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Stephen Konrads of The Peasantry

Maybe I should read liner notes more often...

Posted over 2 years ago

Artist:

Tim Hardin
Album:

Hang on to a Dream: The Verve Recordings
Track:
- PLAY
- QUEUE
Black Sheep Boy

I bought Tim Hardin 3: Live In Concert today. I had never listened to him before, but have read so many positive things and it was inexpensive and it was so sunny and I just had to step into Looney Tunes on my way home from Cambridge and drop thirty dollars on records. I had previously thought the song "Black Sheep Boy" was written by Okkervil River for their album of the same name. Now that I have both, the Okkervil River version is still great, but Tim Hardin's rendition makes it clear that there was quite a bit lost in translation.I missed MOG.

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Thierry Castaing says Tim 1 & 2 are amazing!

Permalink posted 11/18/2006
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ivylander says Hardin could be maddeningly lazy (something to do with being a junkie, perhaps?), but in his best moments, which are many, he had magic by the boatload.

Permalink posted 11/18/2006
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Stephen Konrads says Well...I think you'd be pretty hard pressed to find people from back then who weren't into all those wacky druggy things. But by maddeningly lazy what do you mean?

Permalink posted 11/18/2006
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ivylander says Sometimes he can't seem to be bothered to develop a lyrical idea beyond the sketch stage, or will repeat a vocal trick beyond the point where it charms or sounds fresh anymore. When he's on, he seems to capture a fleeting moment so perfectly that to say more would just ruin it. When he's not, he just sounds distracted. That's the way it seems to me, anyhow.

Permalink posted 11/19/2006
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Rran Almodovar says I feel that Tim Hardin is a bit under-rated as a songwriter and sorely under-rated as a singer. His delivery is so cooly fluid, a jazz-like rhythmic sophistication. While I understand the criticism expressed above, I think the fact of writing something like 10 really great songs and recording a good 20 beautiful versions of his own and others' compositions goes strongly against the "lazy" epithet. I personally am most fond of the Bird on a Wire album, where the interest is mainly in his vocals (I'm a sucker for singers with slight speech impediments, what is that almost-a lisp thing he has going on sometimes??)

Permalink posted 01/02/2008