Erik's Random 10

Ginny Hawker is one of American music's great unknown singers. From Kentucky, I believe, Hawker is a great bluegrass singer in the mold of Hazel Dickens. Bluegrass music has always had a huge problem with sexism, significantly more than Nashville country has. While today there is some room for female bluegrass singers, particularly crossover artists like Alison Krauss, women like Ginny Hawker continue to practice their art of singing the songs of the southern mountains in relative obscurity. This is too bad because she is really great.

1. Ginny Hawker, The Heart That Will Never Break Again
2. Chris Knight, Run From Your Memory
3. Ray Charles, Blues Waltz
4. Prokofiev, Violin Concerto, Op. 47 (With Simplicity and Warmth), San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Jacob Heifetz, violin
5. Johnny Cash, Reflections
6. Bonnie Prince Billy, At the Break of Day
7. The Gourds, Maria
8. Bill Frisell, Dogwood Acres
9. Tom Waits, Little Drop of Poison
10. Earl "Fatha" Hines, Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone