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Feb 1, 2012These cuts may be little more than glorified home recordings, but they are more than charming.
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Feb 27, 20121966 is one more piece to a puzzle that will never be complete--which is of course how Dalton herself would have had it.
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Feb 21, 2012A few private recordings have surfaced from the early 1960s, but none capture her essence like 1966.
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Feb 17, 2012Of these three reissues [Cotton-Eyed Joe, Green Rocky Road, and 1966], 1966 is arguably the best, by virtue of the setting itself.
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Feb 1, 2012By turns languidly bluesy and as stark as an oak branch against a February sky, her music is a treasure, and this record fills in a story-line with far too many gaps.
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Feb 1, 2012Despite the lo-fi nature of the source tape, which was made in an ad hoc manner by a local friend, the sparse setting--just acoustic guitar and banjo--gives Dalton's distinctive voice plenty of room to do its thing.
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The WireFeb 17, 2012This recently unearth gem from Delmore is a fascinating insight into the creative mind of one of the brightest lights of the Greenwich Village breadbasket circuit, Karen Dalton. [Feb 2012, p.63]
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Q MagazineFeb 13, 2012Essential to anyone searching for modern folk's head waters. [Feb 2012, p.101]
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Under The RadarFeb 2, 2012It is an essential document for anyone interested in the provenance of this deeply flawed yet brilliant artist. [#39, p.72]
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UncutFeb 1, 2012The old-timey accompaniment and Dalton's bluesy vocals perfectly suit Hardin's exquisitely sad songs. [Feb 2012, p.83]