Karen Dalton - In My Own Time
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Artist: Karen DaltonEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-11-07
Music Label: Light in the Attic
Soundtracks:
- Something On Your Mind
- When a Man Loves a Woman
- In My Own Dream
- Katie Cruel
- How Sweet It Is
- In a Station
- Take Me
- Same Old Man
- One Night Of Love
- Are You Leaving For the Country
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Free Music Review: In her own time, but not of her time...
Hit: 5 Stars
I became aware of Karen Dalton through her association with Fred Neil, and purchased her first album "It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best" because of quotes I read from Neil praising her talent. That album was sparse in terms of production, and featured only acoustic instruments in its minimal backing of Dalton's voice. It was also the result of the producer in a sense misleading Dalton into recording an album of her own at a Fred Neil recording session. "In My Own Time" was Dalton's second record, and was more of a planned effort at making an album. "In My Own Time" features some of the best session musicians of the period, and despite the complaints of some of the other reviewers does not sound overproduced to me. I should preface my praise of any of Dalton's recordings to include that Dalton's voice is an acquired taste, and after reading some of the negative comments about her vocals on this page, it is obviously not for everyone. Nick Cave goes so far as to acknowledge this in his excellent liner notes. (I for one cannot stand her versions of "When A Man Loves A Woman" and "How Sweet It Is" that are on this album, and skip them immediately when they come on.) However, the good outweighs the bad in this case, at least to my ears. Like Nick Cave, I found "Something On Your Mind" to be one of the most amazing vocals I have ever heard. Cave stated in his contribution to the liner notes that he has listened to this song many, many times over the years, and I have to confess that for the first year I owned this CD I barely made it past the first song because I put "Something On Your Mind" on repeat so many times. "Katie Cruel" is another devastating song: a very minimal arrangement with Dalton on banjo and vocals, and a haunting result. I also have to comment on Dalton's version of Richard Manuel's "In A Station", and how her voice absolutely soars at about the three minute mark, not a moment that occurred too often in her recorded work. It made me think what it must have been like to hear her sing live. I also loved hearing her sing with an electric rock/blues backing on tracks like "In My Own Dream" and "One Night Of Love". The melancholy tracks "Take Me", and "Are You Leaving For The Country" are both ones that I play repeatedly; I love the feeling she gave those songs. I have to also mention that the packaging for this disc is top notch: a booklet accompanying the CD contains many photos of Dalton, an essay on the making of the album written by Patti Smith's guitarist Lenny Kaye, as well as notes on Dalton's music from Nick Cave and a poem by Devendra Barnhart. This was the last album that Karen Dalton recorded in her life, and I'm glad it is available. Her sad life may have shaped her voice to be what it was. She was clearly not of her time.
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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'.Folk Music CDs
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