Nick Drake’s music first came to me many years ago, at the height of Napster era, during what was personally a weepy time. I was pointed in his direction by my friend F, who told me to check the man out – this after I had mentioned a song I had <a href=www.youtube.com>heard in a Volvo ad. What I really like about Drake’s music is the way orchestral arrangements heighten the simple (thus extremely potent) acoustic line of his songs, and how it makes you want to go off on Drake-ish tangents of your own; “San Francisco Blues” I wrote earlier today is one example. Here is what I found of Drake’s music on YouTube:

As the voice-over on that documentary clip says, if I meet a girl who takes me to her room, and I find Nick Drake's records in it, well, I too would marry her.

Nick Drake lives. :)