Filmmaker Robert Yapkowitz and singer-songwriter Margo Price guest stars
The event is over. Karen Dalton: In My Own Time released November 16
Join us for a web screening of it Karen Dalton: In My Own Time. Bob Boylen from All songs are reviewed will be joined by director Robert Yapkowitz and singer-songwriter Margo Price in a live chat about the film.
Oklahoma-born Karen Dalton of Cherokee and Irish descent had a voice like no other – with a bluesy swagger and twang steeped in folk music but unbound by tradition. In the two albums released during his lifetime (1969 It's so hard to say who will love you better and of 1971 On my own time), she performed extensively and covered covers, but after hearing her version of “Reason to Believe” or “Katie Cruel,” there was simply no substitute. “Whether it's in her voice or her arrangements,” said Vagabon's Laetitia Tamko. Morning Edition“he had something he was trying to convey to everyone.”
That's part of the joy Karen Dalton: In My Own Time, a documentary featuring interviews with the likes of Nick Cave and Vanessa Carlton, Dalton's journals and poetry read by Angel Olsen, along with music composed by Julia Holter. But the film also spends time in Dalton's darkness: her struggle to be understood artistically, her constant poverty, drug and alcohol abuse, and her eventual death from AIDS in 1993. For an artist once lost in time and rediscovered by a new generation through reissues and TV shows, is a film that reveals part of the mystery that covers both her work and her life.