Cotton Eyed Joe (album)

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
 * 1) "It's All Right" (Ray Charles) – 5:45
 * 2) "Everytime I Think of Freedom" (Traditional) – 3:03
 * 3) "Cotton-Eyed Joe" (Traditional) – 4:31
 * 4) "Pastures of Plenty" (Woody Guthrie) – 3:52
 * 5) "One May Morning" (Traditional) – 4:17
 * 6) "Red Are the Flowers" (Fred Neil) – 5:31
 * 7) "Blues On the Ceiling" (Fred Neil) – 3:20
 * 8) "Run Tell That Major" (Traditional) – 3:22
 * 9) "Down and Out" (Jimmy Cox) – 3:43
 * 10) "Fannin' Street" (Huddie Ledbetter) – 2:33
 * CD 2
 * 1) "In The Evening" (Leroy Carr) – 5:10
 * 2) "Old Hannah" (Traditional) – 3:27
 * 3) "Pallet On Your Floor" (Jelly Roll Morton) – 3:38
 * 4) "Prettiest Train" (Traditional, Lomax Prison Recordings) – 4:10
 * 5) "Mole in the Ground" (Traditional) – 5:48
 * 6) "Darlin' Corey" (Traditional) – 4:42
 * 7) "It Hurts Me Too" (Mel London) – 4:12
 * 8) "Katie Cruel" (Traditional) – 2:34
 * 9) "Blackjack" (Ray Charles) – 3:12
 * 10) "No More Taters" (Traditional) – 4:57
 * 11) "Good Morning Blues" (Huddie Ledbetter) – 3:36
 * DVD
 * 1) "God Bless the Child" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr.)
 * 2) "It Hurts Me Too" (Mel London)
 * 3) "Little Bit of Rain" (Fred Neil)
 * 4) "Blues Jumped The Rabbit" (Traditional)

Personnel

 * Karen Dalton - vocals, 12-string guitar, banjo
 * Technical
 * Joe Loop - recording