Nick Drake - Family Tree
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Artist: Nick DrakeEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Special Edition
CD Release Date: 2009-04-14
Music Label: Ume Imports
Soundtracks:
- Come in to the Garden (Introduction)
- They're Leaving Me Behind
- Time Piece
- Poor Mum - Molly Drake
- Winter Is Gone
- All My Trials - Gabrielle Drake, Nick Drake
- Mozart's Kegelstatt Trio - The Family Trio
- Strolling Down the Highway
- Paddling in Rushmere
- Cocaine Blues
- Blossom
- Been Smoking Too Long
- Black Mountain Blues
- Tomorrow Is a Long Time
- If You Leave Me
- Here Comes the Blues
- Sketch, Pt. 1
- Blues Run the Game
- My Baby's So Sweet
- Milk and Honey
- Kimbie
- Bird Flew By
- Rain
- Strange Meeting, Pt. 2
- Day Is Done
- Come into the Garden
- Way to Blue
- Do You Ever Remember? - Molly Drake
Music reviews of Family Tree
Music Review: Fantastic
Rating: 5 Stars
'There's beauty in the silver singing river,
There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky,
None of these can match the beauty
that I remember in my true lover's eyes'
I think this song "Tomorrow Is A Long Time" was a Dylan tune originally though it's been done by countless others, among them Elvis Presley, Rod Stewart and Sandy Denny and I'm sure a whole lot more. But Nick Drake's soulful reworking of the song into soft country blues just opens it up! Incredible. Although you can hear someone tinkling the glasses in the background. "All My Trials" is another standard redone with new life and beautiful effect - must be Molly Drake accompanying him on the harmony - so soothing. There are too many good pieces to mention on this album, and I think it is as fair a place as any to start, or continue, with Nick Drake. Fans of this album would like Dave Van Ronk's "Inside Dave Van Ronk" (1962). Drake was obviously influenced by him, and he is worth hearing in his own right. Also worth checking out if you get the chance, though in a different vein of folk, is Roy Harper, a contemporary of Drake's, not a predecessor ("Stormcock", "Valentine", "Flat, Baroque and Berserk", etc). Anyway, Family Tree is wonderful. With 28 songs here, there's a lot to discover and recognize in new form. This one works for naps on rainy days as well.
There's a chunky liner notes booklet included. His sister, in the form of a letter to her deceased brother, gives a pretty vivid background to what was going on with the family Nick came from, its history, passion and pastimes. Interesting.
Description of Family Tree
2007 rarities collection from one of the most influential UK Folk artists of all time. Family Tree tells the story of Nick Drake's musical development in the years prior to his debut album Five Leaves Left in 1969. It features lo-fi recordings made on a reel-to-reel tape recorder at his home, Far Leys in Tanworth In Arden, as well as eight songs recorded on cassette during his sojourn in Aix En Provence. The inclusion of two songs by his mother Molly Drake bears testament to her influence on her son. His final performances on Family Tree, 'Day Is Done' and 'Way To Blue', recorded by his Cambridge friend and arranger Robert Kirby are the end of one story and the beginning of another. Family Tree comprises mostly other people's compositions: the Folk and Blues tunes used by many a young guitarist in the '60s, attempting to master the fretboard. Nick played Jackson C. Frank, Bert Jansch, Dave Van Ronk and, of course, Bob Dylan. Booklet printed on 'bible ' paper for initial pressings only! 28 tracks. Island.You'd think there wouldn't be much more to present by a songwriter who recorded three albums in his lifetime and has been dead since 1974. However, interest in Nick Drake's riveting music has grown enormously in the new millennium. Rarities were added to a number of posthumous collections, but with Family Tree his estate has brought forth an hour of music that predates his first album, Five Leaves Left. This set illuminates Drake's musical background, with his mother and sister appearing, and even Drake himself on clarinet for a Mozart trio. He covers traditional numbers as well as songs by Dylan, Blind Boy Fuller, and Jackson C. Frank. There are clear links to his own early compositions, including a couple early versions that appeared on his debut. Some of this has circulated on bootlegs over the years, but here assembled and sonically polished, it radiates with warmth. Recorded in casual circumstances, there are bits of chatter and laughter between songs, painting a picture of a happy, loving home scene. --David Greenberger
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