While not a Colorado native, Robert Neale Lind called the state home.
Lind was born November 25, 1944 in Baltimore Maryland. He attended high school in Aurora, Colorado where he formed his first band: The Moonlighters. After graduating, he enrolled at Western State College in Gunnison, where he focused on playing guitar to the exclusion of academics. During this time, Lind led a rock cover band known as Bob Lind & The Misfits. He dropped out of college and moved to Denver, where he became immersed in the folk music scene and took coffeehouses such as The Exodus, The Green Spider and The Analyst by storm.