I agree that Tim Hardin toured the UK extensively, and even lived (and recorded) here for a while. However, the argument above re. "but was he folk?" seems to have moved off of him him and was going back to the same old same old that some people can never seem to reconcile. And these arguments have become tiresome, to me at least.

If a discussion should come up here about, say, any other non-British singer-songwriter who toured the UK, are we going to have to go through the same "debate"? TH has been dead for 27 years now, yet he's apparently still a conduit for worn-out discussions.

Maybe TH's post-humous influence on later writers/performers is greater than I appreciate. I'll avoid using the word "folk" and stick to "acoustic" to describe him, but you can hear his sparse echo in so many others' work - Ron Sexsmith, for one example.