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Tim Hardin on Songwriting

Paul Nelson, Circus, May 1969

ON THE eve of his first Columbia album, Suite for Susan Moore and Damion — We Are One, One, All in One, Tim Hardin talked with me at length about his own songs ('If I Were a Carpenter', 'Lady Came from Baltimore', 'Black Sheep Boy'), songwriting (how he does it), and songwriters (Leonard Cohen, Phil Ochs).

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