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The Making of Five Leaves Left

From £88.99

RELEASE DATE 25th JULY 2025

4LP Boxset – Cat:7762691   Barcode:602577626913
4CD Boxset –  Cat:7762697   Barcode:602577626975

Record Label: UMR

Format: Album

Genre: Singer / Songwriter

Release Date: 25/07/2025

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Description

The Making Of Five Leaves Left includes unaccompanied demos, studio outtakes and previously unheard songs that tell the story of how Nick Drake’s debut album ‘Five Leaves Left’ came to be released on Island Records in 1969.

These Nick Drake Estate authorised 4LP & 4CD editions comprise over 30 previously unheard outtakes from the sessions, compiled across three discs. The final disc to complete the package is the original Joe Boyd produced album. The whole set has been mastered by John Wood.

Accompanied by a 60 page book printed on special textured paper stock, written by Neil Storey in collaboration with Richard Morton-Jack, complete with full track recording details, charts and recording history.

Track Listing

4LP

DISC ONE – 1st Sound Techniques Session aka The Beverley Martyn demo & Alt Takes from February 1968 to April 1969

Side A

  1. Mayfair – 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
  2. Time Has Told Me – 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
  3. Man In A Shed- 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
  4. Fruit Tree – 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
  5. Saturday Sun – 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
  6. Strange Face – 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968

Side B

  1. Strange Face – Rough Mix with Guide Vocal – September 1968
  2. Day Is Done – Take 5 – April 1968
  3. Day Is Done – Take 2 – November 1968
  4. Day Is Done – Take 7 – April 1969
  5. Man In A Shed – Take 1 – May 1968
  6. My Love Left With The Rain – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968

DISC TWO – Paul de Rivas Reel – October 1968 / Out-Takes November 1968

Side C

  1. Blossom – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
  2. Instrumental – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
  3. Made To Love Magic – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
  4. Mickey’s Tune – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
  5. The Thoughts of Mary Jane – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
  6. Day Is Done – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
  7. Time Has Told Me – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968

Side D

  1. Three Hours – Take 2 – November 1968
  2. Time Has Told Me – Take 4 – November 1968
  3. Strange Face – Take 1 – November 1968
  4. Saturday Sun – Take 1 – November 1968
  5. Fruit Tree – Take 4 – November 1968

DISC THREE – Outtakes from December 1968 to April 1969

Side E

  1. Time of No Reply – Take 3 into Take 4 – December 1968
  2. ‘Cello Song – Take 4 – January 1969
  3. Mayfair – Take 5 – January 1969
  4. River Man – Take 1 – January 1969

Side F

  1. Way To Blue – Cambridge – Winter 1968
  2. The Thoughts of Mary Jane – Take 2 – April 1969
  3. Saturday Sun – Take 1 into Take 2 – April 1969
  4. River Man – Take 2 – April 1969

DISC FOUR – The Original Album – Released 3rd July 1969

Side G

  1. Time Has Told Me
  2. River Man
  3. Three Hours
  4. Way To Blue
  5. Day Is Done

Side H

  1. ‘Cello Song
  2. The Thoughts of Mary Jane
  3. Man In A Shed
  4. Fruit Tree
  5. Saturday Sun

4CD

DISC ONE – 1st Sound Techniques Session aka The Beverley Martyn demo & Alt Takes from February 1968 to April 1969

  1. Mayfair – 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
  2. Time Has Told Me – 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
  3. Man In A Shed- 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
  4. Fruit Tree – 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
  5. Saturday Sun – 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
  6. Strange Face – 1st Sound Techniques Session – March 1968
  7. Strange Face – Rough Mix with Guide Vocal – September 1968
  8. Day Is Done – Take 5 – April 1968
  9. Day Is Done – Take 2 – November 1968
  10. Day Is Done – Take 7 – April 1969
  11. Man In A Shed – Take 1 – May 1968
  12. My Love Left With The Rain – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968

DISC TWO – Paul de Rivas Reel – October 1968 / Out-Takes November 1968

  1. Blossom – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
  2. Instrumental – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
  3. Made To Love Magic – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
  4. Mickey’s Tune – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
  5. The Thoughts of Mary Jane – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
  6. Day Is Done – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
  7. Time Has Told Me – Cambridge, Lent Term 1968
  8. Three Hours – Take 2 – November 1968
  9. Time Has Told Me – Take 4 – November 1968
  10. Strange Face – Take 1 – November 1968
  11. Saturday Sun – Take 1 – November 1968
  12. Fruit Tree – Take 4 – November 1968

DISC THREE – Out-Takes from December 1968 to April 1969

  1. Time of No Reply – Take 3 into Take 4 – December 1968
  2. ‘Cello Song – Take 4 – January 1969
  3. Mayfair – Take 5 – January 1969
  4. River Man – Take 1 – January 1969
  5. Way To Blue – Cambridge – Winter 1968
  6. The Thoughts of Mary Jane – Take 2 – April 1969
  7. Saturday Sun – Take 1 into Take 2 – April 1969
  8. River Man – Take 2 – April 1969

DISC FOUR – The Original Album – Released 3rd July 1969

  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
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