Anybody familiar with his music? Any fans? I've always been a fan...had a few of his albums for well over 15 years now...none of my friends even know ho he was. A little background he was an acoustic English singer songwriter in the late 60s/early 70s. He had a very unique smoky haunting quality to his voice and he had some interesting arrangements in his songs. He died at the age of 26 of an antidepressant overdose. Although its was never really confirmed accidental or suicide many people suspect the latter because of his depression problems. Seems he was a very shy tortured soul...very little if any live footage of him remains. Like so many he left the world early and never got to see the impact his art had. Beck, REM and Elton John have all cited him as a big influence.

Yeah Nick Drake is cool. My dad bought a box set of his complete work when I was a kid, knowing my dad I'm sure he knew who he was when he was alive as well but that was when I first heard him