Family Tree (Nick Drake album)

Family Tree is a 2007 compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 of home recordings by English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 singer/songwriter Nick Drake

Nick Drake

Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Though he is best known for his sombre guitar based songs, Drake was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone...

. The album is notable for the appearance of Nick's sister, Gabrielle

Gabrielle Drake

Gabrielle Drake is a British actress who was born in Lahore, British India and lived in several Far Eastern countries .-Career:...

, on one track and the contribution of two original songs performed by Nick's mother, Molly Drake. Recorded before the release of his first album Five Leaves Left

Five Leaves Left

Five Leaves Left, recorded in 1969, was the first of three albums by British folk musician Nick Drake. Like Bryter Layter but unlike Pink Moon, this album contains no completely solo songs...

, most of the tracks on the album circulated on bootleg

Bootleg recording

A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority. The process of making and distributing such recordings is known as bootlegging...

s in the years before official release due to the generosity of Drake's family in sharing them with fans. The album reached #35 on Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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s Top Independent Albums chart, making it Drake's first album to chart in America.

Track listing

All songs written and performed by Nick Drake

Nick Drake

Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Though he is best known for his sombre guitar based songs, Drake was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone...

 except where noted.

1. "Come In To The Garden (introduction)" - 0:31
2. "They're Leaving Me Behind" - 3:16
3. "Time Piece" - 0:43
4. "Poor Mum" performed by Molly Drake - 1:38
5. "Winter Is Gone" (Traditional) - 2:42
6. "All My Trials
   All My Trials
   All My Trials was a folk song during the social protest movements of the 1950s and 1960s. It is based on a Bahamian lullaby that tells the story of a mother on her death bed, comforting her children, "Hush little baby, don't you cry./You know your mama's bound to die," because, as she explains,...
   
   " (Traditional) (with Gabrielle Drake) - 1:55
7. "Kegelstatt Trio for clarinet, viola and piano" (Mozart) - 1:14
8. "Strolling Down the Highway" (Bert Jansch
   Bert Jansch
   Herbert "Bert" Jansch was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s, as an acoustic guitarist, as well as a singer-songwriter...
   
   ) - 2:50
9. "Paddling In Rushmere" (Traditional) - 0:24
10. "Cocaine Blues
    Cocaine Blues
    "Cocaine Blues" is a Western Swing song written by T. J. "Red" Arnall, a reworking of the traditional song "Little Sadie". This song was originally recorded by W. A. Nichol's Western Aces on the S & G label, probably in 1947, and by Roy Hogsed and the Rainbow Riders May 25, 1947, at Universal...
    
    " (Traditional) - 2:59
11. "Blossom" - 2:41
12. "Been Smokin' Too Long" (Robin Frederick) - 2:13
13. "Black Mountain Blues" (Traditional) - 2:37
14. "Tomorrow is a Long Time
    Tomorrow Is a Long Time
    "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" is a song written and recorded by Bob Dylan. Dylan's version first appeared on the Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume II compilation, released in 1971...
    
    " (Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
    
    ) - 3:40
15. "If You Leave Me" (Dave Van Ronk
    Dave Van Ronk
    Dave Van Ronk was an American folk singer, born in Brooklyn, New York, who settled in Greenwich Village, New York, and was eventually nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street" ....
    
    ) - 2:04
16. "Here Come The Blues" (Jackson C. Frank
    Jackson C. Frank
    Jackson Carey Frank was an American folk musician.-Early life:When Jackson Frank was 11, a furnace exploded at his school, sending a ball of flames down corridors until it ended up in Frank's music classroom in the Cleveland Hill Elementary School in Cheektowaga, New York...
    
    ) - 3:53
17. "Sketch 1" - 0:59
18. "Blues Run The Game" (Jackson C. Frank) - 2:25
19. "My Baby So Sweet" (Traditional) (Not on every version of the album) - 1:45
20. "Milk And Honey" (Jackson C. Frank) - 3:00
21. "Kimbie" (Jackson C. Frank) - 3:26
22. "Bird Flew By" - 2:54
23. "Rain" - 3:07
24. "Strange Meeting II" - 4:27
25. "Day Is Done" - 2:20
26. "Come Into The Garden" - 1:59
27. "Way to Blue" - 2:51
28. "Do You Ever Remember?" performed by Molly Drake - 1:37

The Sunbeam 2LP (UK) edition, and the iTunes full album download, include the song "Betty and Dupree" (2:17) as track 8, displacing the rest of the track list accordingly.

Personnel

Nick Drake performs vocals and acoustic guitar except on those performed by Molly Drake. Gabrielle Drake and Molly Drake appear as noted.