Light On Dark Water

Weekend Music

Another find from either the eMusic or Amazon daily free tracks.

It has become pretty predictable that almost any introspective melancholy singer-songwriter will be compared to Nick Drake. In my experience, the comparison is not generally particularly illuminating: the net is cast too wide, because Drake was so distinctive, musically and lyrically and emotionally.  But this song and performance strike me as being closer to his work than anything else I've heard. It could be called derivative, I guess. But that doesn't matter much because it's so good.