Browse by Artist: DALTON, KAREN

Artist:	DALTON, KAREN
Title:	Cotton Eyed Joe
Label:	DELMORE RECORDINGS
Format:	2CD/DVD
Price:	$28.00
Catalog #:	DEL 001CD

Subtitled: The Loop Tapes -- Live In Boulder 1962. Great package of this previously never-heard material. "2CD gatefold jacket -- 21 tracks -- 85 minutes of never released 1962 live reel-to-reel ultra-rare historic recordings since Karen Dalton only released two LPs. This 2CD set proves Karen Dalton's influence on her famous friends and peers (Bob Dylan, Fred Neil, Tim Buckley, Tim Hardin). Unusual CD packaging -- gatefold jackets (similar to '60s heavy cardboard LP jackets w/ inner CD sleeves). 10-page booklet with photos of Karen Dalton and The Attic Club in Boulder in 1962/'63 (featuring The Byrds' David Crosby). Liner notes by Joe Loop (club owner and friend of Karen Dalton). North American release includes bonus DVD not available on European import copies of this title. DVD contains live footage of Karen Dalton circa 1969-70." FYI: the DVD is the same material as found on the UK Megaphone version of It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You the Best, but in NTSC format.

Artist:	DALTON, KAREN
Title:	Green Rocky Road: The Loop Tapes, Pine Street Recordings
Label:	DELMORE RECORDINGS
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	DEL 002CD

Never-released 1963 home recordings packaged in a CD gatefold Japanese mini-LP jacket. Discovered on the same reel-to-reel tapes that housed the Cotton Eyed Joe release. Remastered at Abbey Road Studios by Peter Mew. With 8-page booklet with beautiful, newly-unearthed photos of Karen Dalton from 1962-1963. Liner notes by Dick Weissman. "The release of Green Rocky Road fills in the lacunae in the rightly romanticized mythos of the late folk music legend Karen Dalton and goes a long way in clarifying her crucial role in the evolution of modern acoustic music from 'folk' source materials. Includes a lengthy interview with Joe Loop who was Karen's friend and patron in the early 60's when he'd often book her into the coffee house he ran in Boulder CO. The new album features private recordings she made at his home while visiting (last year saw the release of live recordings from said coffee house). The only formal studio recordings made during Karen's lifetime -- released in 1969 and 1971 respectively -- were thoroughly dissected upon their recent re-release. As wonderful as these albums were, they captured Karen in relatively awkward circumstances. Green Rocky Road, along with last year's Cotton Eyed Joe, provide a rare glimpse of Karen Dalton circa 1962 and 1963 at her most pure, most powerful, and at ease. These recordings, released by Delmore Recordings (in association with the Megaphone label), document her unique artistry at the time she was profoundly influencing the likes of Fred Neil, Tim Hardin and Bob Dylan."

Artist:	DALTON, KAREN
Title:	It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best
Label:	KOCH
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	KOC 7918CD

1997 reissue of this folk classic, originally released on Capitol in 1969. "In 1960's US folk circles, the free-spirited Karen Dalton's extraordinarily emotive voice was revered by all who heard it. Yet while the Oklahoma native had been at the epicentre of New York's coffeehouse scene at the start of the decade, singing and playing alongside such legends-in-waiting as Bob Dylan, Tim Hardin, John Sebastian, Richie Havens, Phil Ochs and Fred Neil, she didn't make a record until the decade's tail-end. The result, though comprised entirely of covers and recorded live in the studio in a single overnight session, is spellbinding. Her cracked and world-weary voice, sounding constantly on the verge of tears is the thread connecting the surprisingly varies songs, though the spidery backing (added later and including lead guitar from Kim King, late of cult Venet proteges Lothar & The Hand People) is exceptionally sympathetic. Taking in songs by her friends Fred Neil and Tim Hardin, as well as older standards by Huddie Ledbetter and Jelly Roll Morton, a consistently fragile, melancholy mood is sustained without becoming maudlin. Her heartbreaking rendition of the title track is stunning."

Artist:	DALTON, KAREN
Title:	In My Own Time
Label:	LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	LITA 022CD

"First time on CD, first vinyl reissue. Remastered from the Original Master Tapes. Liner notes by Lenny Kaye (Nuggets, Patti Smith), Devendra Banhart, and Nick Cave. The late Karen Dalton has been the muse for countless folk rock geniuses, from Bob Dylan to Devendra Banhart, from Lucinda Williams to Joanna Newsom. Legendary singer Lacy J. Dalton actually adopted her hero's surname as her own when she started her career in country music. Karen Dalton had that affect on people -- her timeless, aching, blues-soaked, Native American spirit inspired both Dylan & The Band's 'Katie's Been Gone' (on The Basement Tapes) and Nick Cave's 'When I First Came To Town' (from Henry's Dream). Recorded over a six month period in 1970/71 at Bearsville, In My Own Time was Dalton's only fully planned and realized studio album. The material was carefully selected and crafted for her by producer/musician Harvey Brooks, the Renaissance man of rock-jazz who played bass on Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited and Miles' Bitches Brew. It features ten songs that reflected Dalton's incredible ability to break just about anybody's heart -- from her spectral evocation of Joe Tate's 'One Night of Love,' to the dark tragedy of the traditional 'Katie Cruel.' Known as a great interpreter of choice material, Dalton could master both country and soul genres with hauntingly pining covers of George Jones' 'Take Me' and Holland-Dozier Holland's 'How Sweet It Is'."

Artist:	DALTON, KAREN
Title:	In My Own Time
Label:	LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
Format:	LP + 7"
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	LITA 022LP

LP version. "Unavailable in LP format for some years now, we are proud to present a special, hand-numbered third printing of this sought after album. This fantastically packaged release features: A bonus 7" single featuring 'Something On Your Mind' as well as an unreleased alternate mix of 'Katie Cruel'; 180-gram vinyl; Audio remastered from the original tapes; Hand numbered, old school tip-on jacket. First vinyl reissue. Remastered from the original master tapes. Liner notes by Lenny Kaye (Nuggets, Patti Smith), Devendra Banhart, and Nick Cave. The late Karen Dalton has been the muse for countless folk rock geniuses, from Bob Dylan to Devendra Banhart, from Lucinda Williams to Joanna Newsom. Recorded over a six month period in 1970/71 at Bearsville, In My Own Time was Dalton's only fully planned and realized studio album. The material was carefully selected and crafted for her by producer/musician Harvey Brooks, the Renaissance man of rock-jazz who played bass on Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited and Miles' Bitches Brew. It features ten songs that reflected Dalton's incredible ability to break just about anybody's heart -- from her spectral evocation of Joe Tate's 'One Night of Love,' to the dark tragedy of the traditional 'Katie Cruel.'"

Artist:	DALTON, KAREN
Title:	It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You the Best
Label:	MEGAPHONE UK (UK)
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	MEGA 010CD

New UK version of this album, with an added 2nd disc of video material on DVD. This album remains in print on CD in the US on the Koch label, but some fanatics might need this archival promo film footage on the DVD. It's 4 tracks, apparently taken from a French documentary on Dalton (found in the INA archives) -- no details are provided. 2 black & white live tracks, 2 full color videos shot at her house & surroundings in Summerville, CO, around 1970. About 12 minutes long in total, somewhat mediocre quality, but pretty riveting for the Dalton fanbase. Format is European PAL only. "Major re-release of this absolutely essential all time classic folk/blues album. Re-released with new packaging, new booklet and for the first time ever a stunning DVD with archive footage...Discovered by Fred Neil, produced by Nik Venet, the man who signed the Beach Boys and took The Beatles to America; hugely influential over Tim Hardin, Karen Dalton is the lost girl of Greenwich Village. Bob Dylan in his best-selling book Chronicles (page 12).... 'My favourite singer in the place was Karen Dalton. She was a tall white blues singer and guitar player, funky, lanky and sultry. 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.' As well as Bob Dylan, the likes of Nick Cave, Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom are known celebrity fans."

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