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A nearly forgotten singer/songwriter of the '60s, Tim Rose's early work bore a strong resemblance to another Tim working in Greenwich Village around 1966-1967 -- <a href="spotify:artist:39GVRVaqlKh7JL8Yl5ZKcb">Tim Hardin</a>. Rose also favored a throaty blues folk-rock style with pop production flourishes, though he looked to outside material more, wasn't quite in <a href="spotify:artist:39GVRVaqlKh7JL8Yl5ZKcb">Hardin</a>'s league as a singer or songwriter, and had a much harsher, even gravelly vocal tone. Before beginning a solo career, Rose had sung with <a href="spotify:artist:5jX7X3kRkfJTRqAdT7RcHk">Cass Elliott</a> in the folk trio <a href="spotify:artist:7EPI9RLrU6kU6ZQLTqB7wY">the Big Three</a> a few years before she joined <a href="spotify:artist:1bs7HoMkSyQwcobCpE9KpN">the Mamas and the Papas</a>. Signed by Columbia in 1966, his 1967 debut album (which actually included a few previously released singles) is considered by far his most significant work. Two of the tracks were particularly noteworthy: his slow arrangement of "Hey Joe" inspired <a href="spotify:artist:776Uo845nYHJpNaStv1Ds4">Jimi Hendrix</a>'s version and "Morning Dew," Rose's best original composition, became something of a standard, covered by <a href="spotify:artist:0AD4odMWVQ2wUSlgxOB5Rl">the Jeff Beck Group</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4TMHGUX5WI7OOm53PqSDAT">the Grateful Dead</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0BkAYxgwF9VQiid4wI07yJ">Clannad</a>, and others. Years later, though, it was debated as to whether Rose wrote the song, or whether folksinger <a href="spotify:artist:62dp4ukQTgdD8vhPD2gb67">Bonnie Dobson</a> penned the original version. Some non-LP singles he recorded around this time have unfortunately never been reissued, and although he made several other albums up through the mid-'70s, none matched the acclaim of the first one. An influence on Nick Cave and others, Rose died on September 24, 2002. A posthumous album called Snowed In, which contains material Rose was working on in the last year of his life, was released in 2003 by Cherry Red Records. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi
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