Cotton Eyed Joe (album)

Cotton Eyed Joe is a live album by American musician Karen Dalton recorded in October 1962, but not released until 2007, as a set of two CDs and a DVD.

Cotton Eyed Joe
Live album by
Released2007
RecordedOctober 1962
VenueThe Attic, Boulder, Colorado
GenreFolk blues
LabelMegaphone Music
ProducerJoe Loop
Karen Dalton chronology
In My Own Time
(1971)
Cotton Eyed Joe
(2007)
Green Rocky Road
(2008)
Professional ratings
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Pitchfork Media(8.0/10) - link

At the time Dalton, her husband, and daughter lived in a shack in the Colorado mountains, without electricity or running water, and she would occasionally play at the Attic, a folk club in Boulder, Colorado. The album is a recording of a performance there, made by the club's co-proprietor and a friend of Dalton's, Joe Loop.[1]

Track listing

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CD 1
  1. "It's All Right" (Ray Charles) – 5:45
  2. "Everytime I Think of Freedom" (Traditional) – 3:03
  3. "Cotton-Eyed Joe" (Traditional) – 4:31
  4. "Pastures of Plenty" (Woody Guthrie) – 3:52
  5. "One May Morning" (Traditional) – 4:17
  6. "Red Are the Flowers" (Fred Neil) – 5:31
  7. "Blues On the Ceiling" (Fred Neil) – 3:20
  8. "Run Tell That Major" (Traditional) – 3:22
  9. "Down and Out" (Jimmy Cox) – 3:43
  10. "Fannin' Street" (Huddie Ledbetter) – 2:33
CD 2
  1. "In The Evening" (Leroy Carr) – 5:10
  2. "Old Hannah" (Traditional) – 3:27
  3. "Pallet On Your Floor" (Jelly Roll Morton) – 3:38
  4. "Prettiest Train" (Traditional, Lomax Prison Recordings) – 4:10
  5. "Mole in the Ground" (Traditional) – 5:48
  6. "Darlin' Corey" (Traditional) – 4:42
  7. "It Hurts Me Too" (Mel London) – 4:12
  8. "Katie Cruel" (Traditional) – 2:34
  9. "Blackjack" (Ray Charles) – 3:12
  10. "No More Taters" (Traditional) – 4:57
  11. "Good Morning Blues" (Huddie Ledbetter) – 3:36
DVD
  1. "God Bless the Child" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr.)
  2. "It Hurts Me Too" (Mel London)
  3. "Little Bit of Rain" (Fred Neil)
  4. "Blues Jumped The Rabbit" (Traditional)

Personnel

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Technical
  • Joe Loop - recording

References

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  1. ^ Deusner, Stephen M. (December 7, 2007). "Karen Dalton: Cotton Eyed Joe". pitchfork.com. Retrieved 16 March 2013.