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...even Halpern’s performance, as well as Petropulous’ four goals and one assist, could not propel Harvard over the twelth-ranked Terriers. BU’s Sarah Dalton and Curro finished the contest with five goals apiece, and in the process Dalton??a senior All-American—broke her school’s career-scoring record with her 191st goal...
Upon repeated listening to her second and final album, 1971’s “In My Own Time,” I felt at times as though Dalton??s voice were somehow not her own—as if it were instead the collected reincarnations of ancient, yellowed experiences, the culmination and distillation of a million cornmeal-flavored caterwauls that once blared out across an America long since passed away...
Perhaps this is why the idea of Dalton??what she represents, as opposed to who she was—feels so relatable. There is something in her languorous pronunciation of consonants—L’s and R’s morph into disyllabic sounds—that draws nebulous, martyrizing declarations out of those who knew her well and those who didn’t. “There was no fire behind her,” bass player and producer Harvey Brooks told NPR in reference to her attempts at studio recording...
...when listening to “Something On Your Mind,” a song she sings with both a fragility akin to Billie Holliday in her most heroin-addled years and a strength that rivals Lady Day at her best. I realized that knowing the specifics of Karen Dalton??s life are not as essential as they might be for another artist, and filling in the gaps in my image of her was a potential waste of time, for her music is just that masterful—it contextualizes itself. It was then that I realized just...
Rollingstone.com and rhapsody.com both have free streams of Dalton??s second and most accessible album, as well as her 1969 debut album “It’s So Hard to Tell Who’s Going to Love You the Best.” While once the prized secret possession of Formers—that is, former writers at now-defunct music magazines, former proprietors of coffee shops that keeled over and died as soon as disco came about—the aforementioned coterie of contemporary musicians are more than indicative of not only Dalton?...