Just like Nick, Molly sings as if she doesn’t want anyone to overhear.ģ. It’s hard not to hear the resemblance to Nick’s own voice: soft, careful. Or the heartbreaking final line, I had thought that we were “we” but we were “you and me.”Ģ. I remember firelight, and you remember smoke…I remember oranges, and you remember dust. She sings four memories from a couple’s life together memories which for one person are fond, but for the other are, at best, neutral. This makes the nostalgia on a song like this one even stronger.ġ. It feels like it belongs to an earlier generation, maybe Edith Piaf’s generation or even earlier. Molly’s music feels much older than the 1950s. Nick Drake’s posthumous fame, and his fans’ thirst for absolutely every musical note he ever recorded, is what eventually led the Drake estate to release the compilation album Molly Drake in 2013. Her recordings remained private, but the music that filled the house obviously had an effect on her son, Nick, who would release three records of his own. Warwickshire, that she finally recorded some of her wonderful music. They decided to move back to England while theĬhildren were still young, and it was there, in the privacy of her home in The war ended, she moved back to Rangoon with her husband,Īnd soon her children were born. She wrote some of her own songs, but never performed them, sharing her While in India, Molly and Nancy became co-hosts andĭelhi. She had just enough time to meet and marry Rodney before Japan invaded, Rodney enlisted, and she fled to India with her sister, Nancy. She was born in colonial Burma and educated at a boarding school in England before moving back to Rangoon in the late 1930s. Molly was nearing 40, with many adventures behind her, and Upstairs reading, with the muffled sound of the piano decorating the background. Her husband Rodney, anĮngineer who sometimes wrote comic operettas, operated the reel-to-reel tape. This one, at her home in a small village in England. Molly Drake composed and recorded several songs, including To have been at Molly Drake’s house during her 1950s recording sessions. If time travel were possible, there are a few times and places I wouldn’t mind visiting: Abbey Road studios, Woodstock, Nirvana’s last show – standard stops on the musical time traveler’s itinerary.īut, perhaps more than any other destination, I would love
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