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I've been listening to him a lot this week. First got into his songs via cover versions by Bobby Darin on an LP my mum had, and all the classics are on those first two albums. He seemed to dry up a bit for the next few albums, with Tim Hardin 3 & 4 being a live album and early blues recordings respectively. The fifth album 'This Is Tim Hardin' appears to be really scraping the bottom of the barrel, with a further collection of early recordings, some of which overlap with TH4, but it's worth having for a purely solo collection with no backing group and some incredibly powerful vocals. But then came the adventurous 'Suite For Susan More' and a few more patchy but sometimes great albums mixing originals and covers. Amazing that he once did a concert with Can as his backing band and spent some of his last years in England where he could get free treatment for his heroin addiction on the NHS. I'm sure I read he did small gigs in cafes while in the UK. Just imagine going for a cup of coffee and finding Tim Hardin performing!
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