Cotton Eyed Joe | ||||
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Live album by | ||||
Released | 2007 | |||
Recorded | October 1962 | |||
Venue | The Attic, Boulder, Colorado | |||
Genre | Folk blues | |||
Label | Megaphone Music | |||
Producer | Joe Loop | |||
Karen Dalton chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | link |
Pitchfork Media | (8.0/10) - link |
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. [1]
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