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Artist | The Unthanks
Title | Diversions Vol. 4: The Songs And Poems Of Molly Drake
Genre | Folk Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 50:35
Label | Rabble Rouser Music Store | 2017
Catalog | RRM016 Rip | 2017
Bitrate | 210 kbps Size | 81.34 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. What Can A Song Do To You 4:52
02. Dream Your Dreams 2:06
03. Martha 0:59
04. How Wild The Wind Blows 2:50
05. Little Weaver Bird 4:16
06. Bird In The Blue 3:25
07. The Road To The Stars 3:23
08. Set Me Free 4:09
09. Words In May 1:59
10. I Remember 4:03
11. Never Pine For The Old Love 4:32
12. The Shell 0:58
13. Soft Shelled Crabs 2:44
14. Do You Ever Remember 3:09
15. The First Day 7:10
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British folk group the Unthanks took shape in 2004 under a different name,
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset. Formed by sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank,
the Winterset released two albums and earned a loyal following in the U.K.
before switching monikers in 2009. With a slightly different lineup in
place - one that featured Rachel's husband, pianist Adrian McNally, as well
as fiddler Niopha Keegan and guitarist Chris Price - the Unthanks released
their debut album, "Here's The Tender Coming", that same year. The album
made a big splash in Europe, where it was named one of 2009's best releases
by Mojo.
The fourth installment in the eclectic English folk group's fascinating
Diversions series (previous entries have dissected the music and styles of
Robert Wyatt and Antony & the Johnsons, working-class marching bands, and
England's history of shipbuilding), "Diversions, Vol. 4: The Songs And
Poems Of Molly Drake" sees the Unthanks covering a selection of works by
the mother of one of British folk's greatest exports, Nick Drake. Molly
Drake, who was a huge musical influence on her son, never released any of
her home recordings during her lifetime, though an eponymous compilation of
her songs and poems was issued in 2013 via Squirrel Thing Records.
Like Nick, Molly was a deft weaver of atmosphere, and her words and music
lend themselves well to The Unthanks' particular brand of spectral,
contemporary English folk music - much of the poetry and spoken word bits
were performed by Molly's daughter Gabrielle. Minimal, yet brimming over
with emotions both bright and dulled by pain and loss, the 15-track set is
a marvel of restraint and refinement, with Rachel and Becky Unthank's
otherworldly voices accompanied only by piano and violin. The songs
themselves, which Drake wrote and recorded during the 50s, are very much of
their time, postcards of a cautiously hopeful post-war Britain, peppered
with nostalgia and open to despair.
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