Of great emotional impact.

The cow! Since Billie Holiday, I had not heard such a voice. An argument as convincing as its irresistible vocal organ, always on the verge of breaking, overshadows the fact that it is used here in the title to this record extension (It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You Best - 1969) to value other people's compositions. Others certainly, but Karen Dalton does not fly to the elbow, it is not a shopping stall the corner, but in Hardin, Neil Floyd, London, gourmet food shops of folk-blues. The lady storefront in his capacity as former madam of Cafe Wha? caeur in Greenwich Village, a place reputed to have been a sanctuary for gifted rock (Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Paul & Mary, Fred Neil, Bruce Springsteen ...). Karen Dalton, a native of Oklahoma, who plays the guitar like Jimmy Reed dixit Zim, is content here to interpret or borrowed from traditional tunes, songs of blues, folk and soul, but his performance touched by grace and distress, panic (late) all counters. It borders on the divine as one can realize today. Karen Dalton's friend, Fred Neil, muse, artists recognized by its congeners (Dylan and the Band, in particular), has not had the time it deserved glory with his two LP (especially this one ); she is only entitled to a posthumous recognition. Small consolation in light of this crude LP, amazing by its strong emotional impact and that ties hoses, but it's better than nothing. Produced by Nick Venet, the rash decision maker for Capitol (Fred Neil, Euphoria, Beach Boys ...), more than 300 albums in his wallet, which is often not important in the careers of groups he contributed to launch, It's So Hard (call it like that, it's easier) was against him being released after the wave folk, and while the hippies are beginning to shorten their "8 sheets" to move on . To change the course of events, it would have Karen Dalton dragged by the hair to the studios, a place that scared him and lose his means. We did not believe that was the case for this album privacy for evenings by candlelight as it is sublime (PLO54).