Robert Barnett - Far Leys/Sketch 1 | Nick Drake Cover (Rambling Sessions)
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In Loving Memory of Nicholas Rodney Drake (1948 - 1974) & Sonya Marie Chenery (1984 - 2022).

It is no secret to anyone that follows me on social media, or who knows me in the real world, just how big an influence Nick Drake has had on my life - both in terms of shaping my musical style and bringing me into contact with some amazing people and experiences… I even wrote my BA and MA dissertations on him and John Martyn! So, I shall do my best to not wax lyrical about him here.

I first had the idea for the ‘Rambling Sessions’ series whilst visiting Tanworth-In-Arden in 2015 and thinking to myself that it’d be a lovely thing to record a tribute video to Nick in the place he lived for a large part of his life. I’m over the moon that I finally got round to it!

Over the years I have covered many of Nick’s songs, but I felt ‘Far Leys/Sketch 1’ would be an appropriate one for this video. Given that it was posthumously named after his home, which coincidentally was about a 3 minute walk from where I recorded this video, it just felt right.

It’s always been important to me that people love Nick for his music and don’t try to colour his work with romanticised ideas of depression - he was more than his end. I hope this tribute goes in some way to celebrate the beauty of his music and life.

I also want to dedicate this video to one of the wonderful members of the Nick Drake Gathering family - Sonya Chenery - who sadly passed away in May this year. She was such a kind and creative soul, and made me feel immediately welcome when attending my first Gathering, and she continued that sincere generosity right up until the last time I saw her.

Any money made from sales of Nya Shelley Music (her duo project with James Edge) will be donated in perpetuity to the Isabel Hospice, who cared so well for Sonya over the last week of her illness, which had progressed to grade 4 astrocytoma in the last few months of her life.

I will provide a link to her music below. May she rest in peace.

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I have plans to release an indoors/cleaner recording of 'Far Leys/Sketch 1' at some point in the future, but I thought it was important to remain true to the intent of this project, which is to play music in places of inspiration with minimal edits or studio trickery. I just hope that the love I put into making this video is a fitting tribute to two people that deserved the best.

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Technical details:
Guitar is a Martin 000-15ME. Tuning is DADGAD (Capo 4th fret). Recorded live on a Tascam DR-40X. Mixed in Pro Tools.

Filmed on an iPhone 12. Edited in VEGAS Movie Studio 16 Platinum. Film grain, dust, and lens filters from Vintage Film Filter Pack by Stamatis Stabos.
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About Robert Barnett
Robert Barnett is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter based in Rugby, Warwickshire. Robert has received high praise for his fingerstyle guitar technique and poetic lyricism. Over the years he has played in many bands - most recently Shemp - but has now returned to solo playing and writing (with the odd collab here and there along the way!). Robert has just recorded his first two full-length albums of original music, with 'Afterglow' seeing a release in December 2021, and his first instrumental album 'Voiceless' hot on its heels just 3 months later in February 2022!

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