- Traditional Appalachian singer-songwriter.
- Winner of a 2001 NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) National Heritage Fellowship Award.
- She was the first woman awarded the International Bluegrass Music Association's Merit Award in 1994.
- She moved to Baltimore, Maryland in the 1950s and worked in factories there. She began playing music and singing with Mike Seeger and Alice Gerrard.
- She was one of eleven children in Mercer County, West Virginia. Daughter of a Primitive Baptist preacher and singer who hauled timber to support the family. Her brothers were miners and one of her sisters cleaned the house for the mine supervisor.
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