Red, thank you. I was one of those people Karen was playing with in Greenwich Village back in the '60's. It was so exciting when she got that Bearsville contract; it was such a hopeful moment. Damn that heroin. Karen's singing ripped your heart to shreds. We are fortunate to have the few recordings left. If anyone ever had and sang the blues, it was Dalton. I worked the counter at the NY Folklore Center in the late '60's.. Everyone came through those doors. Many where brilliant, but for purity of music, and honest soul, no one surpassed her. She defined music and a brooding soul, torn apart by booze, society and the horrible heroin epidemic of the time. Incidentally, as well as I knew her, I never know she had Cherokee roots until hearing your piece. It is interesting that she never mentioned that. Perhaps the saddest music I have heard in my life was one night when she and her husband at the time, Richard Tucker, sat outside the Kettle of Fish on the steps above the Village Gaslight, drunk and drugged and almost unable to enunciate; in fact both nearly unable to stay upright, with both playing and singing. It was remarkable, heart-breaking, chilling, and revealing of all that music can be and mean. The great 20th century composer Arnold Schoenberg said: "Art is the cry for help of those who experience in their soul the destiny of mankind." To me, that is the core of the great power and truth found in Karen's music.
I’m simply blown away by her haunting authentic voice. She also reminds me of a friend of mine, just like as a person. Calm, chill, from a tough past, but full of sweetness & remarkable talent. So grateful to know of her now. ♥️
Fantastic folk music. Jimmy Page had mentioned her. You can hear her off-key sound & reminds me somewhat of some of Page's folk songs. Some real talent on the guitar. Add her haunting voice & it is fantastic.
Brandon, you were right on with people getting fed up with "over-produced voices." Her voice had that old timey sound that settles in one's bones like a warm bath soothes after standing in the cold.
Thank you David Johannson for introducing me to the great Karen Dalton. It took one note for me to jump out of my chair. It was only a few notes more, that I sobbed uncontrollably. The power of music.
I discovered Karen today and this video was very good as I felt I needed to find out more about her, such a tragedy. The video footage of her wondering through the trees is like a dream you have of a lost loved one.❤lovely voice
Lovely tribute. Thank you very much. Over here in England there was a newspaper article a few years ago entitled "the greatest singer you never heard" which (almost) says it all, though of course Karen's beautiful sound lives on.
Thank you for placing this beauteous talent in the forefront. A beloved friend shared her music with me and in his recent memorial we played her music because he loved her so much. Now so do his friends. Rip Karen and Jose, beautiful semblances of humanity.
I just have to say I’m surprised at the quality of this production you have done. The sad story of Karen Dalton that was told by you is a beautiful testament to her life. Thank you.
Been a music buff and amateur musician/singer my whole like and yet I’ve never heard of this girl but man did her music just hit me in some sorta strange way. First time I heard her voice I teared right up. That doesn’t happen often. You can tell her music is from a genuine place. It’s a shame she doesn’t get discussed more often. Thank you.
Thank you for that production, so well done..i knew Karen back in NYC early 60's..she is singing one of my songs in tbat move that just came out a out her..the song was atributed to her and no doubt 'owned', but i played the song for her one time coming into the city from the country..song entitled..'staring blue notions'...side light..thanks again..She is such a pleasure to listen to..
Nobody's ever made me cried my heart out like this😢❤❤❤❤❤.NOW CAN'T STOP THINKNG 💔 ABOUT THE GREATEST HIPPIE CHILD,AND FLOWER🫂👣💐🥀🌺🌲🍂🍃🌼🏵🌹,Karen.😢.I could almost see her in my mind.❤❤❤
Just somehow caught your program - so good - please pronounce greenwich anyway you want - i will look for more of your blogs? And to find out about karen dalton - wow just deeply heart felt - goes to the gut - i walked through grinnich in 1971 and still feel the leftover vibes / stayed at the ymca - sat on the steps and somebody said Dylan has a new album out - now im in Hmb and you bring k dalton into my life - at this time - thank you
Yes I heard it first time today-- really intense, genuine, a real experience. Never heard of her all through the 60s if I remember right. There were so many great singers you had to miss a few unless you were a pro in the thick of things, I think. But happy to know now. Hard to forget. BLess you, Karen.
She was the best out of all the folk peeps, addiction is an awful disease and Native americans have higher rates. True greatness is right. she was amazing and her voice as you said was fabulous raw and one of great tone and her energy in her songs is felt.
I have only just discovered Karen Dalton. While watching a UK TV series 'BRASSIC'. The last track to one of the episodes was, 'A little bit of rain'. (Obviously the producers know good music) such a humble beautiful soul & it's lovely that she's recieving the recognition she deserves🎶
Thank you so much... interesting stuff here- I just discovered Karen Dalton and I think her music is fantastic! I really needed quality music again, the planet is overcrowded with trashy music, trash-TV, trashy movies... thank you for sharing!
Karen Dalton is a feature on my channel. I have read about her ways and her attitudes but,,,,,,,from me...CHEROKEE PRIDE. From my family to yours From the heart to everyone . BLESS and thank you for featuring her here. love to all especially those most in need of comfort and safety and understanding. ....and love to Karen. ..but she did NOT die homeless. NO!fix that bit ok?? She was taken care of at the end of her life..THIS woman did not die homeless or any of that. Ok? .....fix that please bro'tha'?.....thank yoiu. ~ "Lil Jenny" ....** cherokee-Blackfoot-Irish** thank you very much
Love Karen so much! I am so happy and proud of my grandfathers and my grandPARENTS all together- all of them - my Grandfathers god bless them--- cherokee & blackfoot !! Love forever to all and thank you for posting something about KAREN ♥ love n peace n blessings~~ "jen"
Congrats on the great work, mate. Karen Dalton should be much more well-known. She had a unique voice and rhythim. I didn't know her life story and ethnic background. It almost makes the music deeper. Best regards from Brazil!
One can hope that was the case. So much sadness and loneliness, we all need some connection, some human kindness when we travel on from this earthly plane. xo
A great and respectful tribute. Much appreciated. I'm originally from Oklahoma (and with Cherokee ancestry) and I find it very interesting and enthralling that so many of my musical heroes are Okies: Karen, Lee Hazlewood, Chet Baker, Don Cherry... Does anybody know where Karen is buried? Or if she was buried? I've been asking this for years...
She was cremated. I asked a family member the same thing awhile back. There is a documentary on her life in the works called Long Way Home to be released in 2016
She and Jackson C Frank have had similar lifestyles. He was also homeless on the streets of NY. Even got his eye shot out by some kids with a pellet gun. He worked with Paul Simon, then just disappeared.
I stumbled on Karen Dalton a few years ago. I love her version of Katie Cruel so much, and her individual style of voice. Thank you for this background.
Everytime I hear Something On Your Mind, I have to listen to it till the wheels fall off of it, that is, until the next time I listen to it, which is quite often.
Thank you for this great programme. it's taken me a long time to get used to Karen's voice, but I'm starting to really enjoy her music. Really something special!
ok wait,,,,,Karen was living with a dear friend who was takin care of her when she died- she did NOT die on the streets! ok?? she did NOT! Lets push her music farther!! Get it out there! But she was not homeless the years b4 she died ok? got that? BLESS U KAREN and CHEROKEE PRIDE ,,,,,RIP,,,,,and ROBERT ,,,CLYDE,,,the ones who gave more than anyone else. My grandfathers are the glory of US. ♥ blessings to all tho,
Hi I enjoyed your video and it’s one of the first I watched about her life. I just discovered this wonderful artist while researching the origins of a song Lisa Leblanc covered. I scrolled down to the comment section to comment that the French subtitles in one of the songs you included didn’t belong to that song. I checked the posted comments to see if that was already done. I haven’t read anyone point that mistake out and found out about the other mistakes made in this video. I checked Wikipedia and other sites to get the true facts and found out the commenters were right. If you read this, I am not commenting to best on you, but to encourage you to check your sources, make sure several give the same info, read everything that exists about your subject and, like one commenter wrote join a list of where you get your info. People, like myself, tend to believe what they hear or read. Thanks to the commenters, your comments reminded me to verify the validity of the content in videos like this. I did enjoy the video, appreciate the effort you made to share her music and how you appreciate her and hope this comment and others you appreciate as constructive criticism
A beautiful documentary, thank you so much for sharing Karen Dalton came in to my life 13 years ago her albums are the most precious sounds in my collection.....if you're ever putting on a live music event in the spirit of Karen i'd love to part of it, i'm a country folk blues jazz singer.....Thanks again Angelina
You missed some important points , She was not just friends with folk Singer Richard Tucker for a time she was married to him , also you did not mention that she and Richard were very good friends with singer/songwriter Tim Hardin and his wife and muse Susan Hardin, in fact the first song she sings on here Reason To Believe is a Tim Hardin song. .On a little known Tim Hardin song called Mercy Wind that is here on youtube , on the posting of that song is a photo of Karen and Tim Hardin sitting on the steps of a cabin in Woodstock.
That's cool... Most people probably don't realize she was cherokee... Back then being of indigenous heritage people didn't talk about it because it was looked down upon :(
I really want to "like" this, but you don't credit any of the sources you've used, which include biographical material I've read in published liner notes (and some that perpetuate inaccuracies about her death that have been corrected by commenter Anthony Monaghan--thank you), nor do you credit the French filmmakers for many of the clips. Nice that you've done this piece, but pls. cite your sources.
Hey man, thanks for the awesome post about Karen. I just learned about her today while researching the bluegrass song Red Rocking Chair that was a staple of my "hillbilly" family in Appalachian Virginia (we are all musicians). Of all the youtube posts of that song she was the only performer who really played/sang it the way I remember from my childhood. She nailed down the blue notes and made it sad the way it's supposed to be! Forgive me if I'm saying too much, but her singing somewhere between sadness and playfulness was/is the ultimate melancholy. She is simultaneously breaking my heart while I'm falling in love with her. Thanks again.
Reason To Believe is the name of the song at the beginning, Tim Hardin wrote that song, and recorded it as well. Love how you asked about it, Tim was part of that whole NYC scene.
I appreciate all of your efforts to make Karen better known and to get her the respect she deserves. Thank you. I have a criticism, nitpick if you will. The area of New York City where she lived was not pronounced 'Green Witch" but rather as if the W was not there and as if 'e' in the first syllable is short, in spite of the fact there is a double 'e. Something like "grennich."
dennis gallagher Hi Brandon Caruso.Named after an area of London associated with Greenwich Mean Time ....... but isn't Green Witch a lot prettier and I'd be amazed if that wasn't the original name. Love to all First Nation people from Ireland ...... you sent us the only foreign aid we received during our Great Famine ( 1845 - 1848 ) and we don't forget.
Cheech Marin and his book, "Cheech is not my real name, but dont call me Chong" brought me here. He lived with her for a brief period. Good work here. Someone really needs to research her life and work and interview those still alive who knew her.
I learned of Karen Dalton from following Angel Olsen, I listened today for the first time and I'm blown away at the raw beauty that is her voice along with the melody made all the hairs on my arms stick up! There's so much love in these comments 🥰
It is very difficult to find accurate , detailed information about her background ; like all of us , she had two parents , and was born somewhere ! I'm curious about the fate of her two children . Also . "Greenwich " is pronounced " Gren-itch " . An interesting voice , albeit certainly not underrated , but the piece is certainly appreciated as a piece of music history
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Red, thank you. I was one of those people Karen was playing with in Greenwich Village back in the '60's. It was so exciting when she got that Bearsville contract; it was such a hopeful moment. Damn that heroin. Karen's singing ripped your heart to shreds. We are fortunate to have the few recordings left. If anyone ever had and sang the blues, it was Dalton. I worked the counter at the NY Folklore Center in the late '60's.. Everyone came through those doors. Many where brilliant, but for purity of music, and honest soul, no one surpassed her. She defined music and a brooding soul, torn apart by booze, society and the horrible heroin epidemic of the time. Incidentally, as well as I knew her, I never know she had Cherokee roots until hearing your piece. It is interesting that she never mentioned that.
Perhaps the saddest music I have heard in my life was one night when she and her husband at the time, Richard Tucker, sat outside the Kettle of Fish on the steps above the Village Gaslight, drunk and drugged and almost unable to enunciate; in fact both nearly unable to stay upright, with both playing and singing. It was remarkable, heart-breaking, chilling, and revealing of all that music can be and mean.
The great 20th century composer Arnold Schoenberg said: "Art is the cry for help of those who experience in their soul the destiny of mankind." To me, that is the core of the great power and truth found in Karen's music.
Master R thank you for sharing that. I'm just starting to hear her. It's beautiful.
Amazing story.
Thank you for sharing Master. I visited her old stomping ground in Summerville this past April. She was heavy
i'm a little ways outside the city can i buy you coffee sometime?
Are you still active on RUclips? I'd love to chat with you about her as I am working on a project about her.
i played 3 songs with karen dalton on my upright bass on woodstock tv, she was great and a friend, peace bob forbes
Dude I would have reached out to her if I knew she was struggling. God bless
Wow - how cool - something haunting about her ...
I’m simply blown away by her haunting authentic voice. She also reminds me of a friend of mine, just like as a person. Calm, chill, from a tough past, but full of sweetness & remarkable talent. So grateful to know of her now. ♥️
@@kubricksghost6058 How do you know this person didn't? If they only played three songs together, maybe they never saw each other again?
Fantastic folk music. Jimmy Page had mentioned her. You can hear her off-key sound & reminds me somewhat of some of Page's folk songs. Some real talent on the guitar. Add her haunting voice & it is fantastic.
I think she is my favourite artist. Her voice is such a wonderful combination of pathos and broken beauty. I'm so pleased to have discovered her.
Brandon, you were right on with people getting fed up with "over-produced voices." Her voice had that old timey sound that settles in one's bones like a warm bath soothes after standing in the cold.
+Toni Francis good words
Just discovered karen. My goodness what a soulful and poignant voice. Another lost treasure. Thanks for this.
Thank you David Johannson for introducing me to the great Karen Dalton. It took one note for me to jump out of my chair. It was only a few notes more, that I sobbed uncontrollably. The power of music.
My favourite singer of all time , I appreciate this video so much . Wish I was there to meet her . What a big soul . Thank you and blessings
I discovered Karen today and this video was very good as I felt I needed to find out more about her, such a tragedy. The video footage of her wondering through the trees is like a dream you have of a lost loved one.❤lovely voice
Lovely tribute. Thank you very much. Over here in England there was a newspaper article a few years ago entitled "the greatest singer you never heard" which (almost) says it all, though of course Karen's beautiful sound lives on.
I believe that is 100% right!
Thank you for placing this beauteous talent in the forefront. A beloved friend shared her music with me and in his recent memorial we played her music because he loved her so much. Now so do his friends. Rip Karen and Jose, beautiful semblances of humanity.
Raw! Genuine! Honest! Authentic and Beautiful! That was/is Karen Dalton! Loved this! Thank you!
I just have to say I’m surprised at the quality of this production you have done. The sad story of Karen Dalton that was told by you is a beautiful testament to her life. Thank you.
I'm a south african and have listened to her stuff since she passed away. One of the unsung legends of the 60 and 70's
Been a music buff and amateur musician/singer my whole like and yet I’ve never heard of this girl but man did her music just hit me in some sorta strange way. First time I heard her voice I teared right up. That doesn’t happen often. You can tell her music is from a genuine place. It’s a shame she doesn’t get discussed more often. Thank you.
This was excellent. Thank you so much.
Thank you for that production, so well done..i knew Karen back in NYC early 60's..she is singing one of my songs in tbat move that just came out a out her..the song was atributed to her and no doubt 'owned', but i played the song for her one time coming into the city from the country..song entitled..'staring blue notions'...side light..thanks again..She is such a pleasure to listen to..
Just discovered her a few minutes ago. Awesome! Sadly, she prob would never have believed that in 2021 she would be reaching people.
Janis Joplin, Billie Holliday and Karen Dalton -- all women of kindred spirit. Thanks for posting this albeit a dozen years later.
Thank you for making me aware of her greatness in the music world.
Nobody's ever made me cried my heart out like this😢❤❤❤❤❤.NOW CAN'T STOP THINKNG 💔 ABOUT THE GREATEST HIPPIE CHILD,AND FLOWER🫂👣💐🥀🌺🌲🍂🍃🌼🏵🌹,Karen.😢.I could almost see her in my mind.❤❤❤
Just somehow caught your program - so good - please pronounce greenwich anyway you want - i will look for more of your blogs? And to find out about karen dalton - wow just deeply heart felt - goes to the gut - i walked through grinnich in 1971 and still feel the leftover vibes / stayed at the ymca - sat on the steps and somebody said Dylan has a new album out - now im in Hmb and you bring k dalton into my life - at this time - thank you
Yes I heard it first time today-- really intense, genuine, a real experience. Never heard of her all through the 60s if I remember right. There were so many great singers you had to miss a few unless you were a pro in the thick of things, I think. But happy to know now. Hard to forget.
BLess you, Karen.
She was the best out of all the folk peeps, addiction is an awful disease and Native americans have higher rates. True greatness is right. she was amazing and her voice as you said was fabulous raw and one of great tone and her energy in her songs is felt.
Its so sad😢 Her voice makes me cry ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
just her reading of a single word, for example "knowing' in "Reason To Believe" communicates so much that cannot ever be said in mere words on a page.
Excellent!! Thanks for this
Karen died in West Hurley NY in a mobile home owned by Peter Walker. It’s still there.
An amazing voice one of the original legends. Great blues and folk music. Thanks Red from South Africa.
I really enjoyed this essay. Thanks
Hey man thank you for doing this! I just found out about her from the Netflix film Gunpowder Milkshake…what a beautiful artist
I have only just discovered Karen Dalton. While watching a UK TV series 'BRASSIC'. The last track to one of the episodes was, 'A little bit of rain'. (Obviously the producers know good music) such a humble beautiful soul & it's lovely that she's recieving the recognition she deserves🎶
Thank you so much... interesting stuff here- I just discovered Karen Dalton and I think her music is fantastic! I really needed quality music again, the planet is overcrowded with trashy music, trash-TV, trashy movies... thank you for sharing!
Nice. I was searching for Fred Neil songs and saw a few that she covered. Love them.
Thank you so much man and greetings from New Zealand.
Definitely landed on some new ears thanks xoxox
Just discovering her work in 2024, it's wonderful.
I just found out about her from a John Prine Video. This woman has literally 10 minutes ago become my favorite singer.
Wonderful. Thanks for doing this.
This was such a special watch on this lazy Sunday morning! Thank you :)
Karen Dalton is a feature on my channel. I have read about her ways and her attitudes but,,,,,,,from me...CHEROKEE PRIDE. From my family to yours From the heart to everyone . BLESS and thank you for featuring her here. love to all especially those most in need of comfort and safety and understanding. ....and love to Karen. ..but she did NOT die homeless. NO!fix that bit ok?? She was taken care of at the end of her life..THIS woman did not die homeless or any of that. Ok? .....fix that please bro'tha'?.....thank yoiu. ~ "Lil Jenny" ....** cherokee-Blackfoot-Irish** thank you very much
+NoRosesForMe Her life's story sounds like the life my mother lived.
+NoRosesForMe Now we know where Neil Young stole a Little closer from...Are You Leaving for the Country?
Love Karen so much! I am so happy and proud of my grandfathers and my grandPARENTS all together- all of them - my Grandfathers god bless them--- cherokee & blackfoot !! Love forever to all and thank you for posting something about KAREN ♥ love n peace n blessings~~ "jen"
Congrats on the great work, mate. Karen Dalton should be much more well-known. She had a unique voice and rhythim. I didn't know her life story and ethnic background. It almost makes the music deeper. Best regards from Brazil!
Beautiful.
I hear Billie Holiday.
People have written that she was not homeless when she died, that there were friends there looking after her in the final time of her sickness
One can hope that was the case. So much sadness and loneliness, we all need some connection, some human kindness when we travel on from this earthly plane. xo
A great and respectful tribute. Much appreciated.
I'm originally from Oklahoma (and with Cherokee ancestry) and I find it very interesting and enthralling that so many of my musical heroes are Okies: Karen, Lee Hazlewood, Chet Baker, Don Cherry...
Does anybody know where Karen is buried? Or if she was buried? I've been asking this for years...
She was cremated. I asked a family member the same thing awhile back. There is a documentary on her life in the works called Long Way Home to be released in 2016
She and Jackson C Frank have had similar lifestyles. He was also homeless on the streets of NY. Even got his eye shot out by some kids with a pellet gun. He worked with Paul Simon, then just disappeared.
I stumbled on Karen Dalton a few years ago. I love her version of Katie Cruel so much, and her individual style of voice. Thank you for this background.
I love Karen Dalton! Thank you for sharing.
Everytime I hear Something On Your Mind, I have to listen to it till the wheels fall off of it, that is, until the next time I listen to it, which is quite often.
thank you so much for this. i've known Karen for years and I never heard the songs you posted in the video. great research also. :)
Thank you for this great programme. it's taken me a long time to get used to Karen's voice, but I'm starting to really enjoy her music. Really something special!
"Green-witch Village" 😣 oh no
"Beardsville Studio" for Bearsville. Also, she died in hospice near Woodstock, NY, not on the streets in NYC. Read more, OK?
I read Greek mythology and thought ‘Purse-a-phone’ for a while.
ok wait,,,,,Karen was living with a dear friend who was takin care of her when she died- she did NOT die on the streets! ok?? she did NOT! Lets push her music farther!! Get it out there! But she was not homeless the years b4 she died ok? got that? BLESS U KAREN and CHEROKEE PRIDE ,,,,,RIP,,,,,and ROBERT ,,,CLYDE,,,the ones who gave more than anyone else. My grandfathers are the glory of US. ♥ blessings to all tho,
Right!!
She was an early Amy Winehouse.
Hi I enjoyed your video and it’s one of the first I watched about her life. I just discovered this wonderful artist while researching the origins of a song Lisa Leblanc covered. I scrolled down to the comment section to comment that the French subtitles in one of the songs you included didn’t belong to that song. I checked the posted comments to see if that was already done. I haven’t read anyone point that mistake out and found out about the other mistakes made in this video. I checked Wikipedia and other sites to get the true facts and found out the commenters were right. If you read this, I am not commenting to best on you, but to encourage you to check your sources, make sure several give the same info, read everything that exists about your subject and, like one commenter wrote join a list of where you get your info. People, like myself, tend to believe what they hear or read. Thanks to the commenters, your comments reminded me to verify the validity of the content in videos like this. I did enjoy the video, appreciate the effort you made to share her music and how you appreciate her and hope this comment and others you appreciate as constructive criticism
A beautiful documentary, thank you so much for sharing Karen Dalton came in to my life 13 years ago her albums are the most precious sounds in my collection.....if you're ever putting on a live music event in the spirit of Karen i'd love to part of it, i'm a country folk blues jazz singer.....Thanks again Angelina
She’s the best singer ,i’ve heard of now ❤
You missed some important points , She was not just friends with folk Singer Richard Tucker for a time she was married to him , also you did not mention that she and Richard were very good friends with singer/songwriter Tim Hardin and his wife and muse Susan Hardin, in fact the first song she sings on here Reason To Believe is a Tim Hardin song. .On a little known Tim Hardin song called Mercy Wind that is here on youtube , on the posting of that song is a photo of Karen and Tim Hardin sitting on the steps of a cabin in Woodstock.
What a beautiful voice and guitar style she had! I just found out about her from Cheech Marin's What's in my Bag interview at Amoeba Records.
That's cool... Most people probably don't realize she was cherokee... Back then being of indigenous heritage people didn't talk about it because it was looked down upon :(
Her tone reminds me of Billie Holidays. Sadly melancholy, haunting but beautiful ❤
she didn't die in nyc, it was up in woodstock.
Three chords and the truth. Thank you Karen
There is a documentary in the works on Karen titled Long Way Home . It is scheduled for a 2016 release.
can't find it 2018
@@bacfrere looks like it has had a name change. "In My Own Time " now. Look up Karen Dalton documentary on FB
@@MENFUSSMIKE It is called A BRIGHT LIGHT - KAREN AND THE PROCESS .
@@evamadelene Ty. I shall look for it.
I really want to "like" this, but you don't credit any of the sources you've used, which include biographical material I've read in published liner notes (and some that perpetuate inaccuracies about her death that have been corrected by commenter Anthony Monaghan--thank you), nor do you credit the French filmmakers for many of the clips. Nice that you've done this piece, but pls. cite your sources.
A friend told me to check out her music . A special gem of talent af history
Wonderful blog mate.
Nice work man, Thanks for sharing! Will subscribe
Thanks Red. Just heard about her and this is nice /sad to know
Class class ,,,Karen I just found you,,thank you,
I love Karen Dalton. I wish I could have known her. What a talent.
She did write songs just didn't release any on either of her albums. But others have released covers of her original songs
i love her music an a she has a wonderful voice . she put's me in a trance like good bud !
i hope that's real bud from czech
or the devil's weed
Thank you
Hey man, thanks for the awesome post about Karen. I just learned about her today while researching the bluegrass song Red Rocking Chair that was a staple of my "hillbilly" family in Appalachian Virginia (we are all musicians). Of all the youtube posts of that song she was the only performer who really played/sang it the way I remember from my childhood. She nailed down the blue notes and made it sad the way it's supposed to be! Forgive me if I'm saying too much, but her singing somewhere between sadness and playfulness was/is the ultimate melancholy. She is simultaneously breaking my heart while I'm falling in love with her. Thanks again.
What is the name of the song that plays in the beginning of the video 0:00 - 0:14?
Reason To Believe is the name of the song at the beginning, Tim Hardin wrote that song, and recorded it as well. Love how you asked about it, Tim was part of that whole NYC scene.
2mandolin Tim Hardin, another great singer, and songwriter, who left too soon.!
That voice ;) one of the best I've ever heard....
It hurst me to....hear her story
Thank. You. I never knew about this singer, incredible voice and music and story... louis
A voice like a mellow alto sax. Unforgettable. Soul searing.
surely a biopic on this incredible lost talent should be in the works? THAT VOICE!!!
Should have included "Something's on your Mind".
I appreciate all of your efforts to make Karen better known and to get her the respect she deserves. Thank you. I have a criticism, nitpick if you will. The area of New York City where she lived was not pronounced 'Green Witch" but rather as if the W was not there and as if 'e' in the first syllable is short, in spite of the fact there is a double 'e. Something like "grennich."
thanks dennis
Brandon Caruso You're welcome. Keep up the good work.
dennis gallagher Hi Brandon Caruso.Named after an area of London associated with Greenwich Mean Time ....... but isn't Green Witch a lot prettier and I'd be amazed if that wasn't the original name. Love to all First Nation people from Ireland ...... you sent us the only foreign aid we received during our Great Famine ( 1845 - 1848 ) and we don't forget.
i love karen daltons music. i think her father was irish. thanks for posting.
I'm new to her. She appeared in a sidebar one day and I clicked. It clicked back. I'm still figuring out what I like about her voice.
Cheech Marin and his book, "Cheech is not my real name, but dont call me Chong" brought me here. He lived with her for a brief period. Good work here. Someone really needs to research her life and work and interview those still alive who knew her.
I'm on it ;) facebook.com/pg/karendaltondoc/posts/
Wow !! Knew she was from Oklahoma ........ didn't know she was Cherokee. Partly accounts for her stunning beauty then.
born in TX
Thank you Brandon Caruso.
She had won my heart with your help!
thank you for sharing this..... subscribed. I never knew she was Cherokee. Lovely, me too :). Many Blessings.......
Thanks for presenting Karen Dalton. Les mots ne corresponds pas au lyriques? Mais ils soient beaux
She was born in Texas. But thanks for posting this footage (of her).
I dont think her demise has ever been correctly recorded?? people seem to sell her short in death?
She has the same accent as my mom and aunts, 😂 or really similar
Im from the ozarks, but close to the Kansas Oklahoma border
I also forget how beautiful she was. My sister is half Choctaw, with some other mixed in probably like me.
I learned of Karen Dalton from following Angel Olsen, I listened today for the first time and I'm blown away at the raw beauty that is her voice along with the melody made all the hairs on my arms stick up!
There's so much love in these comments 🥰
She died in Woodstock, bit the streets on New York. Greenwich Village is pronounce Grenn wich not Green wich
Near Woodstock NY
1:31 Reason to believe
5:03 Green Rocky Road
9:27 are you leaving for the country
thank you
the easiest way to break your heart :( beautiful .
It is very difficult to find accurate , detailed information about her background ; like all of us , she had two parents , and was born somewhere ! I'm curious about the fate of her two children . Also . "Greenwich " is pronounced " Gren-itch " . An interesting voice , albeit certainly not underrated , but the piece is certainly appreciated as a piece of music history
hi love this essay can you tell me what the dub step / chanting track is at the beginning of your piece is please?