Bob Lind Loser

Recorded with a truly stellar cats of helping hands including Carol Kaye on bass, Doug Dillard on banjo, Gene Clarke on harmonica and Bernie Leadon on lead guitar, Bob Lind's enigmatic 1971 LP SINCE THERE WERE CIRCLES remains his finest moments and is still a remarkably unsung record by an artist best remembered for his schmaltzy smash hit of five years earlier - Elusive Butterfly.
Robert Neale Lind was born in Baltimore, Maryland on November 25, 1944. His family moved a great deal when he was young, but as a teenager he settled in Denver, Colorado, and began singing rock & roll and R&B when he was in eighth grade. In high school, Lind formed a band called the Moonlighters, and while attending Western State University in Gunnison, Colorado, he led a rock group, Bob Lind & the Misfits, specializing in early rock covers.
As a new breed of songwriters emerged on the folk music scene in the early '60s, Lind took up songwriting and started playing occasional shows at local coffee houses. He relocated to San Francisco, where he continued writing songs and playing small venues, and in 1965, he headed south to Los Angeles, where he scored an audition with World Pacific Records, a subsidiary of Liberty Records. World Pacific signed Lind to a record contract, and after he landed a publishing deal with Metric Music, he was introduced to producer and arranger Jack Nitzsche, who liked Lind's songs and agreed to work with him.
Four LPs followed, of which this is the last, recorded after he'd severed ties with World Pacific and been picked up by Capitol.
Having acquired a reputation for being 'difficult', perhaps as a result of his drink and drug enthusiasms, Lind found the industry largely unresponsive to his masterpiece and he left the business for many years, moving into writing instead.
Loser is an achingly lovely, louche, booze-soaked piece of ragged country rock and it slays me every time.
Hope it hits you hard too.

[@terenceboris851]

awesome album

[@captainsoul1953]

love this album

[@genelind753]

You are making fun of my grandfather

[@jakartajive]

In what possible way am I making fun? I LOVE this song, this LP and much of Bob Lind's work.

[@genelind753]

It was not you who it's just my grandpa died of cancer and I never got to remember him

[@geocs5895]

??? Bob Lind is still very much alive, and still making great music! Different Bob Lind, maybe?