as well, all aching with loneliness ("Beyond The River Bend", "Only The Lonely" and "Scars From An Old Love".) Peter La Farge's "Ballad Of Ira Hayes" is reworked into a bluegrass number. Musically this record is the logical step between her first and third solo work, "It's Hard To Tell The Singer From The Song", which was even more bluegrass-oriented. I love all three records (as well as all her earlier duo-work with Alice) but this record might actually be the hardest one to appreciate for the first-time listner, so I'd recommend you check out "Hard Hitting Songs" first. Hazel has a strong voice, full of character, and some might find that they may need some time to get used to it, but once you do, there's hardly anything more beautiful in country music. Or more heartfelt.

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