Listening to Angel Olsen’s records used to feel like stumbling into an empty roadside bar and finding the greatest torch singer the world had ever forgotten. She sang about loneliness and mistrust, her voice burning pure and intense whether the guitars were solo-acoustic or electric and in the red. The …
Read More »Angel Olsen Read Karen Dalton's Journals in a Recent Documentary. Now, She's Covering the Folk Singer
Last year, Angel Olsen was featured in the Karen Dalton documentary In My Own Time, reading the late folk singer’s journals out loud. Now, she continues her love of Dalton with a cover of “Something on Your Mind.” Olsen stays in the same vein as Dalton’s original — the opening …
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