VA - Poor Boy: Songs Of Nick Drake (2015) [Hi-Res]

"... offers a thought-provoking perspective of Drake's legacy that clearly transcends his era and sometimes even his melancholic image."
- All About Jazz

"They take songs that were almost like museum pieces, because so few of us ever heard Drake in concert and they bring the songs into a lively dialogue with the popular music continuum ... a noble victory."
- PopMatters.com

British folkster Nick Drake’s gorgeous, tantalizingly ambiguous songs have been covered often over the years, but perhaps not with the range of interpretive powers and depth of emotional commitment that these West Coast artists bring to bear reimagining his music. The Songlines label mounted a four-and-a-half hour tribute concert in Vancouver in 1999 fraught with technical and creative glitches. Rather than release the recordings of those performances, the label decided instead to produce this tribute record from scratch in 2004, with high quality studio sound and the benefit of hindsight. The jazz arrangements recorded in Vancouver left room for improvisation; the mood modulated from introspective to hip, knowing to exploratory, with everything being recorded in a couple of takes with no overdubs or editing (except for one solo clarinet fantasia). Further sessions in Seattle were tracked more like a pop record: with layers of overdubs certain songs took on a psychedelic aura, while others seemed stripped down to the essentials of melody, harmony and lyrics.

Tracklist:
01. Bill Horist - Cello Song
02. Kate Hammett-Vaughan - Clothes of Sand
03. Chris Gestrin - One of These Things First
04. Jason Michas - Three Hours
05. Robin Holcomb - Hanging on a Star
06. François Houle 6 - For Nick/Horn/Know
07. Kate Hammett-Vaughan - Poor Boy
08. Mike Dumovich - Fly
09. Friendly Science Orchestra - Parasite
10. Veda Hille - Road
11. Bill Horist - Things Behind the Sun
12. Mount Analogue, - River Man
13. Ian Moore - Black Eyed Dog
14. Mike Dumovich - From the Morning