Fruit Tree (Nick Drake album)
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Fruit Tree is a box set by English
England
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 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...

. It now exists in several versions, all of which feature his three studio albums, plus additional material.

1979 Release

The 1979 release consisted of a box set of three LPs with new artwork. The first two were as listed below. The third was Pink Moon, track listing as below plus the last four songs of what later (1986 release) became Time of No Reply.

This version was released on Island Records
Island Records
Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...

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1986 Release

The 1986 release was a 4 LP/CD release, and had the track listing as given below. It was released the same year as the separate Time of No Reply
Time of No Reply
Time of No Reply is a 1986 compilation album featuring outtakes and alternative versions of songs by English folk singer Nick Drake. It was also included as the fourth disc of the 1986 version of the Nick Drake box set Fruit Tree.-Track listing:...

album.

This version was released on Hannibal Records
Hannibal Records
Hannibal Records was a record label and one of the first to work with the World music genre.Hannibal was started by Joe Boyd in 1980. Boyd had produced records by artists such as Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention and released recordings by these artists as well as...

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2007 Release

The 2007 release features Drake's three studio albums (as per the first three albums of the 1986 release), plus A Skin Too Few DVD.

This version was released on Island Records
Island Records
Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...

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Disc One: Five Leaves Left

  1. "Time Has Told Me" - 4:27
  2. "River Man
    River Man
    "River Man" is the second listed song from Nick Drake's 1969 album Five Leaves Left, remastered and released as a single in 2004. According to Drake's manager, Joe Boyd, Drake thought of the song as the centre piece of the album....

    " - 4:21
  3. "Three Hours" - 6:16
  4. "Way to Blue" - 3:05
  5. "Day Is Done" - 2:22
  6. "'Cello Song" - 3:58
  7. "The Thoughts of Mary Jane" - 3:12
  8. "Man in a Shed" - 3:49
  9. "Fruit Tree" - 4:42
  10. "Saturday Sun" - 4:00

Disc Two: Bryter Layter

  1. "Introduction" - 1:33
  2. "Hazey Jane II" - 3:46
  3. "At the Chime of a City Clock" - 4:47
  4. "One of These Things First" - 4:52
  5. "Hazey Jane I" - 4:31
  6. "Bryter Layter" - 3:24
  7. "Fly" - 3:00
  8. "Poor Boy" - 6:09
  9. "Northern Sky
    Northern Sky
    Northern Sky is a song from Nick Drake's 1970 album Bryter Layter. The song, written in DADGDG tuning, features piano, organ and celesta, performed by former Velvet Underground member, John Cale....

    " - 3:47
  10. "Sunday" - 3:42

Disc Three: Pink Moon

  1. "Pink Moon
    Pink Moon
    Pink Moon is the third and final album by English musician Nick Drake. It was recorded at midnight in two separate two-hour sessions, over two days in October 1971, featuring only Nick Drake's vocals and guitar, as well as some piano later overdubbed by Drake on the title track.-Album...

    " - 2:06
  2. "Place to Be" - 2:44
  3. "Road" - 2:02
  4. "Which Will" - 2:59
  5. "Horn" - 1:23
  6. "Things Behind the Sun" - 3:56
  7. "Know" - 2:27
  8. "Free Ride" - 3:36
  9. "Parasite" - 3:05
  10. "Harvest Breed" - 1:38
  11. "From the Morning" - 2:31


Note: In the 3 LP 1979 version, this disc additionally included the last four tracks of the disc below.

Disc Four (1986): Time of No Reply

  1. "Time of No Reply" - 2:47
  2. "I Was Made to Love Magic
    Magic (Nick Drake song)
    "Magic" is the second listed song from Nick Drake's 2004 compilation album Made to Love Magic and was remastered and released as a single in 2004...

    " - 3:28
  3. "Joey" - 3:06
  4. "Clothes of Sand" - 2:32
  5. "Man in a Shed" (Demo) - 3:06
  6. "Mayfair" - 2:33
  7. "Fly" (Demo) - 3:37
  8. "The Thoughts of Mary Jane" (Demo) - 3:46
  9. "Been Smoking Too Long" - 2:17
  10. "Strange Meeting II" - 3:38
  11. "Rider on the Wheel" - 2:33
  12. "Black Eyed Dog" (Demo) - 3:28
  13. "Hanging on a Star" - 2:49
  14. "Voice From the Mountain" - 2:12

Disc Four (2007): Skin Too Few (DVD)

  1. Skin Too Few (The Days of Nick Drake) (biographical film)
  2. Introduction
  3. Hazey Jane I
  4. How Wild the Wind Blows
  5. River Man
  6. At the Chime of a City Clock
  7. Day Is Done
  8. Know
  9. Hanging on a Star
  10. From the Morning
  11. Northern Sky
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