Tim Hardin

Tim Hardin is one of those songwriters whose influence dwarfs his fame. A folk and blues talent from Eugene, Oregon, he wrote If I Were a Carpenter and Reason to Believe, songs that became hits in other artists' hands long before many listeners knew his name. There is a fragile honesty in his music that I find deeply moving, the sense of a man laying his vulnerability bare in melody. His death at just thirty-nine feels like a wound on American songcraft. To me he is the quiet genius whose songs outlived the troubled life that made them.

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Name (English)

Tim Hardin

Name (Japanese)

ティム・ハーディン

Reading

てぃむ・はーでぃん

Born

December 23, 1941 – December 29, 1980

Origin

Eugene, Oregon, United States

Occupation

singer-songwriter / singer / composer / pianist / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Snake

High school

South Eugene High School

• Official sitehttp://www.mathie.demon.co.uk/th/index.html
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Hardin
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q711806

Tags

• Oregon
• singer-songwriter
• singer
• composer

Last updated

September 28, 2026

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