1. Karen Dalton was associated with the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene, particularly with Fred Neil, the Holy Modal Rounders, and Bob Dylan.
19 Facts About Karen Dalton
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Karen Dalton brought her twelve string guitar, long-neck banjo, and at least one of her two children with her.
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Karen Dalton quickly became entrenched in the Greenwich Village folk musical scene of the 1960s.
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Karen Dalton played alongside big names of the time, including Bob Dylan, Fred Neil, Richard Tucker, and Tim Hardin.
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Karen Dalton covered many of their songs in her own performances.
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Karen Dalton later married Tucker, with whom she sometimes played as a duo, and in a trio with Hardin.
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Karen Dalton moved to Colorado with husband Richard Tucker and daughter Abralyn and lived there for a while in the 1960s, in a small mining cabin in Summerville.
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Karen Dalton was "not interested in playing the music industry's games in an era when musicians had little other choice," as bass player and producer Harvey Brooks noted.
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Karen Dalton often responded in anger when producers attempted to change her music while recording.
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Karen Dalton cut most of the tracks with one take, and all in one night.
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Karen Dalton brought her two teenage children, her dog, and her horse from Oklahoma to feel more at ease with recording.
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The compilation tribute album, Remembering Mountains: Unheard Songs by Karen Dalton, was released in 2015 by folk label Tompkins Square.
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The songs feature lyrics and poems Karen Dalton wrote before her death, which were in the care of her friend, folk guitarist Peter Walker.
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Karen Dalton's bluesy, world-weary voice is often compared to jazz singer Billie Holiday, though Karen Dalton loathed the comparison and said Bessie Smith was a greater influence.
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Karen Dalton played the twelve string guitar and a long-neck banjo.
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Karen Dalton had a voice like Billie Holiday and played guitar like Jimmy Reed.
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In later years, Karen Dalton lived in a mobile home located in a clearing off Eagle's Nest Road, outside the town of Hurley, near Woodstock.
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Friend Lacy J Dalton helped send her to rehab in Texas in the early 1990s, a stay which lasted only a couple of days before she demanded to be taken back home to Woodstock.
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Karen Dalton died there in March 1993 from an AIDS-related illness, aged 55.