Karen Dalton 1966 (Green Vinyl, Mono)

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• Newly unearthed rehearsal tape from 1966

  Features Karen solo on banjo and guitar, plus 4 duets with Richard Tucker. Many never-before-heard covers including “Reason To Believe” & “Dont Make Promises” by Tim Hardin and “Other Side To This Life” by Fred Neil. KD at her most intimate and unfiltered.

  Karen Dalton was a remote, elusive creature. A hybrid of tough and tender with an unearthly voice that seemed to embody a time long past. As is often the case with such fragile beings, she instinctively understood that the only way to survive the harshness of the world around her was to keep herself hidden. So it comes as no great surprise that she rarely sang in public or ventured into the unnatural setting of a recording studio. Only twice, for 1969s Its So Hard To Tell Whos Going To Love You The Best and then again for 1971s In My Own Time, was she coaxed from her natural habitat into the studio. Other times, she made music in casual settings, sitting around a kitchen table or a wood burning stove with her friends, singing and playing until daybreak.

  In 1966, Carl Baron brought his reel-to-reel over to her remote cabin in Summerville, Colorado and recorded one of those exquisite musical evenings. Karen and Richard Tucker were rehearsing for a gig when Carl hit the record button. The result is a 45-year-old tape, carefully exhumed, documenting Karen at her most raw and unfiltered. On it are Fred Neil and Tim Hardin songs weve never heard Karen give voice to before as well as traditional songs she uncannily makes her own, including a devastating version of “Katie Cruel” that is so powerful, it is as if the ghost of Katie Cruel possessed her. This recording is a window into her Summerville cabin, opened and allowing us to eavesdrop on Karen Dalton at her most pure and unaffected.

• Artist: Karen Dalton Label: Delmore Recording Society Format: LP Units: 1 Country: US Genre: Folk Style: Folk

• A1 Reason To Believe
  A2 Katie Cruel
  A3 Cotton Eyed Joe
  A4 Green Rocky Road
  A5 Don’T Make Promises
  A6 Other Side To This Life
  B1 God Bless The Child
  B2 Little Bit Of Rain
  B3 While You’Re On Your Way
  B4 2:19 Train
  B5 Misery Blues
  B6 Mole In The Ground
  B7 Shiloh Town
  B8 Hallelujah