 On 4 April 2018, he was inducted him into the Folk Hall of Fame at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.In 1994, "Rolling Stone" journalist Paul Evans said Drake's music "throbs with [an] aching beauty" similar to the 1968 Van Morrison album "Astral Weeks".According to AllMusic critic Richie Unterberger, Drake was a "singular talent" who "produced several albums of chilling, somber beauty", now "recognized as peak achievements of both the British folk-rock scene and the entire rock singer/songwriter genre".