Karen Dalton

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Something On Your Mind 03:16 Tools
Katie Cruel 05:11 Tools
Little Bit of Rain 00:00 Tools
Are You Leaving for the Country 00:00 Tools
It Hurts Me Too 00:00 Tools
In My Own Dream 00:00 Tools
When a Man Loves a Woman 02:59 Tools
Same Old Man 00:00 Tools
How Sweet It Is 00:00 Tools
Sweet Substitute 00:00 Tools
In a Station 00:00 Tools
Take Me 00:00 Tools
Reason to Believe 00:00 Tools
Ribbon Bow 00:00 Tools
I Love You More Than Words Can Say 00:00 Tools
One Night of Love 00:00 Tools
Blues On The Ceiling 03:37 Tools
In the Evening (It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best) 00:00 Tools
How Did The Feeling Feel To You 00:00 Tools
Right, Wrong or Ready 00:00 Tools
Green Rocky Road 00:00 Tools
Down on the Street (Don't You Follow Me Down) 00:00 Tools
Cotton Eyed Joe 04:31 Tools
Don't Make Promises 00:00 Tools
Other Side to This Life 00:00 Tools
While You're On Your Way 00:00 Tools
God Bless the Child 00:00 Tools
Mole In The Ground 00:00 Tools
It's Alright - Live 00:00 Tools
2:19 Train 00:00 Tools
Misery Blues 00:00 Tools
Hallelujah 00:00 Tools
Shiloh Town 00:00 Tools
Everytime I Think of Freedom - Live 00:00 Tools
In The Evening 00:00 Tools
Little Margret 00:00 Tools
Whoopee Ti Yi Yo 00:00 Tools
Red Rockin' Chair 00:00 Tools
Nottingham Town 00:00 Tools
Skillet Good And Greasy 03:56 Tools
Down On The Street 00:00 Tools
Katie Cruel (Alternate Mix) 00:00 Tools
Run Tell That Major 00:00 Tools
It's Alright 00:00 Tools
Down On The Street (don’t You Follow Me Down) 00:00 Tools
Skillet Good & Greasy 00:00 Tools
Red Are the Flowers - Live 00:00 Tools
Everytime I Think Of Freedom 00:00 Tools
Run Tell That Major - Live 00:00 Tools
Pastures of Plenty - Live 00:00 Tools
No More Taters 00:00 Tools
In My Own Time (Alternate Version) 00:00 Tools
Pastures Of Plenty 00:00 Tools
Something On Your Mind (alternate Version) 00:00 Tools
Are You Leaving For The Country (backwards) 00:00 Tools
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) 00:00 Tools
Red Are The Flowers 00:00 Tools
One May Morning 00:00 Tools
Everytime I Think Of Freedom (Adapt. Trad. Spiritual) 00:00 Tools
One May Morning - Live 00:00 Tools
Cotton Eyed Joe - Live 00:00 Tools
Pastures Of Plenty (Woody Guthrie) 00:00 Tools
Cotton Eyed Joe (Trad.) 00:00 Tools
Pallett On Your Floor 00:00 Tools
Old Hannah 00:00 Tools
Prettiest train 00:00 Tools
Down And Out 00:00 Tools
One May Morning (Trad.) 00:00 Tools
blues on the ceiling (fred neil) 00:00 Tools
Fannin' Street 00:00 Tools
Red Are The Flowers (Fred Neil) 00:00 Tools
In The Evening (Leroy Carr) 00:00 Tools
Darlin' Corey 00:00 Tools
Down And Out (Cox-Feldman) 00:00 Tools
Good Morning Blues 00:00 Tools
Blackjack 00:00 Tools
Pallett On Your Floor (Jelly Roll Morton) 00:00 Tools
Old Hannah (Trad.) 00:00 Tools
Katie Cruel (Trad.) 00:00 Tools
Prettiest Train (Trad. - Lomax Prixon Recordings) 00:00 Tools
It's Alright (Ray Charles) 00:00 Tools
It Hurts Me Too (Mel London) 00:00 Tools
Blackjack (Ray Charles) 00:00 Tools
Good Morning Blues (Huddie Ledbetter) 00:00 Tools
Down & Out - Live 00:00 Tools
Blues on the Ceiling - Live 00:00 Tools
Fannin' Street - Live 00:00 Tools
Old Hannah - Live 00:00 Tools
Pallet on Your Floor - Live 00:00 Tools
Katie Cruel (From In My Own Time) 00:00 Tools
Prettiest Train - Live 00:00 Tools
In the Evening - Live 00:00 Tools
Katie Cruel - Live 00:00 Tools
Darlin' Corey - Live 00:00 Tools
Blackjack - Live 00:00 Tools
Mole in the Ground - Live 00:00 Tools
It Hurts Me Too - Live 00:00 Tools
No More Taters - Live 00:00 Tools
Fannin's Street (Huddie Ledbetter) 00:00 Tools
Darlin's Corey (Trad.) 00:00 Tools
Good Morning Blues - Live 00:00 Tools
In My Own Dream (Alternate Mix) [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Are You Leaving for the Country (Backwards) [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Something On Your Mind (Alternate Mix) [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Blues Jumped The Rabbit 00:00 Tools
It’s Alright (Ray Charles) 00:00 Tools
SAME OLD MAN (1971) 00:00 Tools
Train 00:00 Tools
Fannin’ Street (Huddie Ledbetter) 00:00 Tools
IN A STATION (the band cover) 00:00 Tools
It Hurts Me Too (Live) 00:00 Tools
Something On Your Mind-[www flvto com] 00:00 Tools
Darlin’ Corey (Trad.) 00:00 Tools
In The Evening (It's So Hard) 00:00 Tools
In My Own Time (Full Album) 00:00 Tools
Something On My Mind (Alternate Mix) [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Fannin' Street (Huddie Ledbetter) 00:00 Tools
It’s Alright (Ray Charles) 00:00 Tools
Darlin' Corey (Trad.) 00:00 Tools
Something On Your Mind (Alternate Mix) 00:00 Tools
Pastures of Plenty (Live) 00:00 Tools
It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best (Full Album) 00:00 Tools
It's Alright (Live) 00:00 Tools
In The Evening (It's So Hard T 00:00 Tools
Cotton Eyed Joe (Live) 00:00 Tools
Less Bit Of Rain 00:00 Tools
Everytime I Think of Freedom (Live) 00:00 Tools
In My Own Dream (Alternate Mix) 00:00 Tools
Darlin’ Corey (Trad.) 00:00 Tools
Fannin’ Street (Huddie Ledbetter) 00:00 Tools
Karen Dalton - Something On Your Mind 00:00 Tools
Blues on the Ceiling (Live) 00:00 Tools
Run Tell That Major (Live) 00:00 Tools
In The Evening(It's Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best) 1997 00:00 Tools
Katie Cruel (Live) 00:00 Tools
Katie Cruel (Reissued Material) 00:00 Tools
If i should leave you 00:00 Tools
Red Are the Flowers (Live) 00:00 Tools
Blackjack (Live) 00:00 Tools
Itâ•˙s Alright (Ray Charles) 00:00 Tools
karen dalton - katie cruel 00:00 Tools
Good Morning Blues (Live) 00:00 Tools
One May Morning (Live) 00:00 Tools
Prettiest Train (Live) 00:00 Tools
prettiest train (trad. - lomax prison recordings) 00:00 Tools
It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best 00:00 Tools
No More Taters (Live) 00:00 Tools
05 In The Evening 00:00 Tools
Darlinâ•˙ Corey (Trad.) 00:00 Tools
In the Evening (Live) 00:00 Tools
Fannin' Street (Live) 00:00 Tools
live, Everytime I Think Of Freedom 00:00 Tools
Fannin Street 00:00 Tools
Mole in the Ground (Live) 00:00 Tools
Skillet Good Greasy 00:00 Tools
How Did The Feeling Feel To You (Tim Hardin) 00:00 Tools
Fanninâ•˙ Street (Huddie Ledbetter) 00:00 Tools
Kaite Cruel 00:00 Tools
01. Reason to believe 00:00 Tools
Darlin' Corey (Live) 00:00 Tools
Pallet on Your Floor (Live) 00:00 Tools
Old Hannah (Live) 00:00 Tools
How Did The Feeling Feel For You 00:00 Tools
Down And Out (Live) 00:00 Tools
Something On Your Mind. 00:00 Tools
It’s Alright 00:00 Tools
Darlin’ Corey 00:00 Tools
07. God bless the child 00:00 Tools
It Hurts Me, Too 00:00 Tools
Down & Out (Live) 00:00 Tools
karen dalton - it hurts me too 00:00 Tools
If I Had a Ribbon Bow 00:00 Tools
04. Green rocky road 00:00 Tools
Down out 00:00 Tools
Whoopee Ti Yi Yo! 00:00 Tools
Pastures of Plenty (Woody Guthrie cover) 00:00 Tools
How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You 00:00 Tools
Reason To Belive 00:00 Tools
In The Evening (It's So Hard 00:00 Tools
How Did The Feeling Feel To Y 00:00 Tools
10 Down on The Street 00:00 Tools
02. Katie cruel 00:00 Tools
05. Don't make promises 00:00 Tools
03. Cotton eyed Joe 00:00 Tools
10 - down on the street (don't you follow me down) 00:00 Tools
08. Little bit of rain 00:00 Tools
In The Evening (It’s So Hard To Tell Who’s Going To Love You The Best) 00:00 Tools
09. While you're on your way 00:00 Tools
Blues on the Ceiling (Fred Neil) 192 00:00 Tools
Little Margaret 00:00 Tools
Karen Dalton - Blues on the Ceiling 00:00 Tools
in my own dreams 00:00 Tools
06. Other side to this life 00:00 Tools
13. Shiloh town 00:00 Tools
10. 2-19 train 00:00 Tools
11. Misery blues 00:00 Tools
In my own dream / Are you leaving for the country 00:00 Tools
Somethin On Your Mind. 00:00 Tools
Something On Your Mind / How Sweet It Is 00:00 Tools
How Did The Feeling Feel To You ? 00:00 Tools
08 - how bid the feeling feel to you 00:00 Tools
It's Alright [Live] 00:00 Tools
Blues Jumped A Rabbit 00:00 Tools
Cotton Eyed Joe [Live] 00:00 Tools
14. Hallelujah 00:00 Tools
Backwards 00:00 Tools
Little Bit of Rain (Fred Neil) 00:00 Tools
02 - karen dalton - sweet substitute 00:00 Tools
Pallett On Your Floor (Live) 00:00 Tools
Ribbon Bow - Remastered 00:00 Tools
01 something on your mind 00:00 Tools
04 katie cruel 00:00 Tools
03 - karen dalton - ribbon bow 00:00 Tools
Fannin Street (Live) 00:00 Tools
It's Alright - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Everytime I Think of Freedom [Live] 00:00 Tools
12. Mole in the ground 00:00 Tools
Red Are the Flowers [Live] 00:00 Tools
Prettiest Train [Live] 00:00 Tools
No More (Live) 00:00 Tools
Red Rockin Chair 00:00 Tools
Liitle Bit Of Rain 00:00 Tools
Fannin’ Street 00:00 Tools
Fannin Street (Huddie Ledbetter) 00:00 Tools
Katy Cruel 00:00 Tools
How Did The Feeling 00:00 Tools
10 - Down on the Street (Don't You Follow Me...) 00:00 Tools
Travelin' Shoes 00:00 Tools
Are You Leaving For The Country- 00:00 Tools
karen dalton - 10 - down on 00:00 Tools
karen dalton - 07 - it hurts me too 00:00 Tools
the loop tapes cd1 00:00 Tools
Run Tell That Major [Live] 00:00 Tools
One May Morning [Live] 00:00 Tools
Blues on the Ceiling [Live] 00:00 Tools
sweet substitute (jelly roll morton) 00:00 Tools
Katie Cruel [Live] 00:00 Tools
Mole in the Ground [Live] 00:00 Tools
Down on the Street (Don't You Follow Me) 00:00 Tools
In The Evening (It's So Hard To Tell...) 00:00 Tools
Katie Cruel(Alternate Mix) 00:00 Tools
01 - karen dalton - little bit of rain 00:00 Tools
04 - karen dalton - i love you more than words can say 00:00 Tools
05 - karen dalton - in the evening (it's so hard to tell who's going to love you the best) 00:00 Tools
10 - karen dalton - down on the street (don't you follow me...) 00:00 Tools
It’s Alright (Ray Charles) 00:00 Tools
No More 00:00 Tools
01.Somethings On Your Mind 00:00 Tools
sweet subsitute 00:00 Tools
Blue Notion (Laurel Halo Remix) 00:00 Tools
KATIE CRUEL (traditional) 00:00 Tools
01 - Little Bit of Rain (Fred Neil) 00:00 Tools
Its Alright (Ray Charles) 00:00 Tools
Karen Dalton - Ribbon Bow 00:00 Tools
Karen Dalton 00:00 Tools
02 - When A Man Loves A Woman - 2.59 00:00 Tools
03 - In My Own Time - 4.18 00:00 Tools
11 - In My Own Time (Alternate Version) - 5.32 00:00 Tools
Just a Little Bit of Rain 00:00 Tools
Fannin' Street [Live] 00:00 Tools
In the Evening [Live] 00:00 Tools
Dalton 00:00 Tools
Old Hannah [Live] 00:00 Tools
No More Taters [Live] 00:00 Tools
09 - Right, Wrong or Ready (Major Wiley) 00:00 Tools
It Hurts Me Too [Live] 00:00 Tools
Good Morning Blues [Live] 00:00 Tools
Blackjack [Live] 00:00 Tools
Are You Leaving For The Count 00:00 Tools
Travelin Shoes 00:00 Tools
Yesterday 00:00 Tools
Something On Your Mind(Alternate Mix) 00:00 Tools
"Katie Cruel" 00:00 Tools
down on the street (don't you follow me down) (huddie l 00:00 Tools
07 Take Me 00:00 Tools
07 - karen dalton - it hurts me too 00:00 Tools
10 Are You Leaving for The Country 00:00 Tools
06 - karen dalton - blues on the ceiling 00:00 Tools
02 when a man loves a woman 00:00 Tools
09 One Night Of Love 00:00 Tools
03 in my own dream 00:00 Tools
05 how sweet it is 00:00 Tools
karen dalton - 01 - little bit of rain 00:00 Tools
right,wrong or ready 00:00 Tools
08 - How Did the Feeling Feel to You (Tim Hardin) 00:00 Tools
08 - karen dalton - how did the feeling feel to you 00:00 Tools
Karen Dalton - Same Old Man 00:00 Tools
06 - Blues on the Ceiling (Fred Neil) 00:00 Tools
karen dalton - 05 - in the evening 00:00 Tools
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Karen J. Dalton (born Karen J. Cariker (July 19, 1937 - March 19, 1993) was an American folk blues singer and banjo player associated with the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene, particularly with Fred Neil and The Holy Modal Rounders as well as Bob Dylan. Dalton, whose heritage was Cherokee, was born Karen J. Cariker in Enid, Oklahoma. Her bluesy, world-weary voice is often compared to that of iconic jazz singer Billie Holiday. She sang blues, folk, country, pop, Motown - making over each song in her own style. She played the twelve string Gibson guitar and a long neck banjo. In his 2004 autobiography, Bob Dylan wrote this in his description of discovering and joining the music scene at Greenwich Village's Cafe Wha? after arriving in New York City, New York, United States in 1961: "My favorite singer in the place was Karen Dalton. Karen had a voice like Billie Holiday and played guitar like Jimmy Reed... I sang with her a couple of times." Dalton's second album, In My Own Time (1971), was recorded at Bearsville Studios and originally released by Woodstock Festival promoter Michael Lang's label, Just Sunshine Records. The album was produced and arranged by Harvey Brooks, who played bass on it. (Harvey Brooks played bass also on the Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, on the Bob Dylan album Highway 61 Revisited and on the Richie Havens album Mixed Bag.) Piano player Richard Bell guested on In My Own Time. Its liner notes were written by Fred Neil and its cover photos were taken by Elliot Landy. Less well-known is Dalton's first album, It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best (Capitol, 1969), which was re-released by Koch Records on CD in 1996. Both Dalton's albums were re-released in November 2006: It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best, on the French Megaphone-Music label, included a bonus DVD featuring rare performance footage of Dalton. In My Own Time was re-released on CD and LP on November 7, 2006 by Light In The Attic Records. The version of the song Something on Your Mind (composed by Dino Valenti) that is sung by Dalton on her album In My Own Time is the soundtrack during the ending credits of the 2007 film Margot at the Wedding, which was written and directed by Noah Baumbach and starred Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Known as "the folk singer's answer to Billie Holiday" and "Sweet Mother K.D.", Dalton is said to be the subject of the song Katie's Been Gone (composed by Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertson) on the album The Basement Tapes by The Band and Bob Dylan. She struggled with drugs and alcohol for many years. It has been widely reported that she died in 1993 on the streets of New York City after an eight-year battle with AIDS. However, an article in Uncut magazine confirmed that Dalton was actually being cared for by the guitarist Peter Walker in upstate New York during her last months. ________________________________ A cult singer, 12-string guitarist, and banjo player of the New York 1960s folk revival, Karen Dalton still remains known to very few, despite counting the likes of Bob Dylan and Fred Neil among her acquaintances. This was partly because she seldom recorded, only making one album in the 1960s - and that didn't come out until 1969, although she had been known on the Greenwich Village circuit since the beginning of the decade. It was also partly because, unlike other folksingers of the era, she was an interpreter who did not record original material. And it was also because her voice - often compared to Billie Holiday, but with a rural twang - was too strange and inaccessible to pop audiences. Nik Venet, producer of her debut album, went as far as to remark in Goldmine, "She was very much like Billie Holiday. Let me say this, she wasn't Billie Holiday but she had that phrasing Holiday had and she was a remarkable one-of-a-kind type of thing.... Unfortunately, it's an acquired taste, you really have to look for the music." Dalton grew up in Oklahoma, moving to New York around 1960. Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders, who was in her backup band in the early '70s, points out in his liner notes to the CD reissue of her first album that "she was the only folk singer I ever met with an authentic 'folk' background. She came to the folk music scene under her own steam, as opposed to being 'discovered' and introduced to it by people already involved in it." There is a photograph from February 1961 (now printed on the back cover of the It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best reissue) of Dalton singing and playing with Fred Neil and Bob Dylan, the latter of whom was barely known at the time. Unlike her friends she was unable to even capture a recording contract, spending much of the next few years roaming around North America. Dalton was not comfortable in the studio, and her Capitol album It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best came about when Nik Venet, who had tried unsuccessfully to record her several times, invited her to a Fred Neil session. He asked her to cut a Neil composition, "Little Bit of Rain," as a personal favor so he could have it in his private collection; that led to an entire album, recorded in one session, most of the tracks done in one take. Dalton recorded one more album in the early '70s, produced by Harvey Brooks (who had played on some '60s Dylan sessions). Done in Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, it, like her debut, had an eclectic assortment of traditional folk tunes, blues, covers of soul hits ("When a Man Loves a Woman," "How Sweet It Is"), and contemporary numbers by singer/songwriters (Dino Valente, the Band's Richard Manuel). The Band's "Katie's Been Gone," included on The Basement Tapes, is rumored to be about Dalton. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.