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) â 5:45
- "Everytime I Think of Freedom" (Traditional) â 3:03
- "Cotton-Eyed Joe" (Traditional) â 4:31
- "Pastures of Plenty" (Woody Guthrie) â 3:52
- "One May Morning" (Traditional) â 4:17
- "Red Are the Flowers" (Fred Neil) â 5:31
- "Blues On the Ceiling" (Fred Neil) â 3:20
- "Run Tell That Major" (Traditional) â 3:22
- "Down and Out" (Jimmy Cox) â 3:43
- "Fannin' Street" (Huddie Ledbetter) â 2:33
CD 2
- "In The Evening" (Leroy Carr) â 5:10
- "Old Hannah" (Traditional) â 3:27
- "Pallet On Your Floor" (Jelly Roll Morton) â 3:38
- "Prettiest Train" (Traditional, Lomax Prison Recordings) â 4:10
- "Mole in the Ground" (Traditional) â 5:48
- "Darlin' Corey" (Traditional) â 4:42
- "It Hurts Me Too" (Mel London) â 4:12
- "Katie Cruel" (Traditional) â 2:34
- "Blackjack" (Ray Charles) â 3:12
- "No More Taters" (Traditional) â 4:57
- "Good Morning Blues" (Huddie Ledbetter) â 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)
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