TD Lind.

[trent]

Has anyone else seen this video on

Fantastic and what a great song most original thing I've heard for ages, does anyone know anything about him. I heard some more songs on his Myspace and they're really good to.

[DudeAsInCool]

Good find, Trent. Interesting bio, too.

Here is his page at MySpace - definitely worth a listen, he's an original :)

What an Englishman was doing living in the Highlands of Louisville, Kentucky is really anyones guess but he knew he was pursuing an inescapable dream to become a singer and a songwriter. This dream had moved him away from his farmhouse home and into a rock n roll band that travelled across Britain playing bars and pubs, it had put him into small night clubs in London and had him playing Jazz piano in the Duc De Lombard over a winter in Paris. Then somewhere between him singing blues nightly at Arthurs Tavern across from his room on Christopher Street in New York, a cab ride that took him to New Orleans, and making coffee for sessions at Ocean Way studios in Los Angeles he found four great musicians, formed a band, and made Kentucky home. Playing songs from St. Louis to Huntington, from Chicago to Memphis, T.D. Lind was living out the best bits of Kerouac, exploring the promises of Eddie Cochrans America, performing in front of thousands, driving a 56 Buick Special, playing a 6120 Gretsch guitar, not escaping the dream. After such extraordinary experiences, after some moments of great personal triumph as a musician in his own right signed to A&M Records, as a collaborator with Sony, Capital and Sanctuary Records artists, film scorer for Goldcrest, Paramount, as an influence and light in peoples lives he was one day back in a room in Louisville, Kentucky when he pulled out a 4-track Tascam cassette recorder and decided to record in song his adventures. These songs were unlike anything he had previously written or sung.

And having put those songs down T.D. Lind came home to England.

A copy of that cassette fell into the hands of record producer Rupert Hine. It took a little time, and a little luck, but T.D. Lind and Rupert Hine finally met up in London at one of his local gigs. During the Chinese meal that ensued they agreed to meet in Los Angeles the following month to make a groundbreaking record. They spent the next eight months making a record so personal and so magical that it is close to overwhelming.

From the small clubs of Europe to the lost towns of the Mid-West of America, T.D. Lind has lived an extraordinary life. These are the songs that lay bare the experiences of a great musician.