“Reckless Jane”, a previously unheard track written by Nick Drake with musician and friend Beverley Martyn, was released April 2nd. Started just months before Drake died, the two wrote the lyrics to the folk song together and first began working on the music during a jam session in Martyn’s home in Hastings.
It lay half-finished until Martyn, ex-wife of guitarist John Martyn, decided to complete the song last year for her new album. The pair worked on the song during the spring of 1974, when Martyn was 27 and Drake around the age of 25, shortly before his death.
The song’s character Jane is partly based on Martyn and other female ‘muses’, two of which were called Jane.
Martyn’s new album, The Phoenix and the Turtle, is released on 22 April.
More on Beverley Martyn here
http://www.nickdrake.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nick-Drake/119614091478627
http://www.beverleymartyn.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Beverley-Martyn/226739960771042
https://twitter.com/beverley_martyn
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