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Artist
TD Lind
12+ albums
singer-songwriterAlt-countryamericanafolkindie folk
about
What an Englishman was doing living in the Highlands of Louisville, Kentucky is really anyone’s guess but he knew he was pursuing an inescapable dream to become a singer and a songwriter. This dream had moved him away from 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 Arthur’s 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. First one record deal from Imago/RCA was offered, signed, then ended when the company lost it’s funding and folded, then another from the mighty A&M Records, who flew all their senior executives to Louisville and signed him on the spot. An amazing album was made, an eighteen month promotional tour undertaken, radio, press, festivals and the offer of The Late Show, when sadly and rather crushingly a Canadian whiskey company bought Polygram and folded A&M into it, and so for the second time and through no fault of his own, he had no way to release his music. Still 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 Cochran’s America, performing in front of
