Breathing in “Black Lung” & Hazel Dickens
Anna Valcour I first heard “Black Lung” by Hazel Dickens in a graduate seminar taught by Dr. Taylor Ackley and was overwhelmed by her haunting, raw, lonesome sound – or as Hazel put it, “hard-core…it’s all feeling and emotion.” And she’s right. But then, I learned her story, and it gripped me even further. […]
R M Williams Bush Learning Centre
Lorraine and I recently had the opportunity to travel from our home town Gayndah to Eidsvold, another small town in the North Burnett region of Queensland to visit what we think of as the R M Williams Bush Learning Centre. Most Australians think of him as R M Williams but around Eidsvold he is Reginald […]