His songs were, usually, miniature. But classic all the same. "Reason To Believe," "Misty Roses," Don't Make Promises," ""How Can We Hang On To A Dream," ""Black Sheep Boy," "Red Balloon," "The Lady Came from Baltimore." Not one of them is longer than 2 1/2 minutes, and quite a few are under 120 seconds long. It's puzzling to me that Tim Hardin isn't spoken of in the same reverent tones as Nick...
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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...
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Despite decades of record collecting and an intense music-listening habit, there are always those artists who seemed to slip through the cracks. You've read the critics' praise, heard of the drug-induced demise and you've thumbed through the LPs in the racks but never picked one up.After thirty years, I finally picked up Hang On to a Dream which compiles all his early material. Great stuff...pa...
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White guys singing hard-core black blues has always been a dubious category for me, falling in the “stock broker guy with ponytail” category. No one ever questioned Tim Hardin’s sincerity, however, and I think his vocals here sound like a man who’s lived the arc inscribed by the lyrics. This song has a Depression-era feel, although it dates to roaring 1922. Songwriting credit goes to Jimmi
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