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I took a hiatus from blogging and have just revived my other blog, so I thought it time to revive this one.
Today I have been listen to a folk musician I have somehow missed, Karen Dalton. Dalton was a true folk artist, not a revivalist, although because she was young and pretty at the height of the 60's folk revival, she was often confused with one. I discovered a CD, Green Rocky Road in the pop music section of the library today, but knew from the songs listed it was a folk album.
At home I popped it into my Cd and listen to the strong claw hammer banjo playing and the purity of her singing. It was obvious she had learned her music sitting on the porch with the old timers and listening , trying asking. Her versions of Little Margret, Nottingham Town and Skillet Good and Greasy placed her as a skilled old ballad singer. But she had some compositions of her own that showed she also listened to contemporary trends in folk music.
Only a couple of her songs were recorded commercially while she was alive, but after her death a reel to reel tape recording from her concerts appeared, which included the material on Green Rocky Road. Finding this CD is almost like finding an old folk blues artist alive and living on his farm in the Delta. Give her a listen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RryRmyMv54
http://www.myspace.com/karendaltongreenrockyroad
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4429
Today I have been listen to a folk musician I have somehow missed, Karen Dalton. Dalton was a true folk artist, not a revivalist, although because she was young and pretty at the height of the 60's folk revival, she was often confused with one. I discovered a CD, Green Rocky Road in the pop music section of the library today, but knew from the songs listed it was a folk album.
At home I popped it into my Cd and listen to the strong claw hammer banjo playing and the purity of her singing. It was obvious she had learned her music sitting on the porch with the old timers and listening , trying asking. Her versions of Little Margret, Nottingham Town and Skillet Good and Greasy placed her as a skilled old ballad singer. But she had some compositions of her own that showed she also listened to contemporary trends in folk music.
Only a couple of her songs were recorded commercially while she was alive, but after her death a reel to reel tape recording from her concerts appeared, which included the material on Green Rocky Road. Finding this CD is almost like finding an old folk blues artist alive and living on his farm in the Delta. Give her a listen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RryRmyMv54
http://www.myspace.com/karendaltongreenrockyroad
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4429
