Format: LP Label: Smithsonian Folkways Year: 2022 Media Condition: New Sleeve/Cover Condition: New TRACKS: A1 Walkin' In My Sleep A2 Can't You Hear Me Calling A3 Darling Nellie Across The Sea A4 Difficult Run A5 Coal Miner's Blues A6 Gabriel's Call A7 Just Another Broken Heart A8 Take Me Back To Tulsa B1 Who's That Knocking? B2 Cowboy Jim B3 Long Black Veil B4 Lee Highway Blues B5 Lover's Return B6 Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar B7 I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling Originally released in 1965. PERSONNEL: Bass, Vocals – Hazel Dickens Vocals, Guitar – Alice Gerrard Banjo – Lamar Grier Fiddle – Chubby Wise Guitar – David Grisman Who’s That Knocking? is the first album by the DC-based duo of Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard. With this trailblazing record, Hazel and Alice shattered the glass ceiling of male-dominated bluegrass, which had typically relegated women to minor musical roles at best. Hazel and Alice’s hard-edged, soulful harmonies were firmly rooted in the older music traditions of the rural South. Their steadfast devotion to their powerful, driving style inspired generations of women in bluegrass, country music, and even punk rock. They are accompanied on this album by Chubby Wise, arguably the architect of bluegrass fiddling; David Grisman, whose mandolin improvisations changed the landscape of acoustic music; and Lamar Grier, who played banjo as a member of Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in the 1960s. Unavailable on vinyl for decades, Who’s That Knocking? was remastered in 2021 by its original producer Peter K. Siegel, and has been reissued with its original artwork and liner notes.
