Karen Dalton - 1966 By Tom Bolton In the hyper-documented, post-digital world can there really be any unknown great music? The back catalogues of the 1960s in particular have been trawled on an industrial scale, and the scrapings from the ocean bottom packaged and re-released to fading acclaim. In the context of rapidly diminishing returns, the low-key arrival of Karen Dalton 's 1966 is positively seismic. This is the closest we are likely to get to songs that we've never heard before, that deserve to be considered [...]
The selling point and historical significance of Karen Dalton has rested entirely on the uniquely haunting timbre of her voice and the restrained brilliance with which she employed it, bending melody and finding hidden meanings in seemingly straightforward pop and folk songs. To her, the American music canon lay as palimpsest, with something as inescapable
"Well, you know, you can't make it without ever even trying... and something's on your mind, isn't it... tell the truth now, isn't it..." It's always time for a very special voice, and sweet mother K.D. sure had one. Bobby Notkoff plays that exquisite violin. Karen Dalton - Something On Your Mind
You know that we are on an endless quest to find female singers/songwriters of the past. Recently, we stumbled upon the greatness that is Karen Dalton. With just two album, she managed to introduce an intrinsic link between folk and rock. Many female artists did not get the credit they deserved during her time only to drop out after a couple of releases like Dalton. But, her music is a testament to the evolution of this sound and, to this day, it is not bad at all. Filed under: Beats , Clip , Oldie [...]
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Tweet Photo © Aki Roukala Perhaps it has something to do with its long winter months of darkness, but it is my feeling that Finland has more of a coherent grasp of true gothic Americana better than any place in the world. Despite having grown up in the American Midwest, most of my appreciation for American roots music has been gleaned from the Finnish people in my life, who first introduced me to Harry Smith's "Anthology [...]
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Tweet Photo © Aki Roukala Perhaps it has something to do with its long winter months of darkness, but it is my feeling that Finland has more of a coherent grasp of true gothic Americana better than any place in the world. Despite having grown up in the American Midwest, most of my appreciation for American roots music has been gleaned from the Finnish people in my life, who first introduced me to Harry Smith's "Anthology [...]
Prior to the January 1 release of the new Guided By Voices full-length, Let's Go Eat The Factory (Guided By Voices Inc.), the band will be releasing three seven-inch singles. The first, "The Unsinkable Fats Domino"/"We Won't Apologize For The Human Race," will be out November 22 via Matador ... Delmore Records is celebrating the life [...]
While her two proper solo albums are just fine, it's been the release of two compilations of live and home recordings (Green Rocky Road and Cotton Eyed Joe) in the past couple years that provide the purest document of Karen Dalton at the peak of her musical prowess. Her voice is still one of the most gorgeously unpolished expressions of weariness and mournfulness among the 60's folk/blues set; her voice's presence manages to overtake its audience in such a way that one can't help but devote all of their focus to what was laid to tape. Dalton was frustratingly under-documented, [...]
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad told us of a giant Motherplane that is made like the universe, spheres within spheres. White people call them unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Ezekiel, in the Old Testament, saw a wheel that looked like a cloud by day but a pillar of fire by night. The Hon. Elijah Muhammad said that [...]
"Blue lights across the street, blinkin' off and on... I'm so lonely now you're gone..." Which version moves you more, Fred Neil´s original or Karen Dalton´s cover? Initially I ruled it a draw, but in the end the latter´s characteristic voice won out. After seeing sweet mother K.D. perform in the Village for the first time, Neil proclaimed that "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." And isn´t that the highest praise a singer can possibly [...]
Karen Dalton: Something On Your Mind ( buy ) It´s always time for a very special voice, and sweet mother K.D. sure had one. Bobby Notkoff plays that exquisite violin. "Well, you know, you can't make it without ever even trying... and something's on your mind, isn't it... tell the truth now, isn't it..."
The first time you hear her voice, you'll know what I mean. Karen's is a voice with "whoa" factor. She has been lauded by the likes of Bob Dylan, Fred Neil, the Holy Modal Rounders, and surely must have inspired (Joanna Newsom). Yeah, the first time you hear that voice, it can transfix you. Cover songs [...]
The 1946 film Humoresque , starring Joan Crawford, John Garfield, and Oscar Levant is a real gem, and a real oddball movie. It's a New York movie at heart. Garfield is a rough and tumble guy who grew up above his father's Brooklyn grocery store (I'm thinking in my haunt of Williamsburg- it has that A Tree Grows In Brooklyn feel). It turns out he's a child prodigy violinist. He's got a plain-jane musician girlfriend, until vampy Joan Crawford comes around, turned-on by Garfield's music and ethnic upbringing. The film has amazingly witty dialogue courtesy of Clifford [...]
Records We LOVE To Listen to on Vinyl | As we see CDs starting to be phased out, we also see a resurgence in vinyl records. We spent our childhood listening to records, staring at the sleeve for hours while listening to each track intently... there is a ritual that comes with flipping each side and so seeing this resurgence brings what I call the nostalgic tidal wave. A large beautiful sonic wave that we hope people will explore. The Baby Huey Story 'The Living Legend' [...]
Video: Vimeo - YouTube Photos: Flickr - Blueback Hotrod Audio: below Shenandoah Davis plays the piano, and needless to say, we don't just happen to have one in the house. So given she was on a Summer tour of Europe, and given we'd invited her to Edinburgh to record a Toad Session we needed a Plan B. That Plan B came in the form of Penicuik Town Hall. Our friend Ben comes from Penicuik and his dad was able to secure [...]
This is a Fred Neill song from her first record, It's So Hard to Tell You Who's Going to Love You the Best. It was released in 1969. He once said, "She sure can sing the shit out of the blues." Karen Dalton MP3 File yousendit
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