KAREN DALTON - IT'S SO HARD TO TELL WHO'S GOING TO LOVE YOU THE BEST

There are so many comparisons to be drawn between women with "soulful" and "world-weary" voices but it's more fun to listen with an ear outside these. Songs like "Ribbon Bow" are transporting enough to take us beyond some kind of structure of cultural influence and just feel a little thrill in our hot red hearts.

It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best is Dalton's first album, recorded in 1969 on Capitol. She played 12-string guitar and banjo. The album is a compact 31-and-a-half minutes. 



Track listing:
1. "Little Bit of Rain" (Fred Neil)0:00
2. "Sweet Substitute" (Jelly Roll Morton)2:35
3. "Ribbon Bow" (Trad./Karen Dalton)5:18
4. "I Love You More Than Words Can Say" (Eddie Floyd, Booker T. Jones)8:18
5. "In the Evening (It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best)" (Leroy Carr)11:52
6. "Blues on the Ceiling" (Fred Neil)16:24
7. "It Hurts Me Too" (Mel London)20:00
8. "How Did the Feeling Feel to You" (Tim Hardin)23:08
9. "Right, Wrong or Ready" (Major Wiley)26:04
10. "Down on the Street (Don't You Follow Me Down)" (Lead Belly)29:03