Jack Johnson must feel he is connected to Nick Drake because they're both acoustic guitarists. He's probably right, because there ain't much else they have in common. Nevertheless, Jack has decided to put together a tribute album dedicated to enigmatic hippie songwriter Nick Drake. The likes of Eddie Vedder, Dave Grohl and Norah Jones have weighed in as well. Drake died in 1974 from an overdose on antidepressants, aged 26. His too-short career birthed three troubled and delicately beautiful albums that weren't recognised then, but have since gone on to earn cult status.
The tribute album, set to be released through Jack Johnson’s Brushfire Records, also includes a short film of late actor Heath Ledger simulating suicide to Drake’s song Black Eyed Dog. It was believed Ledger was developing a Drake biopic when he died last year of an accidental overdose. He made the Black Eyed Dog video for an art installation in 2007. We at Music Universe are looking forward to it so much that we've been playing Drake's albums all week. Oh yeah, we've also gone through a dozen boxes of Kleenex.
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