Cotton Eyed Joe (album)

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Cotton Eyed Joe is a live album by Karen Dalton recorded in October 1962, but not released until 2007, in 2×CD + DVD format.

At the time Dalton, her husband, and daughter lived in a shack in the Colorado mountains, without electricity or running water, and she would occasionally play at the Attic, a folk club in Boulder, Colorado. The album is a recording of a performance there, made by the club's co-proprietor and a friend of Dalton's, Joe Loop.^[1]

Track listing

CD 1

1. It's All Right (Ray Charles) – 5:45
2. Everytime I Think Of Freedom (trad.) – 3:03
3. Cotton-Eyed Joe (trad.) – 4:31
4. Pastures of Plenty (Woody Guthrie) – 3:52
5. One May Morning (trad.) – 4:17
6. Red Are The Flowers (Fred Neil) – 5:31
7. Blues On The Ceiling (Fred Neil) – 3:20
8. Run Tell That Major (trad.) – 3:22
9. Down And Out (Jimmy Cox) – 3:43
10. Fannin' Street (Huddie Ledbetter) – 2:33

CD 2

1. In The Evening (Leroy Carr) – 5:10
2. Old Hannah (trad.) – 3:27
3. Pallet On Your Floor (Jelly Roll Morton) – 3:38
4. Prettiest Train (trad., Lomax Prison Recordings) – 4:10
5. Mole In The Ground (trad.) – 5:48
6. Darlin' Corey (trad.) – 4:42
7. It Hurts Me Too (Mel London) – 4:12
8. Katie Cruel (trad.) – 2:34
9. Blackjack (Ray Charles) – 3:12
10. No More Taters (trad.) – 4:57
11. Good Morning Blues (Huddie Ledbetter) – 3:36

DVD

1. God Bless The Child (Holiday-Herzog)
2. It Hurts Me Too (London)
3. Little Bit Of Rain (Fred Neil)
4. Blues Jumped The Rabbit (trad.)

Personnel

• Karen Dalton : vocals, 12-string guitar, banjo
• Joe Loop: recording

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