The Under-appreciated Genius of Nick Drake ⭐️ Mackenzie Crook

[@abloke8834]

Anyone who plays an acoustic guitar can appreciate Nick Drake. His fingerstyle and tunings were fantastic.

[@robinmacaw]

Incredibly Talented Very Humble... Detectorists was / is Utter Genius and the Best Thing the BBC have ever done on TV.

[@maxvolmue99]

Yes it's brilliant

[@lesterthorpe4190]

I remember seeing Nick Drake play his early songs , in a famous folk club in Greek Street / Soho ( “ Les cousins “ ) in 1969 ..I think … and there was only a dozen of us there to appreciate , and as I was sitting opposite him , admiring his finger picking style , as well as his gentle voice too . ❤ ( I’d been tipped off by a fellow office worker, to go and listen ! 😊) p.s. “ 5 leaves left “ is my favourite album to listen to , any time of the year .

[@ostrichman]

nice one - thats a brag and a half.

[@davidb5173]

You don't realise how lucky you are. Like seeing a unicorn

[@ostrichman]

@@davidb5173 a unicorn that gave us 3 beautiful albums and a handful of demos etc then decided to cut its own horn off (accidentally according to Nicola Freeman)

[@alanhunter1557]

I hope you did the football pools after that experience because with that huge piece of luck like that you should have. I rarely experience envy……..but after reading your anecdote I’m certain I turned a gentle shade of green lol

[@lesterthorpe4190]

@ and , to top it off , an excellent evening of four sessions , was shared with John Martyn , and they seemed to respect each other’s style of music too , which was nice 😊. It was a very special night!

[@jiminycrint]

River Man is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. And the performance on that recording is almost shaman like in its calm controlled assured delivery.

[@eightiesmusic1984]

I wonder Mr C would agree.

[@jeffrey3498]

Well said! 😎👍

[@ealexeenko]

What a sweet and a nice guy Mr Crook is! It was a delight watching this!

[@VAPIDISM]

Sadly what you missed out when bringing up Mackenzie`s back catalogue was the brilliant Detectorists. Which he not only played a main character in but also wrote and directed.

[@kjh789az]

Absolutely! Ryan's credibility just panned...

[@gregogarrio2173]

Mackenzie is a British national treasure, so humble, thoughtful and engaging.

[@stewartcohen-jones2949]

Having been brought up in the English countryside one connects with the trees , rivers , lakes and sky like an Urban child connects with streets , billboards , concrete and streetlights. The imagination that comes with escape feeds on the sounds around us. Nick’s songs take me back to what seemed like a spiritual connection with the land.

[@pollybott67]

The book is beautiful! I got it today and cried from the first page to the last. Thank you for writing it Mackenzie 🥰

[@PatJenningsGloves]

Gorgeous music, The Thoughts Of Mary Jane sounds like an English summer afternoon. All three albums have some wonderful moments, all are worth owning. I also like the compilation Time Of No Reply.❤❤

[@jamesrowe3606]

I like both Nick Drake and McKenzie Crook as artists and I think I'd also like them as people too if I'd ever met them. My first experience of Nick's music was on a 60s Island Records sampler, wittily called El Pea. The track was actually mis-titled on the sleeve as One Of These Things First, but it was actually Northern Skies. Both songs are much-loved favourites now.

[@dominus1204]

I'm probably happier than I should be that he named his daughter after Harper Lee's character. I assumed he had because I've never heard that name anywhere else, buty so cool for some reason that he took that name for her. I hope Scout grows to have the same stuff as the character had in the book ... and what a really fantastic man Mackenzie Crook is!

[@Slarti2]

I recently found out that Nick Drake's last gig was at the college I went to NESCOT near Ewell, Surrey. Apparently the gig went badly for Nick, nerves got the better of him and he stopped early and walked off the stage. I think he was one of the acts supporting Genesis there.

[@scarlettifluff]

Mackenzie you are a person I would love to turn up on my doorstep and I think we would get on. As soon as you said Jude I thought of Thomas Hardy, and when you said that I squealed out loud. I really appreciate the way your mind moves. When I think of your work, I think of The Detectorists, more than anything else, maybe because I grew up in the english countryside amongst all its eccentricity - Thankyou!

[@johnnowlan9963]

Paul weller got people in to Nick in the 90s😎

[@raycarter4030]

I don’t really buy books any more but I’ll buy this, as I love Nick Drake and Mackenzie’s work.

[@sratus]

It looks like it's about 16 words & costs around 16 quid. Yikes.

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

McKenzie was on Cerys Matthew's fab Sunday show this morning, and he read out a sweet poem about Nick!

[@ArsonFire00]

How did Ryan not mention The Detectorists?!

[@sidwallace6053]

So true one of the greatest programs the BBC has made and surely with the way it ended there’s bound to be another run

[@ostrichman]

hes there to plug his book?

[@scarlettifluff]

yes, my absolute first choice :)

[@frankshailes3205]

I didn't know the book existed until I saw it in Waterstones yesterday. Instant top of my wishlist for Santa!

[@KateWilson-e7v]

This sounds ridiculous but Heartbeat is responsible for my love of Nick Drake .He is a genius

[@PatJenningsGloves]

Not ridiculous at all, they played some great stuff over the years on that show.Heartbeat rocks lol😂

[@merseydave1]

The 24th of November 1974 (I was 9 then) ... It is tomorrow I will remember him all through the night.

[@marie27023]

I will too. 50 years…I wish he'd known how much his music means to so many people even now.

[@jimmyowenmusic]

I'm just about to release a cover of Nick's River Man, I can remember first hearing it.. stirred something deep in my soul 🎶🌊

[@thomas79marshall]

'release' it. are you sure?

[@spinynormanbest6410]

What a nice man

[@kjh789az]

Mackenzie Crook - what a talent!

[@lawrencejhutchinson]

Monday the 25th will be the 50th anniversary of Nick's death - I can still remember sitting on the bus to school and reading that he had died!

[@eightiesmusic1984]

The Dream Academy ( Life In A Northern Town and Love Parade) were influenced by Nick Drake. David Gilmour of Pink Floyd produced their first album. Life In A Northern Town was written in tribute to Nick Drake.

[@eakaratsarsukh1033]

BEYOND THE STAR ⭐️

[@MaxMetrault1]

Appreciation for Nick Drake is worldwide and sky-high. But male music-heads will always say someone is under-rated as a way of saying "My taste is superior. "

[@WhitbyStuff]

Is Nick Drake under-appreciated? I hoped we all knew he was a genius.

[@eakaratsarsukh1033]

APPRECIATE

[@justmadeit2]

Gareth from The Office

[@matchfactoryman]

Never got Nick Drake, still don’t, dreary songs with lyrics that I can’t mostly decipher and I’m a muso. God rest his soul but his short life enhanced his musical reputation

[@MDD88B]

Nonsense. His lyrics and music far outshine the majority of contemporaries, he's william blake crossed with an acoustic jimi hendrix. Compare five leaves left to debuts by countless others and it blows them out of the water. To say his life enhances the music is facile , take the music on musics terms its timeless.

[@stratsmyboy7169]

His lyrical genius, guitar genius and wonderful melodies are what made him but you either get it or you dont, to each their own

[@ritaphipps]

The first time I heard him, I was in a cafe in Montreal and remember feeling transported or changed somehow. I asked the owner whose music was playing and became a fan. Truly gifted and one of maybe five artists who've affected me this way. 10:35

[@mikethebloodthirsty]

Well he was a introvert... He wasn't interested in appealing to people like you who wouldn't have got him, you would have had Mud or Shawadywaddy to listen to.😂

[@lesterthorpe4190]

@@mikethebloodthirsty and this was edited ? 🤭

[@brucethomas5123]

I have a doubt about scout!