I am sure you all know Nick Drake, but even for those in the know , this is a fascinating interview with the great Joe Boyd, producer of most of the iconic late sixties , early seventies folk rock masterpieces.... Well worth a listen...This is also my favorite music blog show.....

I cant not play my hand at this point (before Dereks gig) as I am too enamoured with this disc to not rave..Definitely the best album of the year for me...I cant claim it is ground breaking or a bold new find, and maybe it shows how I have fallen behind in my music courses , but Kurt Viles new disc wont get out of my bloody cd player.....its the same kind of sound as his last album but generally a more electrified, long winded endless jam session of that sound... granted that sounds like the crappy last disc of All things must pass...but its not... the grooves are endlessly listenable, never tiresome and if anything I want the long songs to go on even longer.....the whole disc works as a single piece of music that endlessly varies twists and turns with underplayed / understated emotion that rings superbly real and true with hooks that pile on hooks...its as if he has deconstructed his sound into its base elements and then he sits back and grooves on it....perhaps the sound of the summer of 2013 for me....