03.21.2020 - By Prairie Public
Of all the wonderful songs written by Chuck Suchy, none is more compelling than “The Story of Hazel Miner.” It begins in lyric style, gauzy and ethereal, and suddenly, just in time, transitions into solid 4/4 and into the rhetoric of traditional balladry: Up in Oliver County On the North Dakota plains Lived a farmer’s daughter Hazel Miner was her name