{"product_id":"karen-dalton-1966","title":"Karen Dalton - 1966 (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaren J. Dalton\u003c\/strong\u003e (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. Captured by a friend on a portable reel-to-reel, this 14-song collection finds the late folk singer in a cabin in Colorado, rehearsing for an upcoming show with her (soon-to-be-ex) husband. \u003cstrong\u003eDalton\u003c\/strong\u003e hated recording and felt at best ambivalent about performing in front of strangers (she much preferred playing for friends, on porches and in living rooms), which means that although she's got one of those voices that gets talked about in hushed, reverent tones by everyone from \u003cstrong\u003eBob Dylan\u003c\/strong\u003e to \u003cstrong\u003eDevendra Banhart\u003c\/strong\u003e, she preferred to sit out the kind of rituals that secure a person a snug spot in the canon. She didn't don face paint and a gypsy costume and hit the road with the \u003cstrong\u003eRolling Thunder Revue\u003c\/strong\u003e, she didn't dance \u003cstrong\u003eThe Last Waltz\u003c\/strong\u003e under \u003cstrong\u003eScorsese's\u003c\/strong\u003e spotlights, and - years after her flight from Greenwich Village to Colorado - she's present on the '\u003cstrong\u003eBasement Tapes'\u003c\/strong\u003e only as the elusive subject of \u003cstrong\u003eRichard Manuel's\u003c\/strong\u003e beguiled plea: \"Dear Katie, if you can hear me…\/ How much longer will you be gone?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDalton\u003c\/strong\u003e had a hard life: She struggled with a drug addiction that she never overcame, and she was more or less homeless when she died in New York in 1993. \u003cstrong\u003e'1966'\u003c\/strong\u003e augments her legend not by romanticizing the tragedy of her life, but instead by showing the skill and depth of feeling that \u003cstrong\u003eDalton\u003c\/strong\u003e brought to even her most informal performances. It was an ordinary evening captured on this reel-to-reel, and the moments when the recorder drops out only add to this collection's poetry - they suggest the hundreds, maybe thousands of other times that \u003cstrong\u003eDalton\u003c\/strong\u003e played sets like this one for nobody in particular. She only recorded two studio albums and \u003cstrong\u003e'1966'\u003c\/strong\u003e is one more piece to a puzzle that will never be complete-- which is of course how Dalton herself would have had it. \u003cem\u003e(Pitchfork Media).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText on OBI: Special edition, pressed on clear green rocky road vinyl. Old school tip-on jacket, exclusive 8x12\"color portrait, with 4 panel heavy insert containing rare photos and 3500 word essay, download code. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eA1 Reason To Believe 2:24 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eA2 Katie Cruel 2:46 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eA3 Cotton Eyed Joe 3:11 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eA4 Green Rocky Road 3:22 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eA5 Don't Make Promises 2:19 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eA6 Other Side To This Life 3:45 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eB1 God Bless The Child 2:44 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eB2 Little Bit Of Rain 2:14 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eB3 While You're On Your Way 2:19 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eB4 Train 4:08 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eB5 Misery Blues 1:17 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eB6 Mole In The Ground 3:30 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eB7 Shiloh Town 2:05 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eB8 Hallelujah 0:40\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KaIukmWayQ0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Karen Dalton","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP Colour","offer_id":58596855742799,"sku":"DE030","price":9.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/2164\/3343\/files\/c4666d6e.webp?v=1787984982","url":"https:\/\/www.vinylforger.com\/products\/karen-dalton-1966","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}