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- Summary: These home recordings were taped in 1966 when folk singer Karen Dalton and her husband Richard Tucker were in Colorado.
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- Record Label: Delmore Recording Society
- Genre(s): Folk, Folk Revival, Traditional Folk
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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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UncutFeb 1, 2012The old-timey accompaniment and Dalton's bluesy vocals perfectly suit Hardin's exquisitely sad songs. [Feb 2012, p.83]
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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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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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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 1, 2012Roots folk doesn't get more organic than this.