35 – Way To Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake

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🗓️ 24 November 2015

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Nick Drake was a British singer songwriter from the early 1970s. His music has attracted a passionate, loyal following and influenced countless musicians. He’s often called a musician’s musician. But during his brief musical career he had little commercial success. Shy and private, Nick was never great on stage – but his guitar playing was brilliant and his songs were beautiful, melancholy, compelling. For years, he suffered from serious depression, and on November 25, 1974 he overdosed on anti-depressants. Thirty years after his death, Drake’s producer, Joe Boyd, gathered a group of musicians to pay tribute to Drake in a series of concerts and an accompanying record. In this episode of Fugitive Waves we go behind the scenes, into rehearsals, sound checks, and the making of Way to Blue: the Songs of Nick Drake.

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1:28.0	FM slash donate. In this episode of Fugitive Waves we go behind the scenes into rehearsals and sound checks documenting the making of the album
1:45.1	Way to Blue, the songs of Nick Drake.
1:49.1	Nick Drake was a British singer-songwriter from the early 1970s. His music has attracted a passionate
1:54.7	loyal following and influenced countless musicians. He's often called a
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