Tim is one of the best singers that I've ever heard live.... I lent him a guitar once for a gig that he was playing in Montreal. He was riding light across the border so he showed up with no instrument. I brought a Gibson flat-top along which he liked... but complained that I didn't use metal fingerpicks and that it was becoming a dying art for the guitar.... anyhow, he played solo, did a few songs on an upright piano as well.... now the interesting thing is, he had a lot of verses to his songs that were never recorded.... he did a 20 min. version of 'Carpenter' with all these fine verses that nobody had heard... maybe he made some up on the spot... but he was that kind of artist.. and incidentally, he wasn't high on anything or junked out at this time.... I kept his set list that he taped to the 6-string as a souvenir for awhile.... plus all the little dings that he put on the surface with that thumbpick..... glad he didn't have metal fingerpicks after all or there would have been a pile of splinters on that stage.... but it was special to just hang out with him backstage, listen to him warm up, he was a hard player in many ways, complicated person.... he released 'Bird on a Wire' about a year later... a beautiful effort... and as I said 'what a singer'