Karen Dalton has one of those voices that completely knocked me out the first time I heard it.

Born in 1937 in Oklahoma, part of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s, closely connected to Bob Dylan, and yet almost unnoticed during her lifetime. 

Karen Dalton released only two albums before dying poor and ill from AIDS-related complications in Woodstock in 1993. Today she is regarded as one of the most striking voices in American folk and blues.

On her second album In My Own Time from 1971, you’ll find an incomparable version of When a Man Loves a Woman, the soul classic made famous by Percy Sledge. Dalton takes the song to a completely different level. Her voice is fragile yet deeply authentic, smoky and full of heart, vulnerable and at the same time incredibly strong.

A cover that strips everything down and reduces it to pure feeling. A version that shows just how exceptional a singer Karen Dalton was. A voice that goes straight to the heart. Timeless. Pure CoverLove.