Joe Boyd and Nick Drake 💫

 

Joe Boyd, was a well-known figure in "Swingin' London" in the mid-to-late 1960s, among the founders of the UFO Club in London and later known as a producer of British rock, folk and folk rock artists such as Martin Carthy, John Martyn, Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, Richard Thompson, The Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention...

He left America after attending Dylan's legendary electric concert in Newport, considered one of the turning points of music in the Sixties, and settled in the United Kingdom as a talent scout on the payroll of Elektra Records.

An entrepreneur with a decidedly uncommon creative vision, capable, together with the artists and bands he collaborated with, of imagining and creating a mosaic of bold and original musical projects, creating new sounds and styles.

Despite all this enormous skill and experience, when Boyd saw Nick Drake at work for the first time, he was speechless, incredulous in front of so much genius, almost in devout awe.

A young Joe Boyd and late Nick Drake at Witchseason’s offices in London: Nick’s handling Fairport Convention’s Full House 💫

Admiration and deep respect, which pushed the American producer to work with Nick in the making of the first two albums, Five Leaves Left and Bryter Layter.

Commitment to promoting Drake's crystalline talent, which Boyd continued to consistently carry forward even after the premature death of the artist from Tanworth-in-Arden, beyond beyond until the deserved "success"...