Ted Hawkins was a well-known and much appreciated busker on Venice Beach, California, in the early 1980s.
He was variously ‘discovered’ four times, and many of his songs recorded. This is one of a pair of albums.
In 1986 he traveled to the UK for a short tour, and ended up living in coastal East Yorkshire (I’m from nearby Beverley, although I was living in Lancashire since 1980).
He was sent back to the USA when his over-stay was uncovered.
He died suddenly on New Year’s Day 1995.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Hawkins
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/77298/ted-hawkins-early-fave-sees-daylight
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/suffer_no_more_the_tragic_life_of_singer-songwriter_ted_hawkins
https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Ted_Hawkins
https://web.archive.org/web/20091228200339/http://the-bunker.org/ted/ted.html
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