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KAREN DALTON

Recording Is The Trip: The Karen Dalton Archives Box Set MEGAPHONE

SENT out to support Santana on a 1971 European tour, Karen Dalton may have realised that mainstream success was never going to be her thing. Having spent the previous decade playing for change in the folk clubs of Boulder, Colorado and Greenwich Village, the Texan-born singer with a voice like a battered trumpet had never been much inclined to perform for audiences who weren’t prepared to listen. Faced with impatient crowds, tight schedules, less-than-rapt attention, she struggled.

“She had a stellar backup band and great support, but she was difficult to travel

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