Tim Hardin

So I started looking around at what budget I had.

We booked a show with Jerry Jeff Walker, who was coming off a big hit with Bojangles, Melanie, who had had her first hit by that point, and Tim Harden.

Actually, Tim Harden was the headliner.

And we called it Revisiting Woodstock.

Because all three of those acts had played Woodstock.

Um, Dr. Robert from the Blow Monkeys was a massive friend, massive influence on this album because they were all sharing cassettes with each other.

So, like, Paul would introduce him to Tim Hardin, to Nick Drake.

There's a thing somewhere in this room I've seen of a Nick Drake album.

Um, and, and s- and The Free, and suddenly Paul was kinda discovering these kind of bands that were...

That's on Elektra Records.

And before that, a live recording from Tim Hardin, recorded on April the 10th, 1968, at Town Hall in New York City.

And we heard The Lady Came from Baltimore.

That's from Tim Hardin in Concert on Chronicles Records.

And before that, we heard from the wonderful Appalachian ballad singer, Addie Graham, and Omee Wise.

The story behind Omee Wise, or Naomi Wise, as she was truly known, happened in 1808.

I would do that.

I texted my mom when we were talking about Tim Harden, just being like, do you know this? And nope, she'd never heard of him.

But...

My dad has...

No particular order.

Richie Havens, Tim Hardin, Melanie, Arlo Guthrie.

Oh, You Can Get Anything You Want at Alice's Restaurant.

Joan Baez.

The explorers mentioned in the title of this song are just the starting point.

Lead singer and songwriter Sid Griffin also mentions Gram Parsons and Tim Hardin, while taking aim at the music business and government.

This song is about a search for direction and possibility.

Parsons was especially important to Griffin.

And so at the end of the night, and then I got chatting to her and I was just asking her about, and she told me it's, like, it's got this person that was, uh, like, good friends with, um, [lips smack] the, the, uh, a lot of the, kind of the star or the, uh, folk artists of the '60s.

I feel like I'm kind of going down one of these routes every week now because it was Tim Hardin the week before.

Um, but fuck it now I need to think of the name of the guy.

But anyway, um, yeah, she was, she was playing as well, and I can't remember where I was going with that story.