NICK DRAKE
This from Brother Jobe over at Voodoo Wagon this afternoon and if you don't have it you really should if you are a Drake fan and let's face it who isn't!? I have this double CD down in the vaults and played it to death back in 2014 so if you really don't have this it is really well worth it. It made me revisit this collection of early demos and radio miscellany (John Peel etc) Much missed and the main inspirer and influencer of so many (not least John Martyn!) a British legend taken far too soon . . . . . . . .
Nick Drake - Day Gone By - Voodoo Wagon
time has told me you're a rare rare find . . . . . . .
a troubled cure for a troubled mind…
sadly true and no cure was found
Drake suffered chronic depression and possibly an undiagnosed schizophrenia, he was found dead from an overdose of amitriptyline in 1974, prescribed for his mental health issues and whilst he left no note he did leave a letter to his sometime girlfriend Sophia Ryde (he had unconsummated relationships with women including a deeply close relationship with fellow musician Linda Thompson).
His sister the actor Gabrielle and his mother Molly are worth following and researching too. Molly has been published posthumously and The Unthanks have recorded a tribute to her* and by extension Nick
Molly Drake died in 1993
On her tombstone it reads "Now we rise, and we are everywhere"
Bryter Music - The Official Site of Nick and Molly Drake
The Unthanks - Molly Drake album
Wow, I was unaware about his sister. Thanks for the heads up and as always the nice words.
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Yeah!! Thanks so much for this!
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