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Alice Gerrard – Toy Heart: A Podcast About Bluegrass

Apr 2, 2020

Alice Gerrard – Toy Heart: A Podcast About Bluegrass

Old-time legend and Bluegrass Hall of Fame member Alice Gerrard talks to host Tom Power at her kitchen table in North Carolina.

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Gerrard tells stories of how she and other college students from the northern U.S. found bluegrass and old-time, of the lifelong influence of the Antioch College folk scene, meeting her Hall of Fame partner Hazel Dickens and making some of the greatest records in the genre. She goes on to describe her split from Hazel, her work since, the creation of print publication The Old-Time Herald, of which she is the founding editor. In tender moments, she shares the last time she ever spoke with Hazel, and describes what she sang to “sing her back home.”

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Alice Gerrard – Toy Heart: A Podcast About Bluegrass
Alice Gerrard – Toy Heart: A Podcast About Bluegrass