Karen Dalton - 1966 2012

Archive collection of previously unreleased impromptu recordings from the underground Folk legend. 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 1969's It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best and then again for 1971's In My Own Time, was she coaxed from her habitat into the studio. Other times she made music in casual settings, sitting around a kitchen table or wood burning stove with her friends, singing and playing until daybreak. (amazon.com)

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'My favorite singer in the place was Karen Dalton. Karen had a voice like Billie Holiday's, and played the guitar like Jimmy Reed and went all the way with it. I sang with her a couple of times.' Bob Dylan talking about Dalton in the Cafe Wha? in 'Chronicles.'

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Karen Dalton - 1966
(101 Distribution 2012)

1. Reason to believe
2. Katie cruel
3. Cotton eyed Joe
4. Green rocky road
5. Don't make promises
6. Other side to this life
7. God bless the child
8. Little bit of rain
9. While you're on your way
10. 2:19 train
11. Misery blues
12. Mole in the ground
13. Shiloh town
14. Hallelujah