Tiny Legs Tim (1978-2022) was a finger-picking virtuoso, a talented slide guitarist, and a solid rock lyricist. His strong feel for melody and clarity along with his eclectic love for blues & roots music, have resulted in a rich and authentic variety of compositions and songs. Tiny legs Tim was continuously perfecting his skills as a songwriter and kept on widening his musical scope. This is beautifully illustrated throughout the seven highly acclaimed albums that he released between 2012 and 2022. He became the voice of an entirely new blues generation. Some of them joined him here in the Missy Sippy in Ghent, a centre of his activities.
To mark the club's fifth anniversary, Tim created an album called Missy Sippy All Stars Volume 1 in March 2020, recorded with some 20 promising musicians. He released all his records in-house to maintain full control over his own musical identity. To achieve this, he established his proper record label in 2015 which he named Sing My Title.
The label released albums by local blues & roots musicians such as Kaai Man, Paul Couter, Steven Troch, Little Jimmy and the band A Murder in Mississippi.
His unique style did not go unnoticed. VRT Radio 1 invited him for the
On the day of his passing, VRT News shared the heartbreaking news on its website, which you can view here. Additionally, his appearance on The Seventh Day, featuring a live performance of Love Come Knocking from the album Call Us When It's Over, is also available to watch.
On 28th November 2023, the day that would have marked the 45th birthday of the beloved artist, his friends and family released one last album. In addition to being an anagram of his stage name and the name of his self-created label, Sing My Title is also a nod to the ‘good news’ of the gospel, and a warm and open invitation: sing my title, play my music, listen to my music.
Together with the release of the album Sing My Title with fifteen new and unreleased songs, they organised a tribute concert at the concert hall 'Ha concerts' in Ghent, the city where he worked, loved and lived.
