PLEDGE WEEK: “Fruit Tree” by Nick Drake

Andrew Hickey· Host0:00

This episode is part of Pledge Week 2025. For five days this week, I will be posting old Patreon bonus episodes to the main feed to encourage people to subscribe to my Patreon. If you want more of these, and only if you can afford it, subscribe for $1 a month at patreon.com/andrewhickey. Whether you do or not, I hope you enjoy this one.

Speaker 1· Soundbite0:21

Ba-da-da, rock and roll. Ba-da-da-da, yeah. Rock and roll. Roll and rock away. Up and down, round and round we'll sway. We'll be swell, in the spell. Of the rockin' rockin' rhythm of the sea.

Andrew Hickey· Host0:40

Before we begin, this episode contains discussion of mental illness and suicide. So if those topics are likely to be disturbing, you may wish to skip this one or to read the transcript. As with the last Patreon bonus episode on Gaudete by Steel Eye Span, this episode is one I originally planned to go with the Fairport Convention main episodes before the story of Never Learned Not to Love expanded so much. Though, as it happens, there are also connections to the current episode. Nick Drake, like Steel Eye Span and Fairport Convention, and like John Martyn and the Incredible String Band, who we've covered earlier, was part of the flourishing of British folk music at the end of the 1960s centered around Joe Boyd, who was the major connection between the folk and psychedelic scenes in Britain at the time.