Real name: Karen J. Dalton née Jean Karen Cariker

Effective period / Period of releases: 1969 - 2022

Karen J. Dalton (born July 19, 1937 - died March 19, 1993) was an American folk blues singer and banjo player whose heritage was Cherokee. She was born as Jean Karen Cariker in Enid, Oklahoma. She sang blues, folk, country, pop, Motown. She played the twelve string Gibson guitar and a long neck banjo, and became associated with the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene, particularly with Fred Neil and the Holy Modal Rounders as well as Bob Dylan. She died from an AIDS related illness.