Supriya Ghosh (Editor)

It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Length
  
30:46

Artist
  
Karen Dalton

Producer
  
Nick Venet

It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best (1969)
  
In My Own Time (1971)

Release date
  
1969

Label
  
Capitol Records

It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best httpslightintheattics3amazonawscomupload

Released
  
1969 August 19, 1997 (reissue)

Recorded
  
1969 at Studio A, The Record Plant, New York City

Genres
  
Blues, Folk music, Country blues

Similar
  
In My Own Time, Cotton Eyed Joe, Oar, The Marble Index, Just Another Diamond

It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best is the debut album by American folk blues musician Karen Dalton, originally released in 1969 by Capitol Records (see 1969 in music).

Contents

The album was subsequently reissued on CD by the Koch label in 1997. Extended liner notes were written by Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders, who writes:

In 2006, Megaphone issued the album again, this time with new packaging, a new booklet and a DVD with archival footage.

In 2009, Light In The Attic Records, once again, reissued the album on vinyl with new packaging and liner notes.

Little bit of rain karen dalton


Track listing

  1. "Little Bit of Rain" (Fred Neil) – 2:30
  2. "Sweet Substitute" (Jelly Roll Morton) – 2:40
  3. "Ribbon Bow" (Traditional; adapted by Karen Dalton) – 2:55
  4. "I Love You More Than Words Can Say" (Eddie Floyd, Booker T. Jones) – 3:30
  5. "In the Evening (It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best)" (Leroy Carr) – 4:29
  6. "Blues on the Ceiling" (Fred Neil) – 3:30
  7. "It Hurts Me Too" (Mel London) – 3:05
  8. "How Did the Feeling Feel to You" (Tim Hardin) – 2:52
  9. "Right, Wrong or Ready" (Major Wiley) – 2:58
  10. "Down on the Street (Don't You Follow Me Down)" (Lead Belly) – 2:17

Personnel

  • Karen Dalton - 12-string guitar, banjo, vocals
  • Kim King - electric guitar
  • Dan Hankin - acoustic guitar
  • Harvey Brooks - bass
  • Gary Chester - percussion
  • Lillian Douma, Sandy Fisher - engineers
  • Joel Brodsky - photography
  • Songs

    1Little Bit of Rain2:36
    2Sweet Substitute2:43
    3Ribbon Bow3:00

    References

    It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best Wikipedia