KAREN DALTON It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To LP CAPITOL 1969 US orig ST-271
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KAREN DALTON
with HARVEY BROOKS, KIM KING, GARY CHESTER, DAN HANKIN
Mysterious and influential Greenwich Village folkie who counted Fred Neil, Bob Dylan, and Devendra Barnhart among her fans.
A cult singer, 12-string guitarist, and banjo player of the New York 1960s folk revival, Karen Dalton still remains known to very few, despite
counting the likes of Bob Dylan and Fred Neil among her acquaintances. This was partly because she seldom recorded, only making one
album in the 1960s -- and that didn't come out until 1969, although she had been known on the Greenwich Village circuit since
the beginning of the decade. It was also partly because, unlike other folksingers of the era, she was an interpreter who did not record
original material. And it was also because her voice -- often compared to Billie Holiday, but with a rural twang -- was too strange
and inaccessible to pop audiences. Nik Venet, producer of her debut album, went as far as to remark in Goldmine, "She was very
much like Billie Holiday. Let me say this, she wasn't Billie Holiday but she had that phrasing Holiday had and she was a remarkable
one-of-a-kind type of thing.... Unfortunately, it's an acquired taste, you really have to look for the music."
"IT'S SO HARD TO TELL WHO'S GOING TO LOVE YOU THE BEST" Produced by Nikolas Venet1969 LP CAPITOL RECORDS ST-271
PRINTED IN U.S.A. ORIGINAL PRESSING
SINGLE SLEEVE
THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)
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LABEL: CAPITOL - GREEN LABEL with PURPLE TARGET - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: ST-271
Catalog on labels: ST-271 (ST 1-271) / ST-271 (ST 2-271)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): ST-1-271-X3 —?
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): ST-2-271-X3 —?
On labels: Produced By Nikolas Venet
rim text reads "Mfd. by Capitol Records. Inc., A Subsidiary..........Marca Reg. U.S. Pat. No. 2.631.859"
On back cover: Notes by Karen Dalton and Nick Venet
Recorded live in studio A, The Record Plant, New York City
Printed in U.S.A. (circled, bottom left)
Manufactured by Capitol Records, Inc., A Subsidiary Of Capitol Industries, Inc.,.......
tracklisting
Side 1: LITTLE BIT OF RAIN - SWEET SUBSTITUTE - RIBBON BOW
I LOVE YOU MORE THAN WORDS CAN SAY
IN THE EVENING (IT'S SO HARD TO TELL WHO'S GOING TO LOVE YOU THE BEST)
Side 2: BLUES ON THE CEILING - IT HURTS ME TOO
HOW DID THE FEELING FEEL TO YOU - RIGHT, WRONG OR READY
DOWN ON THE STREET (DON'T YOU FOLLOW ME DOWN)
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RECORD VG+ but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Some find Karen Dalton's voice difficult to listen to, and despite the Billie Holiday comparisons, it is rougher going
than Lady Day. But Dalton's vocals aren't that hard to take, and they are expressive; like Buffy Sainte-Marie,
it just does take some getting used to because of their unconventional timbre. Her debut album has a muted
folk-rock feel reminiscent of Fred Neil's arrangements in the mid-'60s, unsurprising since Neil's Capitol-era producer,
Nick Venet, produced this disc too, and since Dalton, a friend of Neil, covered a couple of Neil songs here
("Little Bit of Rain," "Blues on the Ceiling"). Although clocking in at a mere ten songs, it covers a lot of ground,
from Tim Hardin, Jelly Roll Morton, and Leadbelly to the traditional folk song "Ribbon Bow"
and the Eddie Floyd/Booker T. Jones-penned soul tune "I Love You More Than Words Can Say."...(AllMusic)
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