Rick Drost

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added by: John O’Leary
September 19, 2018

In the wee hours of the morning in late May, 2017, I ran into Rick Drost at an open mic in the historic Burren pub in Somerville, Massachusetts. He had just released his first solo album of songs, Turning the World, and was performing two spell-bending cuts from it. I realized then and there that the Class of ’69 had unleashed another force to be reckoned with.

Rick has been writing songs—good ones—since his Branford College days at Yale, where he sang in the Glee Club, the Augmented Seven, and the Battell Choir. Post-Yale he has sung in small and large choruses (including the Yale Alumni Chorus) and small acoustic folk groups.

But from the early 2000s he has kicked it up a notch and been performing solo as a singer/songwriter/guitarist in New England, the Midwest, and the Southeast.  After retiring from a career as a software engineer in 2015, he was able to focus even more attention on his music, with notable results.

Turning the World is evidence of that.  The reviews have been impressive, to say the least.  According to No Depression (THE journal of roots music), Rick’s musical approach invites comparisons to Tom Rush, Tom Paxton, and John Sebastian. The full review is here.

Audio

Below are some of Rick’s best tracks, which he is making available to all Classmates free of charge.

Tips For Listening: If you click on any song, it will play, and the next song will “autoplay.” If you want to save a song, right click on it and “save target as.”

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