Monday, April 09, 2007

For Nick Drake completists only



I've had these tracks for a while now and thought it would be worth
making them available in one place. They really are for completists
only
.

Nick Drake didn't play much in front of others, and didn't play with others much, concentrating on recording his own songs and a few select folk-blues covers. Somehow, however, his arranger and friend Robert Kirby managed to entice him to play as guitarist on a couple of sessions, one recording some children's songs for an educational record called Interplay One (1971) with the folk singer Vivian Fowler, and the other on the decent folk-rock LP 'Dark and Devil Waters' (1972) by Mick Audsley (now a much in demand film editor in the UK). There's very little Nick in these tracks it seems, but take a listen and see what you think...


From Interplay One (1971),

From Dark and Devil Waters (1972),


p.s. Elton John's covers of Nick's songs are still available here

2 comments:

millionsuns said...

hello hello,

i just did a search for these Mick Audsley tracks (which i've been trying to find forever) and your blog showed up. is there any way at all i could get a copy of these tracks from you? my email address is lunaharpua@aim.com. i'm a huge Nick Drake fan and would love to hear these.

thanks so much.

E

Jon said...

E - check your email for a temporary gift. all the best