專輯介紹
Bob Dylan最愛之一！唱腔媲美Billie Holiday、彈琴有如Jimmy Reed。
在60年代末民謠風潮逐漸式微之際，在 Fred Neil 的鼓勵下錄製了首張以翻唱為主的專輯《It s So Hard to Tell Who’s Going to Love You the Best》，錄音的初衷甚至是為了Fred Neil希望個人收藏，而即便在1971年發行了第二張《In My Own Time》，也因為宣傳不足沒有獲得太大的迴響。
Karen Dalton不迎合市場，在民謠中混合藍調、爵士、鄉村，她內斂、沙啞、獨特的嗓音，以及深沉的情感橫空出世，近乎靠著實力，沒有過度的製作或精雕細琢，絕對是地下經典。
Karen Dalton在晚年過著隱居的生活，於1993年病逝。2021年她的傳記紀錄片發行，提及在一次大火中燒毀了大多未發行的錄音及檔案，而唱片廠牌Light in the Attic透過其家人和朋友提供的原始素材進行重建，《In My Own Time》也發行了50週年紀念版。
挑戰聽一遍就心碎！
〈Something on Your Mind〉是店員私心的口袋歌之一，請務必將最後重擊心臟的憂傷小提琴聽完！
也另外推薦給年輕世代，收錄於未發行的現場演出專輯《Shuckin Sugar》的翻唱曲〈In the Pines〉，這首即是Nirvana在MTV Unplugged翻唱的〈Where Did You Sleep Last Night〉
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In 1962, Karen summoned Richard Tucker to join her in Colorado, extolling the healthier lifestyle and plentiful gigs at Boulder folk club The Attic. Upon his arrival, the pair solidified their personal and professional relationship, riding horses in the mountains and performing as a duo at parties and venues throughout Denver and Boulder. Stories of the spell they conjured – and rumours of tapes! – have circulated among friends and musicians who witnessed them, but until now, no recorded evidence had turned up. Shuckin Sugar is the glorious result of three reel-to-reel tapes that miraculously found their way to us in November, 2018, which featured two complete shows from The Attic in January 1963 and a benefit concert for The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) recorded the following February. Their gigs would often include brief solo sets from Karen and Richard in addition to the duets, and all seven solo songs of Karen found on the three reels are included here as well as five duets, sequenced as close to how it all went down as humanly possible. To describe the record would take a poet, but all I can say is that unveiling a missing chapter in the Karen Dalton story – with six songs weve never heard her sing before – is cause for celebration in Delmore world.
“From her opening, jaw-dropping lift-off with early blues standard “Trouble In Mind,” the unique otherworld Karen conjured springs into vivid life. Playing to audiences inevitably bound to the era formalities and traditions, Karen instinctively pushed the envelope, straying into uncharted territory beyond the established borders. She must have bewildered many who came to see her in those winsome Peter, Paul and Mary times." - from the liner notes by Kris Needs