Tim Rose

Tim Rose ( born September 23, 1940 in Washington, DC, † 24 September 2002 in London ) was an American folk-rock singer. As his biggest hit applies the title Morning Dew, although he has not strictly written him, with him also could not achieve placement in the charts.

Biography and musical career

Tim Rose turned the music business after an aborted training as a priest and his military service at the beginning of the 1960s. He made his first recording with the group The smoothies, among other things, to the John Philip (later of The Mamas & the Papas ) and Scott McKenzie belonged, with the San Francisco sang the anthem of the Flower Power movement in 1967. With Michael Boran, who also belonged to this group, he made for a short time the duo " Michael and Timothy ." The first professional collaboration resulted with Cass Elliot - which later became known as a member of The Mamas & the Papas, and James Hendricks in the group " The Big 3", each recorded the 1963 and 1964 LP. Rose isolated from the two when he learned that she had married without his knowledge.

The mid-1960s began the career of Tim Rose as a solo musician. In 1966 he released his first LP Tim Rose. His music was a mix of blues, folk and rock. Two tracks are particularly worth mentioning, on the one hand his version of Hey Joe by April 1966, which influenced the short time thereafter much more successful interpretation by Jimi Hendrix tempo-wise, on the other hand the title Morning Dew, the apocalyptic vision of Earth after a nuclear disaster.

The following albums by Tim Rose filed, both the assessment and what the response was concerned by the criticism from the public, no longer to his debut zoom. His 1977 finished recorded LP The Gambler was initially not released by his record company ( until 1991 ). Rose, who had spent the 1970s some time in England, returned back to the U.S. and turned largely on the music business, took a job in various industries, entered into a marriage, which was childless and was eventually divorced, and had a long time massive alcohol problems. In the 90s he got his life back together and it started a second phase of musical creativity and partly public recognition. His first major concert, among others, at London's Royal Albert Hall, went in 1996 on the initiative of Nick Cave, appeared in 1997 with a new album Haunted. His last years he brought mainly in England and Norway, where he among other things, 2001 at the Jazz and Blues Festival occurred in Bergen and 2002 on an album the group participated Headwaiter.

Tim Rose died on 24 September 2002, immediately after his 62nd birthday in a London hospital from the effects of cancer surgery. His last album, Snowed In 2003 was published posthumously.

Morning Dew

Often Rose is listed as the sole author of this title, but it is not to be denied that he has incurred the 1960 song Take Me For A Walk ( In The Morning Dew ) of the Canadian folk singer Bonnie Dobson picked up and reinterpreted. His more substantial changes are on the one in the musical arrangement - from the accompanied only by an acoustic guitar ballad was a rock song - and on the other in a change of the text that equipped the obvious statement of the original with a certain ambivalence, as if in it only indicated disaster could have occurred also at the relationship level. Unless one does not join to the view expressed by Dobson in an interview that Rose has her song only gecovert without having achieved a significant own contribution, it seems to be the most accurate reading, to consider both as authors of Morning Dew. Undeniably, though, is that after the publication of Roses version a significant number of other cover versions were recorded, among others, Lulu, The Grateful Dead, Episode Six, the Jeff Beck Group ( with vocals by Rod Stewart ), Nazareth or Clannad; subsequent photographs were taken by Long John Baldry, Einstürzende Neubauten and Robert Plant, appeared on his album Dreamland the title in Tim Roses death in 2002.

Discography

Listed are only solo albums by Tim Rose.

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