Vinyl find!! Some of the greatest songs of the 1960's were written by Tim Hardin. Classics like "If I Were A Carpenter" and "Reason To Believe."
Here's a collection of songs written and recorded during that period, 1964-1966 but that never made it to his released albums from those years. It's fascinating fifty years later, hearing these gems for the first time. Especially upon realizing that his sound was a different direction from The Beatles or Bob Dylan. Listening to these recordings is like finding buried treasure!!
From starting out listening to my parents records to staying up late at night listening to the radio to being introduced to album collecting as a teenager to making mix-tapes and into the present, it seems that I've always been searching for and listening to music of widely varied genres. Here's an idea of what I've been hearing along the way ....
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Leo Kottke
Leo Kottke - 12 String Blues: Live at the Scholar Coffeehouse. On the Oblivion Recording Company label. From 1969. Found today at my old rec...
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'Floating' by Warren Bernhardt. From 1979, on vinyl. I read yesterday, that Warren Bernhardt had passed away a few days ago at 82 ye...
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Peter Gabriel - i/o. It's on order but won't arrive for a few more days. I'm considering taking the day off from work. I used to...
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