Bob Lind

Singer and songwriter Bob Lind has enjoyed a sizable following based on a rather small body of work. He released just four albums between 1966 and 1971, and landed only one single in the Top 40, but he's acknowledged as a key artist in the '60s folk-rock boom. "Elusive Butterfly" was a breezy number that nodded to psychedelia and sunshine pop, and his early material (as collected on The Best of Bob Lind: You Might Have Heard My Footsteps) is carefully crafted folk-rock with a pop sensibility. When Lind returned to music with 2012's Finding You Again, he'd added Baroque accents to his arrangements (created by Jamie Hoover of the Spongetones). A darker and more cynical lyrical outlook dominated 2016's Magellan Was Wrong and 2022's Something Worse Than Loneliness. 2026's It Oughta Be Easy offered more philosophical musings and mature, piano-centered pop melodies.