Nick Drake - Family Tree
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Artist: Nick DrakeEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-07-10
Music Label: Tsunami Label Group
Soundtracks:
- Come in to the Garden (Introduction) - Nick Drake, Drake, Nick
- They're Leaving Me Behind - Nick Drake, Drake, Nick
- Time Piece - Nick Drake, Drake, Nick
- Poor Mum - Nick Drake, Drake, Molly
- Winter Is Gone - Nick Drake, Traditional
- All My Trials - Nick Drake, Traditional
- Mozart's Kegelstatt Trio - Nick Drake, Mozart, Wolfgang Am
- Strolling Down the Highway - Nick Drake, Jansch, Bert
- Cocaine Blues - Nick Drake, Traditional
- Blossom - Nick Drake, Drake, Nick
- Been Smoking Too Long - Nick Drake, Frederick, Robin
- Black Mountain Blues - Nick Drake, Traditional
- Tomorrow Is a Long Time - Nick Drake, Dylan, Bob
- If You Leave Me - Nick Drake, Traditional
- Here Comes the Blues - Nick Drake, Frank, Jackson C.
- Sketch, Pt. 1 - Nick Drake, Drake, Nick
- Blues Run the Game - Nick Drake, Frank, Jackson C.
- My Baby's So Sweet - Nick Drake, Fuller, Blind Boy
- Milk and Honey - Nick Drake, Frank, Jackson C.
- Kimbie - Nick Drake, Frank, Jackson C.
- Bird Flew By - Nick Drake, Drake, Nick
- Rain - Nick Drake, Drake, Nick
- Strange Meeting, Pt. 2 - Nick Drake, Drake, Nick
- Day Is Done - Nick Drake, Drake, Nick
- Come into the Garden - Nick Drake, Drake, Nick
- Way to Blue - Nick Drake, Drake, Nick
- Do You Ever Remember? - Nick Drake, Drake, Nick
Music reviews of Family Tree
Music Review: Going Back in Time
Rating: 5 Stars
Nick Drake's material has been packaged and repackaged extensively, but this is one posthumous release that truly provides fresh insight into his development as an artist. Comprised mostly of home demos and mixing in a generous helping of recordings of his mother, as well, this collection feels almost like a time portal, as though we've been given passage back into Nick's early life. I love the imperfections that go along with it; a flubbed lyric or dropped note here or there, his little commentaries at the end of some pieces, the sound of someone clanking a bottle in the kitchen behind him on one track. You feel like you're in the Drake's living room, and yet it doesn't just seem like the cannibalization of material from before Nick had fully emerged as an artist. There are some amazing and beautiful tracks here, including "They're Leaving Me Behind," "Winter is Gone," and even the brief "Sketch I." All the talent as a singer and player is there, just in a raw, early form. And the liner notes from his sister are a touching addition to the package.
Maybe not the best option for introducing yourself to Nick Drake's music (I might pick "Pink Moon" for that), but definitely a must-own for anyone who already calls themselves a fan.
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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