LP Karen Dalton - In My Own Time (50th)

Recorded over a six-month period in 1970/71 at Bearsville, In My Own Time was Dalton's only fully planned and realized studio album. The material was carefully selected and crafted for her by producer/musician Harvey Brooks, the Renaissance man of rock-jazz who played bass on Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited and Miles’ Bitches Brew. It features ten songs that reflect Dalton's incredible ability to break just about anybody's heart – from her spectral evocation of Joe Tate's “One Night of Love” to the dark tragedy of the traditional “Katie Cruel.” Known as a great interpreter of choice material, Dalton could master both country and soul genres with hauntingly pining covers of George Jones' “Take Me” and Holland-Dozier-Holland's “How Sweet It Is.”