. ♪ geoff: the bluegrass duo of hazel dickens and alice gerrard blaze trails for female folksinger'sharmonies that perfected their versions of the signature of old-time american music. they were also civil-rights activists, using their music to speak out. to celebrate the pair's legacy, is bit sony and -- smithsonian released updated versions of their music. allie rogan spoke about the trailblazing career. allie: alice gerrard, congratulations on the releasing of your albums as well as the collection of music you put out through smithsonian folkways. these will be available for streaming for the first time opening you up to a lot of new listeners, what does that mean to you? alice: streaming, what is that? [laughter] i'm aware of that. i'm very pleased at the way the smithsonian has got behind this recording. it is great. the more people that get introduced to this music, the better, as far as i'm concerned. ♪ allie: for people not familiar with the genre of bluegrass, there were not that many women fronting their own groups. what did it mean to you to be an outlier at that point? al