Karen Black the actress, screenwriter and singer, (best known for her roles in Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces and The Great Gatsby), has had an album called Dreaming of You (1971-76) just out. It's an interesting and diverting collection of songs.
Black has an evocative and haunting voice, somewhere in the tradition of Karen Dalton, Margo Guryan, Mama Cass and Sybille Bauer without ever matching the artistic heights of any of them really.
Nevertheless this is a fine set of tracks and Black acquitesherself well. A curio rather than an essential album but certainly worth a listen.
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