Even she then came down to Montreux just half a year before the smoke over the waters of Lake Geneva was to inspire Deep Purple. Karen Dalton didn’t come to make a record. Four songs from their May 1, 1971 Golden Rose Pop Festival performance are now being released on the 2,000-copy limited Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition of “In My Own Time,” along with two tracks from their “Beat Club.” “ Gig ten days before. It is a decorative accessory to a marvel.
When Dalton sings music of her time, you can discover hidden things in songs that you thought you knew inside out
This plate is one of these twice as a standard version. Miracle number one was that bassist/producer Harvey Brooks (Dylan, Miles Davis) was able to animate the hyperskeptical Texan with the long-neck banjo to a regular session with professional staff (Amos Garrett, Richard Bell), which also included several wonderful takes of the same piece (as the alternative version of “Something On Your Mind” now shows).
Miracle number two lingers as Dalton breaks away from the sparse ghost traditionals of her debut, It’s So Hard To Tell Who’s Going To Love You The Best, on her second (and already final) album, here featuring Katie Cruel. or “Same Old Man”. Because when Dalton sings music of her time, such as Richard Manuel’s “In A Station”, you can discover hidden things in songs that you thought you knew inside out or actually no longer want to hear.
Then, in flawless jazz fashion, she sails away from the Motown corset of “How Sweet It Is.” How she completely appropriates songs in which a man usually lies at the feet of a woman. In their interpretations of “When A Man Loves A Woman” or George Jones’ “Take Me” a gender fluidity that seems ahead of its time and very modern appears – and at the same time a frightening consequence in the emotion. Karen Dalton died in 1993 at the age of 56 near Woodstock, where she lived in a camper. Three decades later, there is now an online store in her name. The money from it will never be able to do such good, wondrous things as her voice.
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