Like many people, I first heard Nick Drake while watching a Volkswagon commercial in 2004. It quickly became my favorite commercial and I'd always turn it up when it came on. Eventually I decided to figure out to whom that beautiful voice belonged. I quickly found his name and several of his other songs on YouTube. My husband and I listened to them over and over, in awe of the simple beauty each one contained. The music touched something deep inside us and we eagerly went in search of more information about Nick. Since we had never heard of him before, we were thinking that he was a contemporary...
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