In 1999 Gilbert Isbin, the virtuoso Belgian guitarist recorded a tribute album to the tragic hero of English Fingerstyle - Nick Drake. Here is a transcription of one of the tracks on this stunning album - "Freeride". Good luck, have fun and keep up the pickin'. You can listen to an mp3 of "Freeride" and other tracks including "Riverman" on our Acoustic Radio site.

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The Belgian guitarist, Gilbert Isbin, a master of jazz fingerstyle gives us wonderfully oblique, subtle and hauntingly beautiful interpretations of 10 of Drake's songs, including such classics as "River Man" and "Way To Blue". Drake was a fan of people like Miles Davis and I am sure he would have approved of these exquisite, jazz-inflected fingerstyle renditions Isbin so deftly gives his songs.
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