Daniel Cramer x Karen Dalton =

I’m on my way home to Boulder this Sunday.

I have a few more papers to write, but my mind is already somewhere else, somewhere craggier. So here are some pictures of mountains by Daniel Gustave Cramer (by way of It’s Nice That).

And here is a 1962 recording of Karen Dalton performing “the Prettiest Train” at the Attic in Boulder (which I think used to be below what is now Buchanan’s Coffee on the Hill).

Dalton, “her husband, and her daughter lived in a small shack in the Colorado mountains, with no electricity or running water, but a splendid view and plenty of space to ride horses. Occasionally, Dalton would play at the Attic, which at that time was the nucleus for Boulder’s folk scene.” ::read a pitchfork review

This train has left the station, you know, this train

This train has left the station, I said, this train

This train has left the station, this train takes on every nation…