“Let’s call it one of life’s little ironies: This year Tim Blane, a Boston singer-songwriter who has been working the local and national club circuit for the better part of the decade, will arrive in the homes of roughly 10 million people, strumming his guitar and playing the piano – but none of them will know it’s him,” Joan Anderman reports for The Boston Globe. “That’s because Blane was hired by Apple to be the teacher for its new Basic Lessons series of instrument instruction that comes bundled with the popular GarageBand software on Mac computers. (He’s in good company; Sting, Colbie Caillat, Fall Out Boy, Sarah McLaughlin, Ben Folds, John Fogerty, OneRepublic, and Norah Jones round out the GarageBand faculty.)”
“‘Hi, I’m Tim,’ Blane says at the start of each lesson. No last name. No clue that he’s got a life beyond tuning and finger positions. No mention of his albums or his tour schedule, which includes a show at Copperfields on Saturday,” Anderman reports. “At least Blane is getting some press out of the Apple gig; he was immortalized in a recent issue of USA Today as ‘a guy named Tim.'”
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