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It’s got to be the John Renbourn tape because I’ve just entered into a heavy folk phase

Big Sam Grassie fan, going to see him live tonight!

the only good thing about ozzy dying is getting to see all these wonderful clips of him alive and well
he was really such a darling human
such a joy

Album of the year (so far)

Embryonic Journey

Karen J. Dalton was born Jean Karen Cariker in Bonham, Texas, but she was raised in Enid, Oklahoma. She also lived in Stillwater, Oklahoma and Lawrence, Kansas. With two divorces behind her at the age of 21, Dalton left Oklahoma and arrived in Greenwich Village, New York City, in the early 1960s. She brought her twelve-string guitar, long-neck banjo, and at least one of her two children with her, according to her daughter. In later years, Dalton lived in a mobile home located in a clearing off Eagle's Nest Road, outside the town of Hurley, near Woodstock, New York. Friend Lacy J. Dalton helped send her to rehab in Texas in the early 1990s, a stay which lasted only a couple of days before she demanded to be taken back home to Woodstock. She died there in March 1993 from an AIDS-related illness, aged 55. According to her friend Peter Walker, she had been living with the disease for more than eight years.

'It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best' (Capitol 1969). Dalton (from Enid, OK) was a folk-blues singer, guitarist and banjo player with a heartbreaking voice, associated with the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene, particularly with Fred Neil and the Holy Modal Rounders as well as Bob Dylan. Review by Richie Unterberger in All Music Guide: Some find Karen Dalton's voice difficult to listen to, and despite the Billie Holiday comparisons, it is rougher going than Lady Day. But Dalton's vocals aren't that hard to take, and they are expressive; like Buffy Sainte-Marie, it just does take some getting used to because of their unconventional timbre. Her debut album has a muted folk-rock feel reminiscent of Fred Neil's arrangements in the mid-'60s, unsurprising since Neil's Capitol-era producer, Nick Venet, produced this disc too, and since Dalton, a friend of Neil, covered a couple of Neil songs here ("Little Bit of Rain," "Blues on the Ceiling"). Although clocking in at a mere ten songs, it covers a lot of ground, from Tim Hardin, Jelly Roll Morton, and Leadbelly to the traditional folk song "Ribbon Bow" and the Eddie Floyd/Booker T. Jones-penned soul tune "I Love You More Than Words Can Say." The record is interesting and well done, but would have been far more significant if it had come out five years or so earlier. By 1969 such singers were expected to write much of their own material (Dalton wrote none), and to embrace rock instrumentation less tentatively.

'In My Own Time' (Paramount 1971): this was the second and last album the mercurial singer Karen Dalton ever recorded (at Bearsville, in Woodstock, NY) with producers Michael Lang and Harvey Brooks (Dalton's boyfriend, bassist), John Simon (piano) and other musicians from the area. Thom Jurek, in All Music Guide, says that his LP is "a more polished effort than her cozy, somewhat more raw debut." "This time out, Dalton had no trouble doing multiple takes, though the one chosen wasn't always the most flawless, but the most honest in terms of the song and its feel. The album was recorded at Bearsville up in Woodstock, and the session players were a decidedly more professional bunch than her Tinker Street Cafe friends who had appeared on her first effort. Amos Garrett is here, as is Bill Keith on steel, pianist John Simon, guitarist John Hall, pianist Richard Bell, and others, including a star horn section that Brooks added later. If Lang was listed as producer, it was Brooks who acted as the session boss, which included a lot of caretaking when it came to Dalton -- who began recording in a more frail condition than usual since she was recovering from an illness." (Jurek) In My Own Time is the better of her two offerings in so many ways, not the least of which is the depth she is willing to go inside a song to draw its meaning out, even if it means her own voice cracks in the process.

'1966' (Delmore Recording Society, 2012). All Music Guide review: Dalton was all but forgotten by the time she passed away in 1993, her music career long behind her, but posthumous interest in her work dovetailed nicely with the archival spelunking that resulted in Delmore Recordings' release of previously unheard Dalton tapes. Following up on their release of a 1962 Dalton recording, the label offered up the appropriately titled 1966. This home recording captures Dalton and her then-husband Richard Tucker playing together in the cabin in rural Colorado where they sought refuge from the Greenwich Village scene, sans running water and an official address (Dalton was very literally off the map). Despite the lo-fi nature of the source tape, which was made in an ad hoc manner by a local friend, the sparse setting -- just acoustic guitar and banjo -- gives Dalton's distinctive voice plenty of room to do its thing. The song list is probably typical of what she was performing live at the time -- in fact, she and Tucker are said to have been rehearsing for a gig during this recording. As on her studio albums, she tackles some traditional folk tunes ("Cotton Eyed Joe," "Mole in the Ground") as well as songs by her friend and fellow folkie recluse Fred Neil ("Other Side of This Life," "Little Bit of Rain") and the work of her pal and fellow drug victim Tim Hardin ("Don't Make Promises," "While You're on Your Way," "Shiloh Town"). Her version of "God Bless the Child" makes it clear why she's often regarded as the Billie Holiday of the folk world; not only did Dalton share Lady Day's lived-in tone, world-weary delivery, and troubled, foreshortened life, she had a way to take songs from almost any source and make them sound as if they'd never existed before her haunted pipes brought them into being.

Remembering '60s-era Greenwich Village folk-blues heartbreak-voiced singer, guitarist & banjo player Karen J. Dalton, born Jean Karen Cariker on July 19, 1937, Bonham, TX (d. March 19, 1993). She finally achieved the recognition she'd sought during her life years after her sad death. More: alt text

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