Angel Olsen / Karen Dalton - Something On Your Mind

Angel Olsen covers Something On Your Mind, while Karen Dalton’s version is found on the flip. The latest release in Light in the Attic’s 7" Covers Series. Artwork by Los Angeles-based fine artist Robbie Simon.

Angel Olsen’s gorgeous cover of Karen Dalton’s moving interpretation of Something On Your Mind, is a song that enduringly underscores the unspoken thoughts, painful truths and buried emotions between people and within oneself. Thematically, the song is universal and resonates as much with listeners today emerging from a post-pandemic world as it did for Karen Dalton when she first recorded it in 1971 for her second and final studio album, In My Own Time. “‘Something On Your Mind’ for me is about letting yourself face something that keeps setting you back,” says Angel Olsen, who has come to the forefront of Karen Dalton appreciators around the world, both in her contribution of this new interpretation and as the voice of Dalton’s personal journals in the recent documentary, Karen Dalton: In My Own Time. As part of the latest installment of Light in the Attic’s long-running cover series, Angel’s cover is found on the a-side, while the flip includes Karen’s 1971 version.