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Track Listing 1. Come In To the Gardern (Introduction) 2. They're Leaving Me Behind 3. Time Piece 4. Poor Mum 5. Winter is Gone 6. All My Trials 7. Mozart's Kegelstatt Trio For Clarinet, Viola and Piano 8. Strolling Down the Highway 9. Paddling In Rushmere 10. Cocaine Blues 11. Blossom 12. Been Smoking Too Long 13. Black Mountain Blues 14. Tomorrow is a Long Time 15. If You Leave Me 16. Here Come the Blues 17. Sketch 1 18. Blues Run the Game 19. My Baby So Sweet 20. Milk and Honey 21. Kimbie 22. Bird Flew By 23. Rain 24. Stranger Meeting Ii 25. Day is Done [Family Tree] 26. Come Into the Garden 27. Way To Blue [Family Tree] 28. Do You Ever Remember?
| Details | | Distributor: | Fontana Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Nick Drake fans, music history buffs, and people who enjoy haunting and spare folk songs sung with winsome wit and heart will rejoice at this 2007 release, a compendium of 28 never-released recordings by the late folk hero. Recorded on reel-to-reel and cassette, these tracks are primitive but warm, and include not only the young songwriter's earliest original work, but also covers of songs by his influences, like Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, Bert Jansch, and even Mozart. With only three albums as his legacy, FAMILY TREE is an important addition to the Nick Drake canon.
Industry Reviews A kind of aural home movie....The album is worth hearing for the window it opens on Drake's formative period.
[T]he 11 original compositions on the album showcase his preternatural sense of melody and a comfort for the folk idiom...
4 stars out of 5 -- FAMILY TREE is heavy on country- or folk-blues from the Warwickshire delta....Essential listening for anybody in thrall to the spell of Saint Nick.
3.5 stars out of 5 -- A polished release of oft-bootlegged home recordings....All fragile as pressed leaves...
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