Karen Dalton

Karen J. Dalton (Jean Karen Cariker) (July 19, 1937 – March 19, 1993) was an American folk blues singer and banjo player associated with the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene, particularly with Fred Neil and the Holy Modal Rounders as well as Bob Dylan.

Dalton, whose heritage was Cherokee, was born in Enid, Oklahoma. She sang blues, folk, country, pop, Motown. She played the twelve string Gibson guitar and a long neck banjo.