Bob Dylan Called Her His Favourite Singer. She Refused To Be Famous. | Karen Dalton Ore 14 Sera [Y09dQMIHk52]

Bob Dylan wrote that Karen Dalton was his favourite singer in Greenwich Village. Her voice, he said, was "like Billie Holiday's, and she played the guitar like Jimmy Reed."

She made two albums. She hated catholic school them both. She refused to tour. She refused interviews. She turned her back to audiences and sang to the wall. She died in 1993 at fifty-five, in a small Catskills cabin, and the New York Times obituary got her age wrong.

And then, twenty years later, a new generation Adele, Nick Cave, Devendra Banhart, Angel Olsen found her records on their own and started to say, out loud, that Karen Dalton was one of the great American voices of the twentieth century.

She had been pbks vs dc right about herself. She had also been wrong about the albums. This is her story.

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