Nick Drake

Van Morrison's Astral Weeks has come to signify a soulful impressionism that wells up from
sources Wordsworth deemed "too deep for tears." Every note Nick Drake recorded before
his accidental overdose in 1974 throbs with similar aching beauty. Morning-glory vocals,
couplets of such Elizabethan elegance as "Open up the broken cup/Let goodly sin and
sunshine in" and arrangements that wed jazz freedom to the dignity of string qua... More >