Karen Black was a 1970s cult movie star and an LGBTQ icon — she was also a singer-songwriter, and a posthumous new album finally gives her countypolitian-meets-Laurel Canyon pop songs their due. The story behind 'Dreaming of You'
, a collection of never-released recordings that Black left behind after her cancer-related death in 2013 at age 74. On its 15 vintage songs, along with two tracks recorded just over a decade ago with indie singer-songwriter Cass McCombs, Black is not the intense, deliciously over-the-top screen diva of yore. Instead, she’s a dreamy, languid troubadour who sings lazy-day country pop , Laurel Canyon pop or folk ballads worthy of Joan Baez .
Like those who’d followed her career, Eckelberry, who met and married Black in the Eighties, was aware of the way in which music infiltrated her work. She and co-star Kris Kristofferson sang an impromptu duet in 1972’s, about a down-on-his-luck musician. In an interview at the time, she mentioned she was cutting an album of what she called “soft rock” songs, including covers of songs by Kristofferson and the Beatles.
In a storage space in Los Angeles, where Black had stashed boxes of memorabilia in the early Eighties, Eckelberry uncovered several boxes of randomly marked tapes from the Seventies. With McCombs on board, the arduous process of sifting through the tapes began. One box, tantalizingly marked “Karen Black and Randy Newman,” contained no actual tape inside but suggests a long-lost collaboration.
Eckelberry says his late wife, who supported gay rights, was well aware of her stature in the LGBTQ world. “I think it’s because she seemed like a diva, even though she wasn’t one,” he says. “She was so expressive. There was nothing low key about her acting. It was never underplayed.
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