Working Girl Blues: The Life And Music Of Hazel Dickens by Hazel Dickens and Bill Malone, has been named the winner of a Certificate of Merit for the 2009 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.
Working Girl Blues, which was published in 2008 by the University of Illinois Press, relates the life story of singer and songwriter Hazel Dickens, the inspiring voice of a whole generation of women and workers. It contains the lyrics to and comments on 40 of her wonderful songs, as well as a brief biography.
The winners will be recognized during an awards banquet to be held at the Chateau Bourbon in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Saturday, May 22, 2010.