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Nick Drake is being honored with a new covers tribute album, The Endless Coloured Ways – The Songs Of Nick Drake, which will be out in July. Contributors include Liz Phair, Feist, Philip Selway, Bombay Bicycle Club & The Staves, Let’s Eat Grandma, Ben Harper, John Parish & Aldous Harding, Christian Lee Hutson, Skullcrusher & Gia Margaret, Mike Lindsay & Guy Garvey, John Grant, and more.
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Reuters - Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters and Norah Jones are among the acts confirmed for a tribute album to influential English singer-songwriter Nick Drake, who died in 1974.
According to Billboard.com, Jack Johnson's Brushfire Records is set to release a tribute to the posthumously adored British singer-songwriter, with turns from Eddie Vedder, Norah Jones, Dave Grohl, and laid back Jack. It'll also feature that Heath Ledger version of "Black Eyed Dog". Title and release date TBA. (Also, José and the Books's Drake ...
On the surface, Jack Johnson's music sounds like Nick Drake's music. Both singers have quiet voices. There are acoustic guitars.But get beyond that and there seems to be little connecting the two-- Drake was an introvert who died of an antidepressant overdose at age 26, Johnson is a sufin' Hawaii dude who did the soundtrack to the Curious George...
Artists including Dave Grohl, Eddie Vedder, Norah Jones and Jack Johnson are set to appear on a forthcoming Nick Drake tribute CD.
That blockbuster Dark Was The Night charity comp is following up on yesterday's Dirty Projectors & David Byrne MP3 with a new song stream every day over at MySpace. Today's taste is a take on Nick Drake's "Cello Song," which makes sense given the artists covering it. Listen.


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