Nick Drake - Black Eyed Dog

Hear ye now faithful reader, the death rattle of a gentle genius. Posthumously hailed by music critics as one of the most influential British folk singers ever, Nick Drake was the proverbial sullen minstrel. In Black Eyed Dog, his darkest musical moment, there's not much left to the imagination. His was a soul in anguish and sadly he died a short time later from an overdose of anti-depressants. (Many believe it was suicide, but his parents and some close friends insist it isn't so.) At least his songs of quiet desperation did not go to the grave with him à la Thoreau.