Mike Doughty

Nick Drake climbed to the top of the hot-dead-English-guy charts in the late '80s, when the boxed set Fruit Tree first exposed America to this gentle, mystical singer-songwriter. Dead of an accidental prescription drug overdose in 1974, Drake recorded barely two hours' worth of music in his entire career, but he had a warm, intimate voice and acoustic guitar to flesh out his frail love-and-death...