With a voice as raw as Bob Dylan's, singer/songwriter Tim Hardin wrote songs with remarkable empathy, grace, and honesty. He sang mournfully about heroin addiction and being a disgraced kid in the mid-'60s, and by the '70s at least half a dozen of his folk-pop classics had become standards. Hardin's recordings never had much commercial success, but artists like Rod Stewart, Johnny Cash, Bobby Darin, and countless others had hits with versions of his tunes that often masked their deeper sadness. After nearly a dozen albums, Hardin died of drug overdose in 1980.