Tim Rose On the Web

Although this was the original Tim Rose Website, Tim also has an official one. Acknowledging that I didn't have the time to keep things fully up-to-date, he arranged for a formal website to be set up and run by a professional web designer. You can find that site at www.timrose.net where you'll get all the current information and you can even buy CDs there!

The unofficial website that you are now reading has been on the go since around 1997. Every so often, I would get an e-mail or a phone call from Tim, asking me to add a fresh piece of information - a tour date or an update on a CD release. Sometimes, I was a little slow in making changes to the website. I would use the excuse that I have a family and a full time job and that these things have to come first. Tim would be very patient, but one time early in 2002, when I said that I was writing a major upgrade to the whole website - which features five artists, not just Tim - he made the point (referring to Tim Hardin and David Ackles) that I should concentrate on the living, not the dead. Well, guess what, I plan to continue to ignore that instruction, now that Tim has joined the other two. This site will continue.

As well as being mentioned by a number of businesses that are involved in selling second hand albums and by some people who have listed their entire record collection on their website, Tim gets a mention during an interview with Bonnie Dobson, co-composer of Morning Dew. That interview is available on the following URL:

http://www.taco.com/roots/dobsoninterview.html

Any information on further sightings would be appreciated.

If you are looking to obtain any albums by Tim, you might try your local record store for the two double albums that have been re-released, or for American Son, his latest album. You might also manage to find his previous CD, Haunted, which has been re-launched with another distributor. Again, these are all available from Tim's Official Website. You can also get Mark Brend's excellent book, American Troubadours there, autographed by Tim.

Alternatively, www.magpiedirect.com and http://www.blahdvd.com have good websites and are reliable retailers with an interest in older material. Other retailers that might help are www.hmv.co.uk, www.101cd.com and www.towerrecords.co.uk while if you are looking for a non-UK site, try www.cdwow.com, www.cdnow.com or even www.amazon.com as the biggest retailers. Stuart Lord has access to specialist items and can send you a list if you e-mail him at stuart.lord@wanadoo.fr.

For second hand albums (vinyl and CD), many people have managed to get lucky by bidding on www.ebay.com while the biggest collective of second hand dealers is www.gemm.com but I would also try: