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“WE WANTED THE SONGS TURNED INSIDE-OUT!”

THE idea that Nick Drake would have a legacy might have seemed unlikely in 1974, when only Nick Kent’s outspoken NME obituary marked his passing. But since Molly Drake’s death in 1993, Gabrielle Drake and Cally Calloman have worked diligently and sensitively to embellish his short life and slender body of work with archival albums such as A Treasury (2004) and Family Tree (2007) as well as 2014’s coffee-table volume, Remembered For A While.

The latest attempt to deepen the possibilities of Drake’s music, finds a disparate collection of artists radically

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