Tim Hardin - Suite For Susan Moore and Damian: We Are One, One, All In One '1969

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Hardins first album for Columbia was a darker, more subdued, and altogether
stranger affair than the relatively accessible material he had recorded for
Verve just two or three years previously. Even at the peak of his popularity,
Hardin was not always the most straightforward of songwriters, and Suite for
Susan Moore took a turn toward the oblique. The songs, actually running together
into a loose suite, were divided into the mysteriously titled sections
Implication I, Implication II, Implication III, and End of Implication. Often
they sounded like an outpouring of stream-of-consciousness romantic emotions and
thoughts, rather than compositions deliberately constructed for ease of listener
comprehension. Some of the cuts had foggy, druggy textures with slow tempos,
tremeloed guitars, and watery electric keyboards; not lethargic or laid-back,
but the kind of stuff youre always tempted to boost the volume on to make it
easier to grasp. Even the folkier and more upbeat tunes had a casual and
distended air; Hardin added to the strangeness by occasionally reciting somber
poetry, both unaccompanied and to meandering, jazzy instrumental backing. The
drowsy mood, both affectionate and vulnerable, is more important than the
message on this haunting album. That means its not recommended as the first
Hardin recording for neophytes, but it is recommended to those who already like
Hardin and are up for something more obtuse than his early records. ~ Richie
Unterberger

Tracklist:
 01. Tim Hardin - First Love Song (04:25)
 02. Tim Hardin - Everything Good Become More True (03:50)
 03. Tim Hardin - Question of Birth (03:33)
 04. Tim Hardin - Once-Touched by Flame (02:53)
 05. Tim Hardin - Last Sweet Moments (06:07)
 06. Tim Hardin - Magician (03:39)
 07. Tim Hardin - Loneliness She Knows (03:14)
 08. Tim Hardin - The Country Im Living In (04:11)
 09. Tim Hardin - One, One the Perfect Sum (09:53)
 10. Tim Hardin - Susan (00:38)

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