Cotton Eyed Joe is a live album by American musician Karen Dalton recorded in October 1962, but not released until 2007, as a set of two CDs and a DVD.
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.
Track listing CD 1 "It's All Right" (Ray Charles) – 5:45 "Everytime I Think of Freedom" (Traditional) – 3:03 "Cotton-Eyed Joe" (Traditional) – 4:31 "Pastures of Plenty" (Woody Guthrie) – 3:52 "One May Morning" (Traditional) – 4:17 "Red Are the Flowers" (Fred Neil) – 5:31 "Blues On the Ceiling" (Fred Neil) – 3:20 "Run Tell That Major" (Traditional) – 3:22 "Down and Out" (Jimmy Cox) – 3:43 "Fannin' Street" (Huddie Ledbetter) – 2:33 CD 2 "In The Evening" (Leroy Carr) – 5:10 "Old Hannah" (Traditional) – 3:27 "Pallet On Your Floor" (Jelly Roll Morton) – 3:38 "Prettiest Train" (Traditional, Lomax Prison Recordings) – 4:10 "Mole in the Ground" (Traditional) – 5:48 "Darlin' Corey" (Traditional) – 4:42 "It Hurts Me Too" (Mel London) – 4:12 "Katie Cruel" (Traditional) – 2:34 "Blackjack" (Ray Charles) – 3:12 "No More Taters" (Traditional) – 4:57 "Good Morning Blues" (Huddie Ledbetter) – 3:36 DVD "God Bless the Child" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr.) "It Hurts Me Too" (Mel London) "Little Bit of Rain" (Fred Neil) "Blues Jumped The Rabbit" (Traditional)
Personnel Karen Dalton - vocals, 12-string guitar, banjo Technical Joe Loop - recording
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