Karen Dalton - Something On Your Mind (Alternate Mix)

"My favorite singer in the place was Karen Dalton. Karen had a voice like Billie Holiday's and played the guitar like Jimmy Reed." - Bob Dylan (from Chronicles, Vol.1)
"All I can say is that she sure can sing the shit out of the blues" - Fred Neil.
Karen Dalton recordings are available from lightintheattic... and feature wonderful liner notes from Nick Cave, Devendra Banhart,Lenny Kaye and others.
This video is a humble little tribute. No copyright infringement is intended. All images and music belong to their respective owners. It is made by fans for fans and not for profit or gain.
Yesterday any way you made it was just fine,
So you turned your days into night-time,
Didn't you know, you can't make it without ever even trying?
And something's on your mind, isn't it
Let these times show you that you're breaking up the lines,
Leaving all your dreams too far behind,
Didn't you see, you can't make it without ever even trying?
And something's on your mind.
Maybe another day you'll want to feel another way, you can't stop crying,
You haven't got a thing to say, you feel you want to run away
There's no use trying, anyway.
I've seen the writing on the wall,
Who cannot maintain will always fall,
Well, you know, you can't make it without ever even trying.
And something's on your mind, isn't it
Tell the truth now, isn't it
And something's on your mind, isn't it

[@markchester8716]

amazing song, i can listen to this on repeat for a long time

[@MultiMathis]

oh yes .... its sooo crazy good ... light in the atic just released this version... thats how i found it... share it with the world ... sooo so good

[@frereanaktom99]

nothing more to add. just want you tube too keep this profiled. karen was a queen

[@edwardgeorge8025]

a life saver...

[@ezradickey505]

Karen Dalton & Judee Sill, daughters of the heart & sisters of the soul.....

[@thegentleshepherd]

Two tracks I wrote randomly on the same oiece of paper having heard them at different times on radio 3. Judee Sill 'Lopin' and Karen Dalton 'Blues on the Ceiling'.

[@williammullis7773]

Love both of them each 1 as a sound of its own

[@rafgoblin2]

So beautiful, thank you

[@gavincook4684]

Sorry but I prefer the original version. It's more raw and her voice sounds more emotional and I can listen to her singing all day and the violins are fantastic.

[@monkeybone39]

Love this ❤

[@williammullis7773]

Love the bass in this

[@square1971]

whoa...this is very different. i need to let it sink in....

[@Sabrina-kx1om]

Qué bellas las filmaciones de Karen

[@maurolascorza5010]

A "Pearl" 💝

[@davemellow2571]

The original is so much more impactful for me because of the band's close empathy, especially the piano and the violin. But it's a blessing to have this alternate version. I believe this song may be Karen singing to herself about her own drug use which was a problem during the recording of the album, and which led her to end up dying young on the streets of New York. Friends in the early 70s went to see her in the Village and her huge stage fright made her leave the stage and not complete the show. I have read that she apparently bought into the idea that the artist, being so much more sensitive, has more need of substances. Don't know who plays on this version, but some of the musicians on the album went on to play behind Janis Joplin in the Full Tilt Boogie Band. Perhaps they were referred to Janis because of having backed Karen, another scratchy-voiced singer.

[@alfrede.neuman8898]

She died in a rented trailer owned by Peter Walker in West Hurley, NY on Eagles Nest Rd. The trailer is still there.

[@arnehepp]

I like this version better than the album version. I think everything that everything that version contains is concealed here. This one shows how things doesnt always have to be expressed att full level to still be felt.

[@MattDempsey5600]

Completely bizarre! I love it for it's difference..can't go past the album version, though. Her vocal line is amazing.

[@nachopetrone2904]

Te amo,me haces tanto bien.

[@yosukeDVJ]

love this version! kinda wish she sang with the intensity of the lp version to this instrumental! it's groovy :)

[@dc3189]

Sounds like too many people got their hands on this version..some one said..how can we make this sound more country!...

[@williammullis7773]

Still good love it little picked up

[@romaniukanton]

Nice!

[@philipparfitt2308]

Alternate and ace!

[@5661949]

philip parfitt

[@PR-bd1ky]

Wow

[@wolfgangbauer9843]

this alternate mix is so much better than the perfect original version. unique and great.

[@bacfrere]

I miss the violin

[@JoeMC7]

me too, this almost sounds too happy with the synth.

[@anthonybevilacqua3074]

Sounds like a new backing track with an alternate vocal put on top. If this were original I would at least expect where it came from, the musicians and producer to be listed in the credits.

[@glimmertwin1977]

I wonder who the musicians are on this cut - can't be the same people from the album version. Sounds like more polished/studio ready guys than the album version(who were kind of ragged, but made a more emotionally impactful version). Anybody got any details on where this version came from and who played on it?

[@BlueBeeMCMLXI]

Those original musicians were the best... look it up. Oh, forget it. You're a Modern.

[@elyb4097]

Thanks for this, it's kinda nice, though I prefer the other.

[@GabrielGonzalez-lk8bj]

right. the album one is much better

[@EknahZnark]

... the phrasing here is excellent(!), much more better than in the album version... it also has a greater emotional expression due to it´s more regular pitch, distance(?), softness and evenness in my opinion... it´s deeper...

[@BlueBeeMCMLXI]

Walk the dog. Go on...

[@williammullis7773]

Like music on 2nd veson

[@williammullis7773]

But yet the sam

[@Powerneck]

She would have hated it more than me 😂

[@williammullis7773]

The voice is better on this one

[@rowenaburley8374]

How dare you all that lot make her a knew thing to sell make the money as the new person they have found How funking dare you we all knew her She didn't want to be found by you lot Irony lost on people who don't care about......

[@TvDaddyAndTheTabloidArmy]

this version belongs on a Starbucks compilation. (that is Not a compliment lest any dunderheads think it is)

[@TvDaddyAndTheTabloidArmy]

no.

[@charlyW34]

I'm not sure what your motivation was in creating this, but I have to say you missed the mark. By increasing the "bounce" of the music you have diminished the emotional impact of the vocal. It's also obviously an overdub, as the tempo and accents of the vocal are out of sync with the backing. I suggest you keep the backing track and seek an appropriate singer to re cut the vocal. You may end up with a first rate cover version.

[@charlyW34]

@@lancejohnson127 Hi.Do you actually understand the issue? The original track by Karen is AMAZING. This phony "remix" has drums added that do not fit, and an obtrusive steel guitar that tends to conflict with the vocal.

[@natlee1160]

How to destroy a song in minutes

[@BlueBeeMCMLXI]

This is a complete forgery. The backing is recently recorded. The vocal, in a different TEMPO, has been lifted off the original recording and slapped down on this FAKE. StashPuppets is a phuqer. And to all the geniuses of "what does it mean?" - the song is not Karen's. It was given to her by the writer. ... there's this internyet thing - so go find out.

[@frankieandtheflowers]

The phrasing is so terrible over this backing track must have taken ages and still the sync sucks, how depressing, cheerful backing track tho, should record vocals like someone mentioned instead of this vampired Frankenstein version