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Nick Drake - Time Has Told Me Audio CD

A fair review of the Nick Drake "Time Has Told Me" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Nick Drake reviews here, or go back to the Nick Drake tabs.

Nick Drake Band: Nick Drake
Title: Time Has Told Me
Rating:
Release Date: 2005-05-03
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Get Together 2: Been Smoking Too Long 3: Don't Think Twice It's All Right 4: If You Leave Me Pretty Mama 5: Courting Blues 6: My Sugar So Sweet 7: Strolling Down the Highway 8: Blues Run the Game 9: Winter Is Gone 10: Here Come the Blues 11: All My Trails 12: Tomorrow Is Such a Long Time 13: Cocaine Blues 14: Milk and Honey 15: Summertime 16: Black Mountain Blues 17: Nick's Monologue 18: Strange Meeting I/Bird Flew By 19: To the Garden 20: Joey 21: Rain 22: Blossom 23: Time Has Told Me 24: Saturday Sun 25: Thoughts of Mary Jane 26: Day Is Done 27: Fly 28: Place to Be 29: Hazey Jane 30: Parasite 31: Parasite 32: Brittle Days I 33: Brittle Days II 34: Poor Boy 35: Time Has Told Me 36: Work in Progress 3 37: Voice from the Mountain 38: Brittle Days III 39: Far Leys 40: Brittle Days III 41: Work in Progress 7 42: Impromptu Sound Check 43: Black Eyed Dog 44: Rider on the Wheel

Time has told me volume 1 - 2cd
Ok - this is worth getting

There might be the odd track missing from other bootlegs like Saturday Sun and Tanworth in Arden II, the odd guitar piece or piano instrumental Nick was working on

But this is good if you're a Nick fan - try to find volume 2 of this (Time has told me volume 2 - out on Schoolkid Records) as that has the 2 tracks from the BBC Peel sessions (Three hours, Time has told me) - albeit incomplete (seem to come from a reel to reel - "off air" recording)

I think if you like Nick you'll rather like this - though pick up the 3 studio albums first if you've not heard any Nick at all (why they can't just be rereleased on 2cds I can't imagine. they did that with the 3 Nazz albums.


The Complete Home Recordings...
The back of the CD states that all material is previously unreleased in this form. This 44 song collection contains the complete home recordings of Nick Drake. The songs on disc one are primarily other songwriters' material and are also available on the CD titled "Tanworth In Arden 1967-68". Disc one also contains a track titled "Nick's Monologue" which is three minutes of Drake speaking into his tape recorder, interesting to hear simply because it is the only known recording of Drake speaking. Also noteworthy is the version of "Joey" which Drake performs on a twelve string guitar for the first and only time according to the liner notes. Disc two contains studio recordings of "Time Has Told Me", "Saturday Sun", and "Thoughts of Mary Jane" and guitar tracks of "Black Eyed Dog" and "Rider On The Wheel". The majority of disc two consists of home recordings of Drake's original music. One of my favorites is the version of "Place To Be", which has a guitar part that is radically different than the studio version on the "Pink Moon" album. The fingerpicking on this version is unbelievable in its precision and I only wish that film existed of Drake playing so I could see it with my own eyes. There are two home versions of "Parasite" included which document Drake's experimentation with the guitar arrangement for the song. In addition, there are several different versions of an instrumental titled "Brittle Days" which Drake plays variations of on piano and guitar. I had read of his meticulous work on his music and the repeated versions of this instrumental are proof of the tinkering he did with his songs. The package contains brief liner notes written by guitarist Scott Appel. I admit that I am a Nick Drake completist and bought this mainly to hear more of his guitar work than is otherwise available. Due to the high price of this CD I doubt that someone unfamiliar with Nick Drake's music would purchase this collection, but as a general warning to the uninitiated these are demos of varying sound quality and I wouldn't recommend this to a newcomer to Nick Drake. If you are a die hard fan though, this is a worthwhile purchase. .


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