At one of these festivals, Dickens met Mike Seeger (younger brother of folk legend Pete Seeger), and the two formed a band with her brothers. When she was 19, her family's dire poverty forced Dickens to move to Baltimore, where she worked in factories with her sister and two brothers.nnThe four displaced siblings often attended old-timey festivals and gatherings, watching others and performing themselves. She was influenced by country traditionalists such as Uncle Dave Macon, the Monroe Brothers, and the Carter Family. Born June 1, 1935, in Mercer County, West Virginia, Dickens learned about music from her father, an occasional banjo player and Baptist minister who drove trucks for a mining company to make a living. Protest and folksinger Hazel Dickens grew up the eighth of 11 children in a large, poor mining family in West Virginia, and she used elements of country and bluegrass to spread truth about two causes close to her heart: the plight of non-unionized mineworkers and feminism, born not of the '60s movement but traditional values.
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