Which one is your favorite? - XXVI -

This week's song is coming from a great English singer-songwriter who has passed away at a very young age in 1974.  He lived just to 26, made three albums but influenced a lot of musicians. It was recorded and released in 1969 as a second single of the album called "Five Leaves Left".

Here is the song for this week;

"River Man"

Nick Drake wrote this song in a 5/4 time signature and is one of the few songs he wrote to be played in standard tuning. The song is backed by a 12-strong string section heavy on violas composed by Harry Robertson. 

The album title is referred to the warning found towards the end of a packet of Rizla cigarette papers, that there were only five leaves left.

The song has been covered numerous times mostly by jazz musicians.

Here are the versions I picked for you;

• Benjamin Clementine - "River Man"

• Lizz Wright - "River Man"

• Andy Bey - "River Man"

Now the floor is yours, go ahead and make your comments (here, Instagram, Facebook wherever you feel like...).

nb. Please note that I intentionally do not include the original versions of the songs as it would be a little unfair to the artists covering the songs, and I am sure that sometimes you will be surprised to see that the songs you thought were the originals are just covers.