Karen Dalton, at prom with her banjo
One of my dear friends recently moved far, far away, but before he left he very generously gave me a copy of his entire music collection.
I’ve been slowly weeding through it, sampling the oddities and rarities (I’m sure some of the tracks are recordings he made of his friends that no one, them included, has heard). One of my favorite finds has been Karen Dalton‘s 1971 album, In My Own Time.
Dalton was a participant in the Greenwich Village folk movement of the 1960s, and her voice conveys a grace and tenderness that is entirely unexpected. She tragically passed away in 1993, after a lengthy battle with AIDS, but not without leaving behind some hauntingly beautiful recordings.
In honor of my friend’s moving away, and my own recent relocation, here’s the last track of In My Own Time, “Are You Leaving For The Country?”.
Karen Dalton – “Are You Leaving For The Country?”
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