From the exclusive liner notes by Lenny Kaye ("Nuggets," Patti Smith Group):
"Karen's mother was full Cherokee, and told her that if your vibrations were right, plants would grow into your room, as Karen had grown onto the Village folk scene. She had the Beat spirit as well, the existential angst which felt life was dark, perpetually in pain, and that was how you became your art, if you were a real artist.'
"'Karen was tall, willowy, had straight black hair, was long-waisted and slender, what we all wanted to look like,' Lacy J. Dalton said. And her blend of influences - the jazz of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, the immersion of Nina Simone, the Appalachian keen of Jean Ritchie, the R&B and country that had to seep in as she made her way to New York from Oklahoma - created a 'voice for the jaded ear.'"
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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." - Bob Dylan
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"She is my favorite female blues singer." - Nick Cave
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"Without a doubt, she is my favorite singer." - Devendra Banhart
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"She sure can sing the shit out of the blues." - Fred Neil
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."
I hope you're doing well. I've just returned from the Basque Country where I engaged in some travel photography for your visual pleasure and cerebral stimulation. They're in my 'pictures' section...
I have just returned from a travelling jaunt around the Portuguese island of Madeira and thought you may wish to savour some of my high-res memories.
It's a beautiful island with a wide range of landscape and climate for such a small place. I tried to capture the flavour and the essence of Madeira in my photos whilst hopefully being creative with my snapping.
Simply go to my pictures section and click on the album; 'Madeira'... and here's a sample:
Hi Karen! Thanks so much for your friendship & support! I just wanted to let you know that my new e.p. “Paper Box” is available now on itunes. Drop me a line and let me know how you’re doing! Visit http://www. tunecore. com/music/gayleskidmore for a link to my itunes site. Cheers! Gayle Skidmore
I've been researching various 'spiritual organisations' and as usual I kept my bullshit detector switched firmly on. The alarm went off when I was perusing the website of AMORC, a Rosicrucian order.
I hope my blog 'A Letter to the Rosicrucians' makes you laugh on this cold and windy night.
...sombody on my friends list wrote a real nasty thing about you in a blog they just wrote you need to see this, i dont know why either, sorry, but here is the link to it...
Thanks for befriending us and for this lovely tribute page too. Really loving the 'Cotton Eyed Joe' recordings, was the best Christmas present ever! xx
you wont believe what i just got. you see all those stupid ass ads people keep passing along for a free cash card to Macy's? turns out that shit is for real lol. i just got mine through www.goshoppingfree.info ...i can't add links for some reason so just copy and paste.
anyway, i just bought a crap load of stuff, so go get yours. it only takes a second and plus its free, so why the hell not. here it is again, www.goshoppingfree.info
Entitled 'The Gods', it was inspired initially by a quote by the British medium, Dion Fortune; "The gods are the creation of the created" - as well as by the attached picture from Rachel Storm's book, "Egyptian Mythology."
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Yeah! What a voice,like lazy honey
dripping from the Jar of plenty, smokey and sensual.Shot through with honesty and melancholy.How I wish she had recorded more and lived a whole lot longer...
Gary
Congrats to Light In The Attic for a great, and awesomely packaged reissue of Karen's second. Hope everyone remembers to check out 'It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best' too. What a shame there isn't more to come.
I found out about Karen last year and soon found our that she truly is one of the all time greats. Who cares about such vagaries as fame and status - Karen was the real deal.
