Nick Drake Was Magnificent.
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2022
- He is known by nearly everyone who plays acoustic guitar and writes songs. Nick Drake was an incredible songwriter who wrote 3 amazing albums. I'm reacting to River Man today. It's surprisingly more complex to play than you might think. It's beautiful. Are you a fan of Nick Drake? What's your favourite song?
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Once you discover Nick Drake you can’t imagine life without him. He truly is worth all the respect shown to him.
That’s exactly my take too. You’ve expressed it better than I could.
@@dennyking 👍
His mom has great tunes too
Yes very completely for my birthday my wife got me some Nick Drake artwork of him on brighter later in laminated album and a picture of him wrapped in a blanket holding out the flowers I mean if I could ever worship artist I always worshiped John Lennon but I worship Nick Drake in the same way he was just beyond brilliant and too good to live in this world
@@nope9698 I think Nic got a lot of his music spirituality from his mother
Never thought I would find something related to Nick Drake on your channel. Nick deserves more recognition. He was magnificent indeed.
i would like to hear a cover of riverman from justin, i think you can do it plenty justice
@@torontotonto6189 I'd love to hear so many more covers from him! Street Spirit is one example of a brilliant cover, but I'm hoping for some soft acoustic stuff like this. Would be so interesting to hear him sing with a quiet voice.
Too beautiful for this world
you’d never think an English guitarist would talk about an English guitarist?
so true!
Pink Moon is one of the most raw, intimate, and brilliant albums of all time. There's absolutely nothing else like it and nothing that can evoke the emotions that it does. Thank you for covering Nick Drake!
Time of No Reply is also brilliant.
So true.
Black Eyed Dog is his bleakest song IMO.
Pink Moon it's just a man his voice and an acoustic guitar if you play the album on your stereo and set the volume and tone it just a proper settings it almost sounds as if he's in the room playing for you, very haunting.
Pink Moon it's just a man his voice and an acoustic guitar if you play the album on your stereo and set the volume and tone to just the precise settings it almost sounds as if he's in the room playing for you, very haunting.
I don't often listen to singer songwriter acoustic types that often but on those occasions Nick Drake, Elliot Smith and Jeff Buckley are majestic.
Congrats you won a fart trumpet! Send me all your bass are belong to us
@@GizzyDillespee 😂
3 of my favourite artists
these 3 in particular are my favourites!
i love you elliot smith…
Nick Drake epitomizes the delicate, ethereal British Folk sound I adore. So happy to see you shining a light on his amazing talent.
Listen to John smith, English singer/songwriter, a little bit of a cross between nick drake and John Martyn with extraordinarily beautiful guitar playing
First Nick Drake song Iever heard was Day is Done. BANGER
English, not British.
Nick Drake was a musical genius.
Lyrics, guitar tunings/chords/rhythm/timing/fingerstyle, and his haunting melodic voice…
Definitely a one of a kind.
Thanks for acknowledging him.
I’ve been listening to Nick Drake a lot lately, there is something about his music and autumn that go so well together.
Thanks Justin.
Oh you’re so right! Perfect soundtrack to the slowest, mellow season! 🍂
I think Fall might have been his favorite season too since his songs included fallen leaves. It seemed to have matched his mood. I wish he was still here.🍁
I live in the himalayas . His music is perfect for every season here .
time for sum nick drake again
River Man is my all-time favorite song. His melody over that strange rhythmic pattern is absolutely brilliant. I love his subtle chord changes that immediately change the song's mood. The lyrics are so otherworldly, but so relatable for some reason. The string arrangement is remarkable. Very sad song, but gentle and always a journey for the ears and mind.
Such a tasteful arrangement too. Not overbearing but washes over you with just the right intensity. And those chord changes... wow!
When I was a kind Pink Moon was featured in a Volkswagen commercial. I immediately sought out his music and fell in love. Things Behind the Sun is one of my all time favorite tunes
It's my favourite tune too, I learned to play it and love singing along.
Same except I was in college!
I saw that ad in 1999. I was 14. Finally delved deeper and bought all of Nick’s music in 2003, my freshman year of college. I’ve never been the same since. I now have a tattoo of lilacs and a hummingbird with his words: Now We Rise and We are Everywhere. 💜
Had Northern Sky as our wedding song almost 20 years ago. still lusten to it with regularity.
Big fan of Nick Drake and that’s my favorite of his songs.
Nick Drake, John Martyn, Danny Thompson true legends.
Congratulations! You won John Tesh and Israel Vibrations. Good luck!
I’d love you to do a break down of Elliot Smiths songwriting & guitar work. Another genius gone too soon 👍
Yes. I'd definitely enjoy that. I have a UA-cam playist of Nck Drake songs and concerts of Elliot Smith titled Sad Haunting Sh@# that I listen to frequently
Yes can I request Waltz 2 for that episode, please?
Cannot believe you’ve given a platform to one of the UK’s most forgotten artists. Thank you, means a lot
Hardly forgotten, as he says in the video "everyone playing acoustic guitar knows him". What makes you belive that Nick Drake is forgotten?
I wouldn't say forgotten, if anything I'd say criminally underrated (less so now) as he's recently being rediscovered, which is wonderful.
Five leaves left and pink moon are two of the most important albums in my life…so hauntingly beautiful..river man was the first song I ever heard and It just made an immediate impact on my life..!!
That cut back from “Girlfriend” to Justin morosely strumming along to Nick Drake was epic
😂
Nick Drake was truly an amazing talent.
Some of the sounds of my childhood. I was very fortunate to have adults with great taste around me as I was growing up. John Martyn's track Solid Air was written for Nick Drake, another amazing piece of music.
I've become slightly addicted to Justin. I love how positive and supportive he is 🙂
John Martyn... so under-rated
John Martyn was a great artist. I saw him a few times at smallish gigs in ireland & he lived up the road from me. Unfortunately his prodigious talent was dented by alcohol consumption in latter years.
''I love how positive and supportive he is'' It's called being English lol
I’ve always loved “Bryter Layter”. The other two albums are brilliant too but it’s the one that really got under my skin when I got into him as a teenager in the 90s.
I think it's John Cale's contributions that really make that album.
The best autumnal music 💖
I’m probably not alone in having discovered Nick Drake in 1994 when the Way To Blue compilation was released. I think it was written about in the NME and I went to my local record store to buy the CD. I listened to it repeatedly and went in search of his other music. All these years later I still listen to his music regularly.
“Riverman” is my favorite Nick Drake song. It always calms me when I’m anxious. Nick was so brilliant.
A one of a kind artist. No one ever sounded like him.
Once you hear Nick Drake it gets inside your blood and never leaves!!
Agreed
I think Nick Drake changes everyone who hears him.
If only he knew
Wow, I am a new listener of Nick Drake, thanks to this UA-cam video, and am completely blown away. The talent is extraordinary. The movement of the musical lines, soulful voice, and ease of incorporating classical instruments is just beautiful!! I can't believe he passed at 26. What a loss to the world.
You’re where I was in mid 2006 (at 20yrs). It’s a one way path.
Riverman is one of my favorites by Nick Drake along with Cello Song. Such a musical genius gone much too soon.
He was such an incredible musician, so unique in his playing and feel. I've been listening to Nick Drake for years and years now, but it still moves me emotionally.
"Things behind the sun" is probably my favourite. I discovered him around 6 or 7 years ago and as a acoustic singer/songwriter he's amazing. Nick Drake is insanely underrated and honestly mostly forgotten about.
Dear Justin, in a creepy world, your channel is the best survival kit ever! You are a relaxing, generous, hilarious and lovely human spa!
Thanks so much Caroline!
@@JustinHawkinsRidesAgain Do you like
Incredible string band?
For me one off the most under rated bands off the sixties and seventies they basically put down Jimmy page mellow guitar work
His sister is the actress Gabrielle Drake, who those of us of a certain age remember in UFO in the early seventies. She has always continued to promote her brothers' talent, and co-wrote a memoir of him: Nick Drake-Remembered For A While, in 2014. Good video, nice that someone like this is remembered.
Emmerdale, too!
Good genes in that family.
used to fancy her, loved ufo when young ,didnt know then that years later would love her brothers music, strange days, rip nick
she was a BABE
She was an absolute beauty and totally devoted to advancing Nick's reputation in any way she could. You have to appreciate a sister like that.
Five Leaves Left is an absolutely perfect album. Not a bad or throwaway note. An exquisite artist.
I just discovered Nick about 6 weeks ago and I just can't get enough of his music....especially 'River Man.' I think it is one of THE most beautiful arrangements I've ever heard in my life. It makes me melancholy, but in a good way. It moves me at my core. I only wish he had known before his untimely passing how meaningful and loved his music is to SO many. I'd better hush before I end up in a puddle of tears.😢💗
He's amazing isn't he? I got into him about 20 years ago as a a depressed, stoned teenager so you can imagine how it resonated. I'ts possible his music helped me not go the same way he did, wonder how many more he did that for. I must have listened to him constantly for months, 'Place to Be' was the one that hooked me in. 'River Man' actually flows like a river, like it never ends.
@@SW-fn7cl Yes, he was amazing and thank goodness we can still enjoy his music. Not that their music was similar, but he reminds me in so many ways of Jim Morrison...his looks and the poetry of his music. I could listen to 'River Man' on a loop and never get bored with it. The chords he played on the guitar are like nothing I've ever heard before. Like you said, 'it never ends.' I'm so glad that you didn't go the way he did. It may have been intentional or maybe not, but I wish he was still here.😌
@@lindahandley5267 I live about 30 miles away from where he was from so even gone to see his grave amd house he lived in. Beautful little English village
@@SW-fn7cl How cool is that! I've seen some videos of his home and his grave. It IS a beautiful place, but from what I've seen of England, all of it is beautiful. Do you play music as well?
@@lindahandley5267 if you get out the cities and into the country England definitely is 🙂 you can tell how the rural life influenced Nicks songwriting, he makes lots of references to natural life. Yeah I play bass and guitar, not like Nick did though lol
Truly one of the most underrated songwriters the UK has ever produced. He’s part of that elite like John Martyn and Bert Jansch. Thanks for taking the time to talk about this gem of a musician 🙏❤️
He was friends with John Martin, solid air is about Nick Drake.
"Don’t know what’s going wrong in your mind,
And I can tell you don’t like what you find,"
Don’t forget Roy
Nick Drake is in a league of his own. his art is a gift to the world. on many dark days his music was my northern star. happy to see your take on him
What an artist. My favourite tune of his is Time Has Told Me. Perfect.
What a song John,in all 3 albums I cannot find a bad song
A troubled cure for a troubled mind - that's where Robert Smith got the name for The Cure which is awesome
The entire story of Nick Drake is so entwined with his songs, which is one of the reasons it's so powerful
His first album Five Leaves Left for example...
Five years after its release, he died.
I almost believe that he, in a way, quite literally transferred his soul into his music. When you fully learn his story and then listen to his music in order, it becomes clear
Nick Drake is an absolutely wonderful artist who never gets enough attention. Thank you for opening a few more ears to his brilliance.
I’m happy you showed me this man nick drake. He’s become my favorite musician. He truly was before his time. He has a sad story too… and the influence his mother had on his chord progressions is truly a beautiful thing.
Nick Drake is a hauntingly beautiful artist. I’m always surprised how little known he is. Even my 1960’s hippy in-laws had never heard of him. So many great songs, but Place to be is one of my favorites.
He is well known now days!, almost 2 million hits a month on Spotify. The late 60’s and early 70’s he was drowned out by the bigger folk acts like Simon and Garfunkel, John Martyn, Bert Jansch etc
Then those in-laws were out of touch. I come from that generation and discovered Nick Drake when I was a DJ at a university radio station around 1970, championing his music from then on. His reputation finally went broad after the VW commercial featuring "Pink Moon".
@@bid84 It's heartening that he has finally achieved a wider audience as he wanted. As for his reception at the time he was recording, I think there were several factors including his inability to promote his music with live concerts, interviews, etc. John Martyn and Bert Jansch are lesser artists, in my view--not unworthy but not as strong or worthy as Nick Drake. (Jansch was more known for his excellent guitar playing.)
Hey Justin, can you do a video about Nick Drake's buddy, John Martyn, please? Solid air or I'd Rather Be the Devil would be interesting songs to look at. Highly underrated artist.
An incredible artist………who was very heavily influenced by Nick Drake. Had the honour of seeing JM in the early 90s - what a fabulous performer!
'Five Leaves Left' is a stunning album.
Saturday Sun is a song that always takes me to a melancholic bliss. Five Leaves Left is a stunning album. Loved hearing you talk about this 👍
For some reason, Pink Moon is my favourite Nick Drake album. Just him and a guitar, stripped down to the very essence, and like you, doesn’t matter how hard I’m finding it to sleep, that album relaxes me beyond words. Thanks for covering him mate.
Same, its the raw/stripped back nature of it, voice guitar/piano emotion= pure magic
@@stupidhandles yep. The strings kinda detract from the beauty of his voice and guitar.
I’m not familiar with Nick Drake, this is why I love your channel, new music (to me) with context behind the artist 👍
I didn't know Justin Hawkins is making youtube videos. And has so much of them! Can't wait to dig deeper into them, great guy, charismatic, entertaining and at the same time providing some good knowledge. Perfect combo for platform like youtube
Oh boy are you in for a good time. I’ve not seen a bad video on his channel yet!
Welcome. You can never leave. His dedication requires your loyalty 😐
I notice you profile pic is not of Nick Drake but of the mighty Boris, for a fleeting moment I thought this video was going to be a reaction to Boris, love their nod to Drake with that particular album artwork
Once you discover Justin Hawkins on UA-cam, a whole new world of music shall be laid before you. He is the ultimate bus driver and tour guide for this musical adventure!
I can listen to you speak about music all day! Oh, goodness, I didn't realize Nick Drake is featured on the Garden State soundtrack. His song is one of my fav songs on that album! I was not familiar with this artist, but now I will be diving into his music catalogue thanks to this video!
Nick was a genius,
I love those 3 brilliant albums that he left us,John Martyn his friend wrote the song about this genius called solid air,he suffered from depression at a time when the medication for mental illness was not great
The fact that he was so emotional and upset by people talking or making noise during his performances gets me in all my feels.
Love all my feels
The late, great John Martyn wrote Solid Air about Nick Drake. Now there's someone you should do a video about...
John Martyn - just brilliant.
Solid Air live at RockPalast 1978 - the most incredible performance 👏🏻
🙏🙏🙏
So haunting. So deceptively sophisisticated. So beautiful.
This sounds like an artist I need to check out. Thanks Justin! 🖤
As someone once wisely said, "Music is empathy on demand"
It's weird how some music can touch you and you can really connect to it then you realise the artist had issues you can also relate too, Northern Sky is also a beautiful song and one I visit often for peace
discovered Nick Drake about 15 years ago and it is tragic how he was ignored during his lifetime. A crying shame he didn't get to see how beloved he's become. His music is timeless. According to Wiki Richard Thompson only played electric guitar on certain tracks and didn't play on Riverman. I've listened to other artists similar but they do nothing for me. There was something unique about Nick Drake. Reading his biography the lad was crippled with shyness which is very sad as he was a guitar genius
He’s looking down and watching with a smile I. believe ❤
Such a wonderful song - I've been to a couple of the Nick Drake gatherings that are held most years in Tanworth in Arden. You should pop along - it has a very chilled out vibe. Thanks for focussing on Nick's beautiful music.
When I lived in Banbury, I took a notion one day to drive to Tanworth In Arden and see Far Leys. This was 2001 so I think both his parents had died. I remember arriving in the village and suddenly thinking I was being really macabre and weird. So drove a circuit and then left. I sort of regret it now as I live in Belfast so I’m never that way.
It’s just next level isn’t it? The feeling that you get when you listen to Nick Drake is like no other. I was lucky enough to first hear his music when I was 15 and thank Bob I did. I listen to him before bed too, but also when I’m out walking in the woods and fields where I live. I’ve felt so many things over the years whilst enjoying his voice and music. What a dream. What a gift.
Just a great comment
It's so cool to see you talk about Nick Drake! I've loved his music for the last 13 years. I remember being floored by River Man the first time I heard it.
Justin, I can't thank you enough for shining a light on Nick Drake. Nick creeped into my DNA ages ago and beautifully haunts me to this day. I had the great fortune to play a festival with Dave Pegg and Dave Mattacks who played on Bryter Layter and they entertained my questions about Nick for quite some time. They were very fond of Nick and knew during the recording how special his talent was. Despite his demons, by all accounts he was as lovely as his music. Thank you Justin.
"Round the Bend" from Beck’s record Sea Change either samples this heavily or recreates much of the melody here (specifically the orchestral bits).
Sea Change is a phenomenal album
That album seems very influenced by Nick Drake's music. You may not know this, but Beck recorded at least three Nick Drake covers including a nice rendition of "Parasite".
@@surfwriter8461 "Lifting the mask from a local clown; feeling down, like him." I've never heard of Beck covering any of Nick Drake's songs before your comment; but I'll definitely be looking for it.
So glad to see someone with your size as a UA-camr talking about this underrated legend. Thank you Justin!
Nick Drake got me through a tough time in my life. I actually found out about his music by accident. A friend of mine told me to look up Nick Cave and I forgot his last name so I just bought a Nick Drake album and fell in love with it.
Nick to me is just musical beauty ❤️
And how!
@@kevinhill6079 It sounds lovely Kevin
@@kidinthecloud I agree completely. He was one of those people who just made everything so 'pretty.'
I discovered Nick Drake from a Mojo magazine article on him in 1994, following the release of the compilation Way To Blue. He had a profound effect on me, I was 22 and lonely and low and the music both soothed and spoke. He truly is the epitome of a lost artist. Not something the press are trying to talk up, but a true genius. Extraordinary playing, captured so well by Joe Boyd. The string arrangements by his friend Robert Kirby are perfection.
If you haven’t watched A Skin Too Few you should, any of you. When Northern Sky takes off at the end you will shed a tear for him and his beautiful music. And his sister and a small team curate his legacy so well.
I’ve been listening to Nick since 1986, his music never gets tired.
Northern Sky, Way to Blue, Fly, and PInk Moon are all heartfelt masterpieces. Thanks Justin
How are you not also shedding tears while you're falling asleep to this shit? Nick Drake was incredible, and one of the few musicians who's songs make dread and loneliness feel good for a minute.
Still buzzing from the Perth show tonight!! AMAZING!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 Couldn’t stop hearing 🎶 Justin Hawkins Rides Again…Againnnnnn 🎶 in my head between every song 😅
ha. should be their intro tune
They were great and Southern River Band as supporting act were also top-notch.
@@MashaRollz Agreed! Really enjoyed SRB! Cal is a great frontman
I'm so pleased to know that you are a Nick Drake fan. I heard his music on a commercial back in 2009 and I've been hooked ever since. Pink Moon is a masterpiece of an album.
"Life in a Northern Town" by Dream Academy is about Nick.
I followed Nicks patch and busked the same streets as him in Aix en Provance, France. Been in love with his music for 25 years
I love, love, love Nick Drake. Some of the most beautiful and thought provoking music I've had the pleasure to enjoy.
Love Nick Drake! Would be cool to get a video on Bert Jansch as well.
Drake was a master. Beautiful. And that Maj9/min9 switch is all over his work.
I made a video with friends of “I believe in a thing called love”. It was years ago, drunk as hell, 5 am in the morning and with the crappiest webcam ever. It looks pretty cool now though..
Oh, thank you for remembering Nick Drake. His music and fragility has always managed to touch me. Your channel is a real treasure.
What a brilliant yet tragic story. So grateful his sister/family went against his wishes to have all of this beautiful, timeless music released. Well done sir!
Drake was a genius gone too soon. 'Pink Moon' is one of my favorite records!
"River Man" w/that string arrangement is godlike. _Pink Moon_ is the quintessential coffee shop album. _Bryter Layter_ is an acquired taste with it's early '70s Soft Pop production but the songs win out - best of the three, imo.
I love the simplicity of Five Leaves Left. Cello song or man in a shed are my favourites.
Discovered Justin during a Covid lockdown. Was quite comfortable in my study and Justin proved to be terrific company, funny and insightful. Thanks for your thoughts on music - Nick Drake always a favourite, keep the vids coming, and thanks again for the company!
"...few bear comparison to Nick's form, much less his essence" - Joe Boyd. Happy Celestial Birthday, Nick (June 19, 1948 - Nov. 25, 1974)
Have a listen to the music of Nick's mother Molly. There's a definite connection between how they both wrote, a common mood. Nick just refined it and took it further.
I'd say it was redefined as opposed to refined regarding Molly's music. :)
relaxing...yes but most of all incredibly moody and melancholy. For me, it's impossible to listen to Nick Drake and not get emotionally overwhelmed...at the same time being totally in awe of his amazing musicality and guitar playing skills.
Nick Drake. What can I say? Just phenomenal. Thanks Justin!
How lovely to hear you review something "more of my era" I discovered Nick Drake just about when I went to college, so Nick Drake's been in my life for more than 40 years. I'd love to see you tangle with more from 1970s The classic era of rock and pop. Nick Drake was incredible. A lot of those jazz/folk/rock fusion things are almost forgotten; I can think of Jackson Frank, Paul Clayton, Fred Neil, Buzzy Linhart, Tim Rose, Bonnie Koloc, Judee Sill, there are loads that could do with a little of your light to shine on them and get people listening once more to the crazy artistry that was out there before the music scene became a mega industry and crushed its butterflies on the wheel
This is one of the most amazing songs ever written. When I first heard it, I had to listen to it 3 more times. It is such a compelling song musically and lyrically.
One of the greatest of all time. I can remember the first time I heard him, when the Heaven in a Wildflower compilation came out.
Riverman is one of my favourites too... His entire catalogue is wonderful.
Nick Drake is one of the few artists I discovered as a teenager that genuinely affected my life, and for the better. Such a beautiful man
"Girlfriend", off One Way Ticket to Hell, was in fact legendary to me... when that album dropped I listened to that song over and over and over... of course I was also finalizing a relationship that was also over and over and over 😂.... thanks Justin and the rest of The Darkness ❤
Thanks for that Justin. I've been a fan of Nick Drake since the heady days of being 16. You mentioned Richard Thompson on the video. It would be marvellous to hear you analyse one of his songs. An absolutely superb guitarist. Keep up the good work :-)
Absolutely this!
Riverman is my favourite Nick Drake song of them all. My heart fluttered when you said that title!!
Wow, this is a huge surprise. Nick Drake was amazing and I'm always happy when he gets a bit more attention. Black Eyed Dog features some of the most haunting vocals and guitar work ever, would love to see a reaction to it.
I have loved Nick drake for over 20 years. Thank you for this video. I have just recently discovered John Martyn , Bless the weather has a similar vibe I find. Cheers!
Nick Drake altered my DNA
That's the job of Bill Gates now
NDA
Nick Drake, John Martyn, Nic Jones & Bert Jansch all deserve more recognition.
Most of Drakes songs tend to be in open tunings. Things behind the sun was in standard I think.
His biography by Patrick humphries is a good read. Sad story but some interesting facts.
I'm sure I read, as a student he bumped into the stones in a cafe in morocco & hung out for a while 🤔
John Martyn is *for me* the greatest folk artist from Britain. So underrated. I think Nick Drake could have been up there with him. RIP to both of them.
"Day is done" is also in standard. And also very difficult... Drake was such a talented guitarist.
Solid air was written about Nick
Magnificent he was, and utterly unique in every way.
Just watching your video after playing River Man to my 5 year old boy as he settles down, he fell asleep just before the outro, so yes, a super relaxing song.
I always tend to listen to 5 Leaves Left on a rare lazy Sunday, it seems so perfect for that time.
I love Nick Drake. I wish he'd stuck around long enough for more people to discover him.
Loved him. Met his actor sister once too, lovely person.
This was such a pleasant surprise today. Nick Drake is one of my favorite artists along with Elliott smith. I hope to see a video on Elliott one day as well!