Deborah Pardes Live In Concert CD

The early move left Din with migratory tendencies, and he's rambled: to Romania, Andalucia, Ireland, Mali, and around north America.

Identifying strongly with itinerant songwriters like Woody Guthrie, Charley Patton, and Jimmy Rodgers, he dropped out of college at 19 and began composing songs, playing them in bars and on street corners.

Says Din of his inspiration to pursue music, "I discovered a battered tune lying next to a crushed guitar in the old Maxwell Street Market of Chicago. I took it home; it sang to me."Squatting in Philadelphia with fellow anarchists in the early 1990's, Din formed the revivalist indie folk act the National Wrecking Company. Experimenting with thematic content, rhythm and chord structure, and known to play four hour shows, the National Wrecking Company was, according to one effusive reviewer, "the best house band since Elvis played Vegas."When they disbanded, Din hit the road, staying for a time in Vinalhaven, an island off the coast of Maine, and eventually settling on the lower east side of Manhattan, where he was spotted by Rolling Stone producer Andrew Loog Oldham. The resultant collaboration with Magic Shop studio producer/owner Steve Rosenthal produced an album's worth of never-released material.