Joe Boyd — the producer who recorded Pink Floyd's first single, brought Fairport Convention and Nick Drake to the studio, and ran Hannibal Records — has given a wide-ranging interview to It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine. Conducted by Klemen Breznikar and published 12 October 2026, the conversation covers Boyd's early years at the UFO Club, his work with the Incredible String Band, the making of Fairport Convention's Liege & Lief, and the Nick Drake sessions that still haunt him.

Boyd speaks candidly about the records he wishes had gone differently. He describes hearing the Sound Techniques demo from the first day of the Five Leaves Left sessions and being "moved to tears" — the slower tempos giving Drake more space for nuance on guitar and voice. He also revisits his long opposition to releasing outtakes, acknowledging that the digital age made that stance untenable, and reflects on the "no-doubts" confidence he once had before the commercial failure of Drake's albums.

The interview touches on his defence of the term "world music", his scepticism toward click tracks and programmed rhythms, and his recent book And the Roots of Rhythm Remain. For readers of this site, the most revealing passages concern the British underground of the mid-1960s and the thin line between production vision and imposition. Boyd's admission that he "mourn[s] the loss of that 'no-doubts' self" lands with the weight of a producer who helped shape a generation of psychedelic and folk-rock records.