Molly Drake – The Tide’s Magnificence: Songs and Poems of Molly Drake
Molly Drake is my new favorite artist and will be for a while. Nick Drake’s mother! Why didn’t anybody tell me about this?
I haven’t been this moved this much by anything in years. Just a beautiful voice singing beautiful poetry. I guess I can see where Nick Drake got his talent. She was obviously an influence.
I just discovered her songs and was captivated. If I had discovered her when I was in college I probably would have retroactively fallen in love with her. I was a weird kid.
Her music is old school art. She should be as famous as her son, as a singer and as a poet. It’s kind of… I don’t know, classical? 40s pop? British folk? It’s kind of old fashioned, but at the same time it’s like buried treasure. Something your art teacher forgot to mention.
Her music had no exposure until 2000 when people heard a couple of her songs in the Nick Drake documentary, A Skin Too Few. It seems crazy that she’s been so little-known all this time. She also has an amazing life story.
In a way it makes me sad. We’re all having wars about culture and we have plenty of entertainment, but it sometimes feels like people have forgotten how to love art. Except for hip hop of course. (They’re the only relevant American poets anymore. Not all, but some.)
I love this almost as much as Pink Moon. It’s crazy that I hadn’t gotten around to talking about Nick Yet and here I am posting about his mother. I just had to share. I’m that big a culture nerd.
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