- Audio CD (17 Jan 2000)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Atlantic
- ASIN: B00000G6HM
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 704,160 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Format:Audio CD
This is early Hardin and worth having if you really like his work. Harding 1 & 2 are his best work.
Format:Audio CD
This album preceeds Tim Hardin 1, it is a mixture of self-penned and other artists/traditional songs, quite a few stand out tracks to please Hardin fans such as myself. Best track? (in my humble opinion), Blues on the Ceilin' written by Fred Neil. Worth adding to any Tim Hardin collection.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
This is Tim Hardin
29 Mar 2000
Format:Audio CD
I first listened to Tim Hardin let's say, a long time ago. I think it was after reading The Bob Dylan bio "No direction Home" by Robert Shelton. Well, I found this album on vinyl in very good shape. I think it's fantastic! It did'nt leave my turntable for months. The sound of alot of the songs is like listening to an old blues man. It is different in a lot of ways from Later Tim Hardin records.There is no heavy strings. It's mostly just Tim and his guitar. This is from the early 60's, and his vocals are filled with a hunger and soul. He also has a strong blues guitar style throughout. This Cd has been a "Desert Island" album of mine for years. Buy it! It will become a favorite.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Hardin at his best!!
2 May 2006
Format:Audio CD
This is the best album Hardin ever recorded. It was an early recording with only Hardin and his guitar in a vacant room. He was sober and his picking style is classic folk. If you want to listen to Hardin before he fell into the abyss, this is him at his best.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Hard to get but worth it
21 Jan 2007
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This was my first encounter with the great Tim Hardin. I first bought this album on vinyl...mono to be exact, from a cutout bin for 99 cents sometime around 1972 or 73. I don't remember what attracted me to this album, I had never heard of Tim Hardin even though I had heard some of his songs...the Bobby Darin hits, "If I Were a Carpenter" and "The Lady Came From Baltimore" and the Rod Stewart cover of "Reason to Believe". It would be several years before I connected the writer of those songs to the one man band on "This is Tim Hardin". I started playing this album and I remember thinking that I had never heard anything close to this before. At that time I really had no idea of serious blues beyond groups like John Mayhall, Cream, Yardbirds, The Stones,...that kind of blues. This album blew me away as well as everyone I played it for. "This is Tim Hardin" remained at the front of my record collection for years. Eventually I discovered a Tim Hardin anthology album and learned more about his tragic life and heard the true versions of "Reason to Believe" and "If I Were a Carpenter" along with classics like "Black Sheep Boy", "It'll Never Happen Again", and "Don't Make Promises". The songs on this CD are different than those later songs, they are more haunting, gutsy, raw, and real. It sounds like it was recorded in a bar, late at night after everyone has gone home. It takes a few listens to even realize that there is no band, no rhythm section, no backup singers...nothing but Tim on the guitar and his foot on the stage floor for rhythm and lyrics that will stay with you for the rest of your life. You will never hear "House of the Rising Sun" the same way again.
It took me several tries to get this CD from Amazon. It finally came from one of their secondary sellers I believe. No matter I finally got it and it is well worth the wait. Believe it or not I miss the scratches and pops from the old vinyl record I lived with for so many years. They just seem to fit the mood of this recording.
It took me several tries to get this CD from Amazon. It finally came from one of their secondary sellers I believe. No matter I finally got it and it is well worth the wait. Believe it or not I miss the scratches and pops from the old vinyl record I lived with for so many years. They just seem to fit the mood of this recording.
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