Word: daltonics
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Acts like Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Hecuba, and Sufjan Stevens—a whole family of contemporary musicians of congenial tastes, really—are both obsessed with Karen Dalton and indebted to her. Bob Dylan called her his “favorite singer in the place” in his autobiography. So why do so few know about...
Born in Enid, Okla., Dalton was married and divorced twice before the age of 21. It was not long until she made her way to Greenwich Village at a time when residence all but required one to be a bard or a banjo player. She was beautiful, too. “Karen was tall, willowy, had straight black hair, was long-waisted and slender, what we all wanted to look like,” Lacy J. Dalton, a self-described “hard-luck” chanteuse and former fellow West Villager, has said. She could certainly sing...
...beat generation that felt you had to be burning the candle both ends and dying of hunger to call yourself an artist,” Lacy J. Dalton said in an interview with The Guardian. “I’ve always called them canaries in the coalmine, because they were in some ways hypersensitive to what was going on in the world. They were expressing their feelings of powerlessness and they felt they should live, do drugs, drink, whatever to take the pain away.” Like Bessie Smith, when Dalton sang a song it seemed...
...Karen Dalton may be called a folk musician, but really, I think she just hung out with a fair number of people who thought of themselves as folk singers...
...same music, you won't necessarily find the same tunes on each. MySpace gets most of its major-label music directly from record companies; Imeem gets those same songs from members who upload tracks from their personal archives. "We're really crowd-sourcing our music," says Imeem founder Dalton Caldwell, which is arguably a more democratic way to make the most popular tunes available first. Before songs can be shared on Imeem, the site checks the digital fingerprint of each track to make sure it has the legal right to distribute it. If not, members can only hear...