Poor Boy: Songs of Nick Drake
…er to DSD for release as a hybrid SACD. For the design of Poor Boy Reif had developed a visual metaphor — photographs of Drake’s black leather pouch/changepurse containing a 1948 ha’ penny (the year of his birth), a gift from his father that he apparently always carried with him for luck…not therefore a coin to be lightly thrown over the poor boy’s…
Day in the Sun
…recording of Josefina Robledo, and even through the very poor sound you can hear her amazing guitar tone. Partly this comes from her not using nails but the flesh of the fingers, and gut strings (which were the only ones available at the time). When I spun the Bellido with gut strings and worked on a no-nail technique I found a warm sound that insp…