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Podcast: The Colin McEnroe Show
Episode: The music and mystery of Nick and Molly Drake
Description: The singer and songwriter Nick Drake died in 1974. He was just 26, and he remains a bit of a mystery. He recorded three albums but played very few shows. There is no known film or video footage of him. But his music is maybe more popular now than it’s ever been. It shows up on movie soundtracks, in TV shows, in commercials. And then there’s Nick Drake’s mother, Molly Drake. It turns out she was an accomplished (and possibly ultimately important?) singer and songwriter, too. But she never released any music or performed public...