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 Karen Dalton's Profile |
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| Country: |  United Kingdom |
| Last Login: | Jun 27, 2008 (518 days back) |
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| 'It Hurts Me Too' (1969)
'God Bless The Child' (1969) 'My favourite singer in the place (Greenwich Village's Cafe Wha) was Karen Dalton, she was a tall white blues singer and guitar player, funky, lanky and sultry. Karen had a voice like Billie Holliday's and played guitar like Jimmy Reed and went all the way with it'. BOB DYLAN "She is my favorite female blues singer." NICK CAVE 'Karen has been my favorite female vocalist as well as a heavy influence on my own style of singing since the early sixties. I first picked up on her one night in the village at the "Cock & Bull" (later the Bitter End). Her voice grabbed me immediately. She did "Blues On The Ceiling" (which is my song) with so much feeling that if she told me she had written it herself I would have believed her. After the set Dino Valenti took me up to Karen's place. Later that night we jammed. Karen was like a letter from home. Her voice is so unique, to describe it would take a poet. All I can say is she sure can sing the shit out of the blues'. FRED NEIL "Without a doubt, she is my favorite singer." DEVENDRA BANHART ******* A cult singer, twelve-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 folk singers 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 1970s, 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 1970s, produced by Harvey Brooks (who had played on some sixties 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. Karen sadly passed away in 1993. |
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Music:Member Since: 9/4/2006Type of Label: Major |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Acoustic / Folk / Blues) |
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Karen Dalton - New Release Due April 2008 |
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| Megaphone Music and Stone Immaculate are excited to announce the release of another chapter in the ever-evolving story of Karen Dalton, ’GREEN ROCKY ROAD’. These are home recordings, taped... Posted by Karen Dalton on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:00:00 PST |
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Karen Dalton - New Release Due August 2007 |
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| Megaphone Music is pleased to announce the release of a double album of new and unknown recordings by KAREN DALTON in concert in 1962.KAREN DALTON - ..COTTON EYED JOE (THE LOOP TAPES) - LIV... Posted by Karen Dalton on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:12:00 PST |
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Sunday Times Article - November 26th 2006 |
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| Lady sang the blues
Has folk outsider Karen Dalton’s time come round again, asks Richard Clayton. Bob Dylan raves about her, Devendra Banhart worships her and Nick Cave once drove round Bra... Posted by Karen Dalton on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:45:00 PST |
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A Tribute To Karen Dalton : The Lost Voice of Greenwich Village |
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| A Tribute To Karen Dalton : The Lost Voice of Greenwich Village Performed by: PETRA JEAN PHILLIPSON and Friends Saturday 2nd December The Luminaire, 311 High Road, Kilburn, London NW6 7JR tickets : £7... Posted by Karen Dalton on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:04:00 PST |
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