Nick Drake Fruit Tree 3LP Box Set Five Leaves Pink Moon
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Limited To Only 2,000 Copies! Sealed!
When Fruit Tree, the box set containing the three LPs songwriter Nick Drake issued during his lifetime, first appeared in 1979, five years after his death, it was one of the first box set retrospectives — if not the first — released on a contemporary artist. His three albums, Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter, and Pink Moon, were completely ignored by the marketplace at the time of their respective releases. Joe Boyd, Drake's friend, producer, A&R man, and patron, felt that word about Drake had spread in the ensuing years after his death from the folk community to a new group of punters who were picking up the LPs in bigger numbers. (When Boyd sold his Witchseason Productions imprint to Island in 1972, one of the conditions was that Drake's recordings never be allowed to go out of print.) The set came with a beautiful book with great notes and the complete lyrics. Fruit Tree underwent a previous reissue on compact disc, with a bonus disc of rarities called Time of No Reply that included four more songs Drake recorded after 1972's Pink Moon for a new album — according to Boyd — and other rarities. In 2000, after the release of a Volkswagen commercial that featured the song "Pink Moon," Drake was discovered again by an entirely new generation of kids hungry for that lean and lonely sound. Universal, which owned Island by this time, remastered and re-released all three studio recordings. In 2004, Made to Love Magic, a single-disc set that was full of remixes and rarities such as the four cuts from Time of No Reply, hit the streets with one bonus. A new song, "Too Low," from the very same recording sessions that produced the other four, had been discovered by engineer John Wood on the original master tape. Made to Love Magic was thus a bittersweet purchase for Drake collectors who had virtually everything else here except that one song.
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