Facts: - instrument: vocals , double bass , guitar - death place: washington - label: rounder records , folkways - death date: 22 april 2011 - genre: bluegrass , folk music - birth date: june 1 , 1935 - name: hazel dickens - background: solo_singer - image: hazel dickens.jpg - birth place: mercer county , west virginia - associated acts: alice gerrard , mike seeger Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of hazel dickens .
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hazel jane dickens -lrb- june 1 , 1935 -- april 22 , 2011 -rrb- was an american bluegrass singer , songwriter , double bassist and guitarist .her music was characterized not only by her high , lonesome singing style , but also by her provocative pro-union , feminist songs .cultural blogger john pietaro noted that '' dickens did n't just sing the anthems of labor , she lived them and her place on many a picket line , staring down gunfire and goon squads , embedded her into the cause . '''' the new york times '' extolled her as '' a clarion-voiced advocate for coal miners and working people and a pioneer among women in bluegrass music . ''with alice gerrard , dickens was one of the first women to record a bluegrass album .