Five Leaves Left

Infobox Album | Name = Five Leaves Left
Type = Album
Artist = Nick Drake


Released = September 1, 1969
Recorded = July 1968 - July 1969 at Sound Techniques Studio, London
Genre = Folk
Length = 41:43
Label = Island Records
Producer = Joe Boyd
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:i1uf6j7771w0 link]
*"Entertainment Weekly" (A)
* Adrian Denning rating-10|10 [http://www.adriandenning.co.uk/drake.html#fll link]
Last album =
This album = "Five Leaves Left"
(1969)
Next album = "Bryter Layter"
(1970)|

"Five Leaves Left", recorded in 1969, was the first of three albums by British folk musician Nick Drake.

Like "Bryter Layter" and unlike "Pink Moon", this album contains no completely solo songs. Nick was accompanied by members of the British folk-rock group Fairport Convention.

Reception and influence

"Five Leaves Left" was ranked 85th in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time.

The website [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net "Acclaimedmusic"] collates recommendations of albums and recording artists. The site credits Nick Drake as number 91 in "Artist Rank" and "Five Leaves Left" as number 160 in "All Time Rank" of albums. NME (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #74 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'

Q magazine (11/99, p.162) - Included in Q Magazine's Best Folk Albums of All Time - "The pinnacle of a melancholy canon of work so distinctive that admirers can only speculate miserably on what might have been." Entertainment Weekly (5/12/00, p.24) - "On his ageless debut, everything - Drake's lispy voice and delicate guitar fingerpicking, arranger Robert Kirby's stately strings - feels shrouded in mist....Drake's most glorious miniatures." - Rating: A

Alternative Press (3/01, p.88) - "With a voice paradoxically feather-light and grave, [one] of the most beautiful and melancholy albums ever recorded." Mojo (7/00, p.99) - "Represents the first flourish of promise....God, how damn confident it all sounds. He knew how good he was."

Track listing

All songs written by Nick Drake
# "Time Has Told Me" – 4:27
# "River Man" – 4:21
# "Three Hours" – 6:16
# "Way to Blue" – 3:11
# "Day Is Done" – 2:29
# "'Cello Song" – 4:49
# "The Thoughts of Mary Jane" – 3:22
# "Man in a Shed" – 3:55
# "Fruit Tree" – 4:50
# "Saturday Sun" – 4:03

Personnel

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

*"Time Has Told Me"
Paul Harris - piano

Richard Thompson - electric guitar

Danny Thompson - bass guitar

*"River Man"
Harry Robinson - string arrangement

*"Three Hours"Danny Thompson - bass

Rocki Dzidzornu - congas

*"Way to Blue"
Robert Kirby - string arrangement

*"Day Is Done"Robert Kirby - string arrangement

*"'Cello Song"
Clare Lowther - 'cello
Danny Thompson - bass
Rocki Dzidzornu - congas

*"The Thoughts of Mary Jane"Robert Kirby - arrangement

*"Man in a Shed"Paul Harris - piano
Danny Thompson - bass

*"Fruit Tree"Robert Kirby - arrangement

*"Saturday Sun"Nick Drake - piano
Danny Thompson - bass

Tristram Fry - drums & vibraphone

Citations

External links

*MusicBrainz album|id=2c0388da-5dd2-4228-a52e-2e1b4be8b23c|name=Five Leaves Left