Simple Songs of Freedom: The Tim Hardin Collection

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Simple Songs of Freedom: The Tim Hardin Collection
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Compilation album by Tim Hardin
Released September 3, 1996
Recorded 1968-1972
Genre Folk
Length66:17
Label Columbia/Legacy
Tim Hardin chronology
Hang on to a Dream: The Verve Recordings
(1994)		Simple Songs of Freedom: The Tim Hardin Collection
(1996)

Simple Songs of Freedom: The Tim Hardin Collection is a compilation album by folk artist Tim Hardin, released in 1996. It includes selections from his three Columbia albums and five previously unreleased tracks.

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 1⁄3 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

Folk music musical and poetic creativity of the people

Folk music includes traditional folk music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that.

Tim Hardin American musician

James Timothy Hardin was an American folk musician and composer. He wrote the Top 40 hit "If I Were a Carpenter", covered by, among others, Bobby Darin, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, The Four Tops, Robert Plant, Small Faces, Johnny Rivers, and Bert Jansch; his song "Reason to Believe" has also been covered by many artists, notably Rod Stewart, Neil Young, and The Carpenters. Hardin is also known for his own recording career.

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Reception

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In his review for Allmusic, music critic Richie Unterberger wrote "Although his best work was behind him, he was still capable of recording good material... Simple Songs is the one album of post-Verve Hardin music to own." [1]

Richie Unterberger American writer

Richie Unterberger is an American author and journalist whose focus is popular music and travel writing.

Track listing

All songs by Tim Hardin unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Simple Song of Freedom" (Bobby Darin) (3:51)
  2. "Shiloh Town" (3:09) *
  3. "Turn the Page" (2:57) *
  4. "Playing Cards/The Magician" (2:42) *
  5. "First Love Song" (4:23) * *
  6. "Last Sweet Moments" (6:07) * *
  7. "If I Knew" (3:51)
  8. "Hoboin'" (John Lee Hooker, Joe Josea) (3:25)
  9. "André Johray" (2:48)
  10. "Southern Butterfly" (2:49)
  11. "Bird on a Wire" (Leonard Cohen) (5:26)
  12. "Midnight Caller" (Pete Ham) (3:06)
  13. "Yankee Lady" (Jesse Winchester) (4:24)
  14. "Till We Meet Again" (Neil Sheppard) (3:10)
  15. "I'll Be Home" (Randy Newman) (5:39)
  16. "If I Knew" (4:37) * *
  17. "Thanks to Gideon" (3:53)

*Previously unreleased tracks

**Live tracks

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Unterberger, Richie. "Simple Songs of Freedom: The Tim Hardin Collection > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved June 22, 2011.
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