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Time to put your quiet hats on, Moggers.
I ran across this track on Jesse Jarnow's blog the other day and I gotta say that I CANNOT get enough of this song. There's something so sad and so sublime in her singing and phrasing....
from allmusic:
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."
Karen Dalton "Take Me" (from In My Own Time, 1971)
Take me in your darkest room
Close every window and bolt every door
The very first moment I heard your voice
I'd be in darkness no more
Take me to the most barren desert
A thousand miles from the nearest sea
The very moment I saw your smile
It would be like heaven to me
There's not any mountain too rugged to climb
No desert too barren to cross
Darlin' if you would just show a sign
of love, I could bear with all loss
Take me to Siberia
And the coldest weather of the winter time,
And it would be just like spring in California
As long as I knew you were mine
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Oh you sexy hermaphrodite ladies....your sexy lady bits, and your sexy man bits, too. Even you must be into you.

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"it's got to be Sweet 16's not M-16's..." priceless... how's the rest of the album?
Click the Red Arrow NOW .
9/19/70 one of my favorite all-time Dead shows. Absolutely smoking show.
Set two:
d3t01 - Dark Star ->
d3t02 - St. Stephen ->
d3t03 - Not Fade Away ->
d3t04 - Darkness Jam ->
d3t05 - China Cat Jam ->
d3t06 - Not Fade Away ->
d3t07 - Turn On Your Lovelight
d3t08 - Crowd noise > Youngbloods: Get Together... ->
d3t09 - Phil and Pigpen speak ->
d3t10 - Youngbloods: Get Together -> Crowd noise

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shit, i wish i had time for the phil and pig speech..........




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you're right! what a seductive voice! so aching and haunting...
she's got a Billie Holiday vibe to her... me likey... oh sorry jameson didn't realize you were ::having a moment:: with Karen in this, the darkest room ;)
didn't you notice the tie on the doorknob!!!!! haha.