Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left - Vinyl Record LP 180g*
Nick Drake was just 20 when he recorded Five Leaves Left, released by Island in 1969. Producer Joe Boyd paired his intricate fingerpicking and hushed, intimate voice with string arrangements by Drake's university friend Robert Kirby, plus Richard Thompson's guitar and Danny Thompson's double bass, creating a debut that sounds both delicate and fully formed.
"River Man", with its sweeping Harry Robinson strings, is the album's centerpiece, while "Time Has Told Me", "Way To Blue" and "Fruit Tree" carry a quiet melancholy that would only be fully appreciated years after his death. "Three Hours" and "Day Is Done" lean into darker, jazzier moods. It is now regarded as one of the defining records of British folk.
This 180-gram European import comes in a gatefold jacket with inner sleeve and labels mirroring the original 1969 release. A must-have for collectors of classic singer-songwriter records.
Side A
1. Time Has Told Me
2. River Man
3. Three Hours
4. Way To Blue
5. Day Is Done
Side B
1. 'Cello Song
2. The Thoughts Of Mary Jane
3. Man In A Shed
4. Fruit Tree
5. Saturday Sun
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Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left - Vinyl Record LP 180g*
