Shuckinâ Sugar
Gatefold digipak includes a 24-page booklet including newly discovered unseen and rare photos, newspaper clippings, artwork by Karen, and a heartfelt 6,000-word essay by UK journalist and author Kris Needs. Previously unreleased on CD Karen Dalton performance featuring seven never before heard songs.
In 1962, Karen summoned Richard Tucker to join her in Colorado, extolling the healthier lifestyle, and plentiful gigs at Boulder folk club The Attic. Upon his arrival, the pair solidified their personal and professional relationship, riding horses in the mountains, and performing as a duo at parties and venues throughout Denver and Boulder. Stories of the spell they conjured â and rumours of tapes! â have circulated among friends and musicians who witnessed them, but until now, no recorded evidence had turned up. Shuckinâ Sugar is the glorious result of three reel to reel tapes that miraculously found their way to us in November, 2018; which featured two complete shows from The Attic in January â63, and a benefit concert for The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) recorded the following February.
Their gigs would often include brief solo sets from Karen and Richard, in addition to the duets, and all seven solo songs of Karenâs found on the three reels are included here, as well as five duets, sequenced as close to how it all went down as humanly possible. To describe the record would take a poet, but all I can say is that unveiling a missing chapter in the Karen Dalton story â with six songs weâve never heard her sing before â is cause for celebration in Delmoreâs world.
âFrom her opening, jaw-dropping lift-off with early blues standard âTrouble In Mind,â the unique otherworld Karen conjured springs into vivid life. Playing to audiences inevitably bound to the eraâs formalities and traditions, Karen instinctively pushed the envelope, straying into uncharted territory beyond the established borders. She must have bewildered many who came to see her in those winsome Peter, Paul and Mary times." From the liner notes by Kris Needs
Tracklist
Trouble In Mind
If You're A Viper
When First Unto This Country
Shiloh Town
Shuckin' Sugar Blues
Everytime I Think Of Freedom
Ribbon Bow
Blues Jumped The Rabbit
Lonesome Valley
When I Get Home
In The Pines
Katie Cruel
Gatefold digipak includes a 24-page booklet including newly discovered unseen and rare photos, newspaper clippings, artwork by Karen, and a heartfelt 6,000-word essay by UK journalist and author Kris Needs. Previously unreleased on CD Karen Dalton performance featuring seven never before heard songs.
In 1962, Karen summoned Richard Tucker to join her in Colorado, extolling the healthier lifestyle, and plentiful gigs at Boulder folk club The Attic. Upon his arrival, the pair solidified their personal and professional relationship, riding horses in the mountains, and performing as a duo at parties and venues throughout Denver and Boulder. Stories of the spell they conjured â and rumours of tapes! â have circulated among friends and musicians who witnessed them, but until now, no recorded evidence had turned up. Shuckinâ Sugar is the glorious result of three reel to reel tapes that miraculously found their way to us in November, 2018; which featured two complete shows from The Attic in January â63, and a benefit concert for The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) recorded the following February.
Their gigs would often include brief solo sets from Karen and Richard, in addition to the duets, and all seven solo songs of Karenâs found on the three reels are included here, as well as five duets, sequenced as close to how it all went down as humanly possible. To describe the record would take a poet, but all I can say is that unveiling a missing chapter in the Karen Dalton story â with six songs weâve never heard her sing before â is cause for celebration in Delmoreâs world.
âFrom her opening, jaw-dropping lift-off with early blues standard âTrouble In Mind,â the unique otherworld Karen conjured springs into vivid life. Playing to audiences inevitably bound to the eraâs formalities and traditions, Karen instinctively pushed the envelope, straying into uncharted territory beyond the established borders. She must have bewildered many who came to see her in those winsome Peter, Paul and Mary times." From the liner notes by Kris Needs
Tracklist
Trouble In Mind
If You're A Viper
When First Unto This Country
Shiloh Town
Shuckin' Sugar Blues
Everytime I Think Of Freedom
Ribbon Bow
Blues Jumped The Rabbit
Lonesome Valley
When I Get Home
In The Pines
Katie Cruel
Description
Gatefold digipak includes a 24-page booklet including newly discovered unseen and rare photos, newspaper clippings, artwork by Karen, and a heartfelt 6,000-word essay by UK journalist and author Kris Needs. Previously unreleased on CD Karen Dalton performance featuring seven never before heard songs.
In 1962, Karen summoned Richard Tucker to join her in Colorado, extolling the healthier lifestyle, and plentiful gigs at Boulder folk club The Attic. Upon his arrival, the pair solidified their personal and professional relationship, riding horses in the mountains, and performing as a duo at parties and venues throughout Denver and Boulder. Stories of the spell they conjured â and rumours of tapes! â have circulated among friends and musicians who witnessed them, but until now, no recorded evidence had turned up. Shuckinâ Sugar is the glorious result of three reel to reel tapes that miraculously found their way to us in November, 2018; which featured two complete shows from The Attic in January â63, and a benefit concert for The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) recorded the following February.
Their gigs would often include brief solo sets from Karen and Richard, in addition to the duets, and all seven solo songs of Karenâs found on the three reels are included here, as well as five duets, sequenced as close to how it all went down as humanly possible. To describe the record would take a poet, but all I can say is that unveiling a missing chapter in the Karen Dalton story â with six songs weâve never heard her sing before â is cause for celebration in Delmoreâs world.
âFrom her opening, jaw-dropping lift-off with early blues standard âTrouble In Mind,â the unique otherworld Karen conjured springs into vivid life. Playing to audiences inevitably bound to the eraâs formalities and traditions, Karen instinctively pushed the envelope, straying into uncharted territory beyond the established borders. She must have bewildered many who came to see her in those winsome Peter, Paul and Mary times." From the liner notes by Kris Needs
Tracklist
Trouble In Mind
If You're A Viper
When First Unto This Country
Shiloh Town
Shuckin' Sugar Blues
Everytime I Think Of Freedom
Ribbon Bow
Blues Jumped The Rabbit
Lonesome Valley
When I Get Home
In The Pines
Katie Cruel
