Tim Rose (musician)
Tim Rose (* 23. September 1940 in Washington, DC ; † 24. September 2002 in London ) was an American folk - rock singer. His greatest hit is the title Morning Dew , although strictly speaking he did not write it and could not achieve a place in the charts with it .
Biography and musician career
Tim Rose turned to the music business after abandoning his apprenticeship as a priest and his military service in the early 1960s. He made his first recording with the group The Smoothies , to which u. a. John Philipps (later with The Mamas & the Papas ) and Scott McKenzie , who sang the anthem of the flower power movement with San Francisco in 1967 . With Michael Boran , who also belonged to this group, he briefly formed the duo "Michael and Timothy". The first professional collaboration arose with Cass Elliot - who later became known as a member of The Mamas & the Papas , and James Hendricks in the group "The Big 3", who recorded an LP in 1963 and 1964 respectively. Rose separated from the two when he learned that they had married without his knowledge.
Tim Rose began his career as a solo musician in the mid-1960s. In 1966 he released his first LP Tim Rose . His music was a mix of blues , folk and rock . Two tracks deserve special mention, on the one hand his version of Hey Joe from April 1966, which shortly afterwards influenced the much more successful interpretation by Jimi Hendrix in terms of speed, on the other hand the title Morning Dew , the apocalyptic vision of an earth after an atomic catastrophe.
The following albums by Tim Rose did not come close to his debut in terms of both the evaluation by the critics and the response from the audience. His LP The Gambler , which was recorded in 1977, was initially not released by his record company (only in 1991). Rose, who had spent some time in England in the 1970s, returned to the United States and largely turned away from the music business, worked in various industries, entered into a marriage that remained childless and eventually divorced, and had a long time massive drinking problems. In the 90s he got his life under control again and a second phase of musical creativity and partly also public recognition began. His first major concerts, a. a. in London's Royal Albert Hall , went back in 1996 on an initiative of Nick Cave , in 1997 a new album was released with Haunted . He spent the last years of his life mainly in England and Norway, where he a. a. 2001 appeared at the jazz and blues festival in Bergen and in 2002 participated in an album by the group Headwaiter .
Tim Rose died on September 24, 2002, immediately after his 62nd birthday, in a London hospital as a result of cancer surgery. His last album Snowed In was only released posthumously in 2003.
Morning Dew
Rose is often listed as the sole author of this title, but it cannot be denied that he took up and reinterpreted the song Take Me For A Walk (In The Morning Dew) by the Canadian folk singer Bonnie Dobson from around 1960 . Its more substantial changes consist on the one hand in the musical arrangement - the ballad, accompanied only by an acoustic guitar, became a rock song - and on the other hand in a slight change in the text. This changed the obvious statement of the original to a certain ambivalence, as if the catastrophe that was only hinted at could also have taken place on the relationship level. Dobson expressed the opinion in an interview that Rose had only covered her song without making a significant contribution of her own. Still, it seems the common reading to consider both of them as Morning Dew authors . After the release of Rose's version, a significant number of other covers were recorded, including Lulu , Grateful Dead , Blackfoot , Episode Six, the Jeff Beck Group (with vocals by Rod Stewart ), Nazareth and Clannad ; Later recordings come from Long John Baldry , Einstürzende Neubauten and Robert Plant , on whose album Dreamland the title appeared in the year Tim Rose died in 2002.
Discography
Only Tim Rose's solo albums are listed.
- 1967: Tim Rose
- 1969: Through Rose Colored Glasses
- 1970: Love - A Kind Of Hate Story
- 1974: Tim Rose
- 1975: The Musician
- 1976: Unfinished Song
- 1977/1991: The Gambler
- 1997: Haunted
- 2002: American Son
- 2003: Snowed In
Web links
- tim-rose.co.uk ( Memento of May 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- Tim Rose at Discogs (English)
- Tim Rose on songsinger.info
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rose, Tim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rose, Timothy Alan Patrick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 24, 2002 |
| Place of death | London |