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Reason to Believe (The Best Of) [Import]

~ Tim Hardin
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  • Audio CD (25 Oct 1990)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Polydor
  • ASIN: B000001FNP
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 86,643 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Reason to Believe
2. How Can We Hang on to a Dream
3. It'll Never Happen Again
4. Misty Roses
5. Speak Like a Child
6. Don't Make Promises
7. If I Were a Carpenter
8. Red Balloon
9. Black Sheep Boy
10. Green Rocky Road
11. How Long
12. You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie
13. Tribute to Hank Williams
14. Smugglin' Man
15. Lady Came from Baltimore

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5.0 out of 5 stars THE ABSOLUTE BEST...AND NOTHING BUT!, 7 Nov 2002
By Lawyeraau (Balmoral Castle) - See all my reviews
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In the late sixties, early seventies, I had a Tim Hardin LP album that I played to death. It was my all time favorite LP. As technological advances were made and CDs came to the fore, it was consigned to a box with all my other LP albums. I was, therefore, thrilled to find this CD with all my Tim Hardin favorites. I was not disappointed by it. It is, without a doubt, my favorite CD.

Tim Hardin was a very gifted musician, singer, and songwriter. His music is a celebration of the human spirit which is ironic, considering that his own life ended so tragically from a drug over dose. His songs often sung by others, Tim Hardin did it best. A cornucopia of emotion and sound, there is not a bad song on this entire CD. It is quintessential Tim Hardin.

While some purists may object to the new orchestral arrangement on this CD, it only enhances already great music. What makes it unique is Tim Hardin himself, a truly gifted artist with no equal. A folksinger who shaded his music with blues and jazz overtones, Tim Hardin sang with a poignancy that will touch your heart. At times romantic and lyrical, other times positively soulful, Tim Hardin was an original.

When he sang his music, Tim Hardin spoke to your very soul. It is this quality, and not the musical arrangement, that makes his music transcend the passage of time. This is a truly great CD.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Smoky folk, 23 Jul 2007
By Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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Although he was an influential personality on the 1960s folk circuit, Hardin had little success as a recording artist. He's better known as a songwriter since other artists had hits with many of his compositions.

In 1962 he recorded This Is Tim Hardin, which established his style: folk with a strong jazz and blues influence. A term like smoky folk comes to mind, a bit like the UK artist Nick Drake.

His third album, the classic Tim Hardin 2 included the powerful and evocative track Reason To Believe that, as double A Side with Maggie May, toped the British and American charts for Rod Stewart in 1971.

The folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary also recorded this song. The other classic on the album, If I Were A Carpenter, was a top ten hit for Bobby Darin. Incidentally Hardin's only hit single was a Darin composition Sing A Simple Song Of Freedom (1969).

If I Were A Carpenter was revived by The Four Tops in 1968 and by Johnny Cash and June Carter in 1970. Other artists who had hits with Hardin's songs include Johnny Mathis (Misty Roses), Scott Walker (Black Sheep Boy) and The Nice (Hang On To A Dream).

On December 29, 1980, during the recording sessions of his final work, he died of an overdose. Hardin was 39 years old and had survived his one-time contemporaries Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix by a decade.

Besides the aforementioned songs, my other favorite includes the beautiful Red Balloon. My only complaint with this compilation is that it omits Hardin's exquisite interpretation of Leonard Cohen's Bird on a Wire.

There is great beauty in Hardin's subtle but expressive vocal style. Like Nick Drake, he remains an obscure singer-songwriter with roots in the 1960s, who is well worth investigating if you like authentic, moving music.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Black Sheep Boy , 3 Oct 2008
By G. E. Harrison (Cheltenham) - See all my reviews
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In the late 60s "If I Were a Carpenter" was done by everybody from Bobby Darin and the Four Tops to every third-rate cabaret singer on every crappy TV variety show, I got to really hate the song! Therefore I was amazed that when I heard the original by Tim Hardin I thought that his version was so good, so understated and so lacking in the showbiz gloss that the other versions were full of. I immediately went out and got this 'Best of' to hear some of his other songs. And what other songs! "Reason to Believe", "How Can We Hang on to a Dream", "Don't Make Promises", "Black Sheep Boy", "Lady Came from Baltimore" the list goes on and on, all of them bittersweet classics.
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