Tim Scott

Tim Scott McConnell, born in 1958, started touring at 15, and in 1982, going by Tim Scott, he signed his first record deal with Sire. "Swear" was the song from that stretch that traveled furthest: Sheena Easton picked it up for her 1984 album A Private Heaven. He moved over to Geffen for High Lonesome Sound in 1985, a title that tells you where his heart was pointed, somewhere far from the synthesizers of the day and close to the blues.

He then fronted the Havalinas, a band based in Los Angeles that left behind one studio album, The Havalinas, and a live record, Go North, before it broke up. McConnell has only ever sung songs he wrote himself, and one of them went a very long way: Bruce Springsteen cut "High Hopes" for the Blood Brother EP in 1996, put it out as a single late in 2013 and made it the title of his 2014 album.

Since 2007 he has worked under the name Ledfoot, a singer working the blues on a 12-string guitar and touring Europe. Ronni Le Tekrø, the guitarist of the Norwegian hard rock band TNT, became a close musical partner, a bond that produced the duo album A Death Divine in 2020, and Norway's Spellemannprisen for blues went to him in 2019 and again in 2022.

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