Tim Hanauer
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Songwriter |
| Location | Fort Collins, CO |
| Introduction | It's a long story, more fit for a novel than a paragraph. The short of it is that I've been writing songs since the day I received my first guitar. I was always fascinated with music, always wanted to be one of those people who could play music. Since the moment I got my first guitar I couldn't put it down. It was May of 1996, the month I graduated from high school. I wrote constantly. I spent most of my life at that point in the basement. I would record into this old RCA boom box through its built-in microphone. I must have fifty cassette tapes in a box in the garage. From there, I moved to the four track. My recordings improved with the quality of my songs. I can't tell you how many songs I've written to date. I'd like to know. I'd guess it's somewhere around 200. In 2004, I began tracking my first real studio record. I'd tried and failed to make it happen for years. The whole thing fell together nicely with the right people around. The record, Boomerang, was released in December 2005. For the first time, I was getting airplay in states other than my own. I started work on my follow up record, Time for Change, in the fall of 2007. It was released January 12, 2009. |
| Interests | Climbing trees |
| Favorite movies | Ghandi, The Princes Bride, Stranger than Fiction, La Vie en Rose, Garden State, Benny and Joon, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, My Girl, City of God, Freedom Writers, Mansfield Park, The Holiday, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Greatest Game Ever Played, Maria Full of Grace, Bend it Like Beckham, I am trying to break your heart, The World's Fastest Indian, Mrs. Doubtfire, Harold and Maud, |
| Favorite music | The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Amos Lee, Wilco, Josh Rouse, Andrew Bird, Ray LaMontagne, Al Green, Van Morrison, Derik and the Dominos, The Kinks, Keane, Ben Harper, Ben Kweller, Cat Stevens, Coldplay, David Gray, John Legend, Jeff Buckley, Feist, Jamie Lidell, Led Zeppelin, M Ward, Pete Yorn, Pink Floyd |
| Favorite books | Dictionaries, Thesauri, The Sun Also Rises, A Moveable Feast, The Nick Adams Stories, Art of Drowning, Picnic Lightening, Nine Horse, Questions about Angels, On the Road, The Heart of Darkness, The Great Gatsby, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1984, The Alchemist, Moby Dick, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, We, Jonathan Livingston Seagull. |