Karen J. Dalton (July 19, 1937 March 19, 1993) was an American folk blues singer and banjo player associated with the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene. Captured by a friend on a portable reel-to-reel, this 14-song collection finds the late folk singer in a cabin in Colorado, rehearsing for an upcoming show with her (soon-to-be-ex) husband. Dalton hated recording and felt at best ambivalent about performing in front of strangers (she much preferred playing for friends, on porches and in living rooms), which means that although she’s got one of those voices that gets talked about in hushed, reverent tones by everyone from Bob Dylan to Devendra Banhart, she preferred to sit out the kind of rituals that secure a person a snug spot in the canon. She didn’t don face paint and a gypsy costume and hit the road with the Rolling Thunder Revue, she didn’t dance