Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

Working Girl Blues music in american life A list of books in the series appears at the end of this book. Working Girl Blues s TheLifeandMusic ofHazelDickens Hazel Dickens and Bill C. Malone University of Illinois Press Urbana and Chicago Words and music for all songs in this book by Hazel Dickens. Copyright Happy Valley Music, BMI. Used by permission.© 2008 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 c p 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dickens, Hazel. Working girl blues : the life and music of Hazel Dickens / Hazel Dickens and Bill C. Malone. p. cm. — (Music in American life) Includes discography (p. ) and index. isbn 978–0–252–03304–9 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn 0–252–03304–3 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn 978–0–252–07549–0 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn 0–252–07549–8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Dickens, Hazel. 2. Country musicians—United States—Biography. I. Malone, Bill C. II. Title. ml420.d547a3   2008 782.421642092—dc22 [b]   2007046952 Bill Malone dedicates this book to his wife, Bobbie, and to the memory of his mother, Maude Owens Malone. Hazel Dickens, with fond memories, dedicates this book to her mother, Sarah Aldora Simpkins Dickens, and father, Hillary Nathan Dickens; and also to her ten brothers and sisters—with a special mention and dedication to her brother Arnold Lee Dickens, who shared her interest and passion for a music that will always ring in their souls. ...