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Alice Gerrard

Alice Gerrard is an American bluegrass and old-time music performer, writer, editor and teacher. As a singer who plays guitar, fiddle and banjo, she performed and recorded solo and in ensembles, notably in a duo with Hazel Dickens.

Discography
Alice Gerrard • 1994 – Pieces of My Heart (Copper Creek Records) • 2002 – Calling Me Home: Songs of Love and Loss (Copper Creek Records) • 2013 – Bittersweet (Spruce And Maple) • 2014 – Follow the Music (Tompkins Square) • 2023 - Sun to Sun (Sleepy Cat) With Hazel Dickens • 1965 – ''Who's That Knocking'' (Folkways LP) • 1973 – Hazel & Alice (Rounder LP) • 1973 – ''Won't You Come & Sing for Me'' (Folkways LP) • 1976 – Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (Rounder LP) • 1996 – Pioneering Women of Bluegrass (Smithsonian Folkways) • 2018 – Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969 (Free Dirt Records) With Mike Seeger • 1970 – Mike and Alice Seeger Live in Japan (King LP) • 1980 – Alice Gerrard & Mike Seeger [reissued in its entirety on Bowling Green CD, 2008] Strange Creek Singers • 1970 - Strange Creek Singers (Arhoolie Records) With Matokie Slaughter and the Back Creek Buddies • 1990 - Saro (Marimac Recordings) Tom, Brad & Alice • 1998 – Been There Still • 2000 – Holly Ding • 2001 – ''We'll Die in the Pig Pen Fighting'' • 2005 – Carve That Possum With Gail Gillespie and Sharon Sandomirsky • 2007 – The Road to Agate Hill: Music from Southwest Virginia and Beyond With Andy Cahan • 2025 - Galax Years 1981-1987 Compilations • 1979 – ''Elizabeth Cotten, Volume 3: When I'm Gone'' (Folkways Records) • 1997 – ''Close to Home: Old Time Music from Mike Seeger's Collection, 1952–967'' (Smithsonian Folkways) • 2001 – There is No Eye: Music for Photographs (Smithsonian Folkways) • 2002 – Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways (Smithsonian Folkways) • 2002 – Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways (Smithsonian Folkways) • 2005 – Classic Bluegrass Vol. 2 from Smithsonian Folkways (Smithsonian Folkways) ==Books==
Books
• Gerrard, Alice. Custom Made Woman: A Life in Traditional Music (University of North Carolina Press, 2025). ==Films==
Films
Homemade American Music Directed by Yasha Aginsky, Carrie Aginsky. Copyright: 1980. • ''Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song'' (2001). Directed by Mimi Pickering. Whitesburg, Kentucky: Appalshop. • You Gave Me a Song: The Life and Music of Alice Gerrard (2019). Directed by Kenny Dalsheimer. Durham, North Carolina: The Groove Productions. ==Other==
Other
Her name appears in the lyrics of the Le Tigre song "Hot Topic." ==References==
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