Tim Hardin

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Tim Hardin

Tim Hardin (born December 23, 1941 in Eugene , Oregon , USA ; † December 29, 1980 in Los Angeles ) was an American folk and blues rock musician.

Life

At 18, Hardin, the son of a concertmaster and naval jazz bassist (not, it has been claimed, descended from desperado and gunslinger John Wesley Hardin), left high school to enroll in the Marines . He fought with the Marines in Indochina and became a drug addict there. After he was released there, he moved to New York in 1961 , where he briefly attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts . However, he soon had to leave after missing classes there too often. Now, after having struggled to free himself from his addiction to hard drugs, he began to concentrate on his musical career as a singer, accompanied by guitar and piano, by performing as a blues musician around the Greenwich Village .

After meeting the manager Erik Jacobsen, he increasingly developed his own style and began to write his own compositions. At that time (1966) he lived with Lenny Bruce and made his first demo recordings.

  • When recording TIM HARDIN 1 , he was often in bad shape because of his drug addiction; many arrangements were produced without his intervention. Nevertheless, his debut album from 1966 is a milestone in modern pop music; blues , folk , country and soul combine here .
  • For TIM HARDIN 2 the producers Charles Koppelman and Don Rubin had to record Tim Hardin alone with vocals and guitar and build the rest of the arrangements without him, because at that time he was already having a hard time concentrating and was constantly restructuring and reorganizing his songs interpreted.
  • TIM HARDIN 3 , a live album, was released in 1968. For the most part, material from the first two albums is offered. Some of the interpretations are very different from the studio versions.
  • TIM HARDIN 4 only contained early blues recordings that were only released to get Hardin and not least the record company quick money. The quality of these recordings is below its normal level.
  • His 1969 album Suite for Susan Moore and Damion-We Are-One, All in One was then completely recorded in-house to ensure that Hardin's inspired phases could be captured right away. The result is a minimalist blues folk record.
  • In the late 1960s in particular, he published an impressive number of works in the styles of blues, jazz and folk ( Tim Hardin 1, 2 and Suite ), but without ever having great success with the general public.

Carried away by heroin use , which he began early in his career, Hardin's albums became fickle in the late 1960s and his commercial opportunities dwindled, despite the fact that he managed to perform at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 . Due to frequent problems with drugs , his poor health and lack of new material, he did not finish a new album after Nine 1973.

His old friend Phil Freeman organized a concert in 1980 called The Homecoming Concert . Accompanied by guitar and piano, Hardin shows himself to be very vital on this live recording (the last one before his death). Shortly thereafter, he also began writing and producing new songs. The posthumous album Unforgiven 1981 bears witness to this with eight tracks.

Tim Hardin died in 1980 at an overdose of heroin and morphine and was at Twin Oaks Cemetery in Turner in his home state of Oregon buried.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Suite for Susan Moore and Damion: We Are One, One, All in One
  US 129 05/17/1969 (8 weeks)
Bird on a Wire
  US 189 07/31/1971 (1 week)
Singles
Hang On To A Dream
  UK 50 01/11/1967 (1 week)
Simple Song Of Freedom
  US 50 08/02/1969 (7 weeks)
  • Tim Hardin 1 (1966)
  • Tim Hardin 2 (1967)
  • This is Tim Hardin (1967)
  • Tim Hardin 3 Live in Concert (1968)
  • Tim Hardin 4 (1969)
  • Suite for Susan Moore and Damion-We Are-One, All in One (1969)
  • The Best Of Tim Hardin (1969)
  • Bird on a Wire (1971)
  • Painted Head (1972)
  • Nine (1973)
  • Unforgiven (1981)
  • The Homecoming Concert (1981)
  • The Tim Hardin Memorial Album (1981)
  • The Shock of Grace (1981)
  • Reason To Believe (Best Of) (1990)
  • Hang On to a Dream: The Verve Recordings (1994)
  • Simple Songs Of Freedom: The Tim Hardin Collection (1996)

Cover versions

Many of his songs, often slow and very soulful, later became known through numerous cover versions :

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: UK US
personal data
SURNAME Hardin, Tim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Eugene , Oregon
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1980
Place of death los Angeles