Ahhh . . . a chance to wax on the wonderful work of Nick Drake. None captures
the twisted personal beauty of despair quite like him. You can truly hear him
sinking into the end of his life on record.
You can't go wrong with any of the discs. The compilation, "Way to Blue", is a
great and representative sampling. The other extreme is just to buy the box set
of 4 CDs . . . almost every track is great. The individual albums rank like this
for me:
Five Leaves Left - gorgeous stuff, a real competitor of "Astral Weeks"
Bryter Layter - a more English folk-rock feel, great if you are a Fairport
Convention et al. fan (some of those musicians appear)
Pink Moon - wacked-out, sometimes abstract, largely solo, a great but somewhat
slight record
By the way, I'm fairly thumbs-down on the Kelly Willis cover. She's a little too
sweet for the song. "A troubled cure/ for a troubled mind" just doesn't sit
right unless sung by the spooked Mr. Drake. "Cradle of Love" is much better for
her approach.
JJM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: passenger side <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, April 02, 1999 3:38 PM
Subject: Drake (Re: Kelly Willis calling the shots)
>Soron writes:
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><< As a minor Drake fan(atic), >>
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>Which reminds me, any minor or major Drake fan want to offer up a good
>starting point into that artist's catalog? I need to go buy yet another CD
>that I've never gonna have enough time to appreciate to its fullest. Sigh...
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>Neal Weiss
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