Made to Love Magic is a 2004 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 out-takes and remix

Remix

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ed tracks

Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

 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 is notable for featuring a previously unreleased solo

Solo (music)

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 acoustic

Acoustic music

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 version of "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....

", dating from early 1968, and the song "Tow the Line", a previously unheard song from Drake's final session in July 1974.

Track listing

All songs are written 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...

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1. "Rider on the Wheel"
2. "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...
   
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3. "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....
   
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4. "Joey"
5. "Thoughts of Mary Jane"
6. "Mayfair"
7. "Hanging on a Star"
8. "Three Hours"
9. "Clothes of Sand"
10. "Voices"
11. "Time of No Reply"
12. "Black Eyed Dog"
13. "Tow the Line"

Notes

• Tracks 1, 4, 5, 9 & 12 are stereo remasters from 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:...
  
  
• Track 2 is "I Was Made to Love Magic" from Time of No Reply, sped-up, with a posthumously added string arrangement by Robert Kirby
  Robert Kirby
  Robert Kirby was a British born arranger of string sections for rock and folk music. He is best known for his work on the Nick Drake albums, Five Leaves Left and Bryter Layter, but has also worked with Elton John, Ralph McTell, Strawbs, Paul Weller and Elvis Costello.-At Cambridge:Patrick...
  
  
• Tracks 3 and 6 are Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
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  -era dorm demos (Spring 1968)
• Track 7 is a different take than the version originally released on Time of No Reply (July 1974)
• Track 8 is a different take than the version originally released on 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...
  
  featuring Rebop Kwaku Baah
  Rebop Kwaku Baah
  Anthony "Reebop" Kwaku Baah was a Ghanaian percussionist perhaps best known for working with the 1970s rock groups Traffic and Can.-Biography:...
  
   on congas (March 1969)
• Track 10 is a remastered version of "Voice from the Mountain" from Time of No Reply
• Track 11 has a posthumously added string arrangement by Robert Kirby
• Track 13 is possibly the last song Drake ever committed to tape (July 1974)

Personnel

Nick Drake performs vocals and acoustic guitar on all songs, except where indicated otherwise.