Nick Drake - Fruit Tree (4 CD Box Set) - 1986

Genre: contemporary folk-rock
Country of disc production: EU
Year of release: 1986
Year of publication: 1986
Publisher (label): Hannibal / Rykodisc
Catalog number: HNCD 5402
Format: 4xCD, 4xAlbum, Box Set
Country of artist (band): pic UK
Audio codec: FLAC (*.flac)
Rip type: tracks+.cue
Audio bitrate: lossless

Tracklist:
Disc: 1
1. Time Has Told Me
2. River Man
3. Three Hours
4. Way To Blue
5. Day Is Done
6. 'Cello Song
7. The Thoughts Of Mary Jane
8. Man In A Shed
9. Fruit Tree
10. Saturday Sun

Disc: 2
1. Introduction
2. Hazy Jane II
3. At The Chime Of A City Clock
4. One Of These Things First
5. Hazey Jane I
6. Bryter Layter
7. Fly
8. Poor Boy
9. Northern Sky
10. Sunday

Disc: 3
1. Pink Moon
2. Place To Be
3. Road
4. Which Will
5. Horn
6. Things Behind The Sun
7. Know
8. Parasite
9. Ride
10. Harvest Breed
11. From The Morning

Disc: 4
1. Time Of No Reply
2. I Was Made To Love Magic
3. Joey
4. Clothes Of Sand
5. Man In A Shed
6. Mayfair
7. Fly
8. The Thoughts Of Mary Jane
9. Been Smoking Too Long
10. Strange Meeting II
11. Rider On The Wheel
12. Black Eyed Dog
13. Hanging On A Star
14. Voice From The Mountain

Three albums. That's all singer/songwriter Nick Drake left the world before he passed away in 1974 at the age of 26. But what a three albums they were. This four-CD box set contains all of it, including some stuff Drake didn't intend for public consumption. Of course, everything he touched--even the demos and alternate takes--is gorgeous, melancholy folk at its finest. From the haunting, baroque beauty of his debut, Five Leaves Left, through to his pop masterpiece Bryter Layter, to his last public offering, the dark and lonely Pink Moon, Drake shines. The outtake album Time of No Reply features Drake rarities and demos, including a version of "Thoughts of Mary Jane" with Richard Thompson on electric guitar. In an age when more singer/songwriters and folk artists get compared to Drake--Elliott Smith, Belle & Sebastian and Mark Eitzel, to name but three--it's enlightening to look back and hear the original. Here's your best chance