Nick Drake
A Day Gone By
Home Recordings/Outtakes
2014

A Day Gone By CD > EAC > WAV > FLAC

CD One:
01: Strolling Down The Highway (Removed - Speed Corrected but in Family Tree)
02: Cocaine Blues (Removed - Family Tree)
03: Don�t Think Twice, It�s Alright
04: Betty And Dupree (Removed - Family Tree - iTunes version)
05: Get Together
06: Here Come The Blues (Removed - Family Tree)
07: Come In To The Garden (Removed - Family Tree)
08: Summertime
09: Joey
10: Strange Meeting II (Removed - Family Tree)
11: Milk And Honey (Removed - Family Tree)
12: Tomorrow Is A Long Time (Removed - Family Tree)
13: Courting Blues
14: Black Mountain Blues (Removed - Family Tree)
15: Morning Monologue
16: Saturday Sun
17: Mayfair [III]
18: Fly (Removed - Time of No Reply album)
19: Hazey Jane I
20: Place To Be [Reconstruction] [Fingerpicked]
21: Parasite [II] (Not the same as the one included in the Pink Moon album)
22: Three Hours
23: Day Is Done (Removed - Family Tree)
24: Time Of No reply (Removed - Released on The John Peel session)
25: Three Hours (Removed - Released on The John Peel session)

01-17: The Music Room, Far Leys, Tanworth In Arden. 1967/1968.

18-23: Hampstead, London. 1968/1969.

24/25: John Peel Session, BBC Radio One. Studio Five, BBC Maida Vale Studios, London. August 5, 1969.
Broadcast: August 6, 1969. Produced by Pete Ritzema. Engineered by Mike Harding. Fragments only.

CD Two:

01: Magic (Removed - Same as Made to Love Magic album)
02: The Thoughts Of Mary Jane (Alternate version, totally different to the officially released version)
03: Day Is Done
04: Time Has Told Me [Take 1]
05: Saturday Sun [Take 1]
06: River Man (Removed - Same as Five Leaves Left)
07: Joey [Take 2]
08: Saturday Sun [II]
09: Saturday Sun [III]
10: Mayfair
11: Mayfair [II]
12: Fly [II] (Not the same as the one released on the Time of No Reply album)
13: Parasite (Not the same as the one included in the Pink Moon album)
14: Joey [Fragment] (Not the same as the one released on the Time of No Reply album)
15: Guitar Intsrumental [aka "No. 1 - Guitar"]
16: Poor Boy
17: Time Has Told Me
18: Voices (Removed - Same as Time of No Reply)
19: Sketch #2 � Guitar
20: Sketch #4 � Piano
21: Sketch #5 � Guitar
22: Sketch #6 � Piano
23: Sketch #7 � Piano
24: Hanging On A Star (Removed - Same as Time of No Reply)
25: Rider On The Wheel (Removed - Same as Time of No Reply)
26: Black Eyed Dog (Removed - Same as Time of No Reply)
27: Tow The Line (Removed - Same as Time of No Reply)
28: I Wish I Was A Single Girl Again (Removed - Interplay One: Educational Toolkit album)
29: Full Fathom Five (Removed - Interplay One: Educational Toolkit album)
30: With My Swag All On My Shoulder (Removed - Interplay One: Educational Toolkit album)
31: The Commissioner, He Come (Removed - Same as Mick Audsley: Dark and Devil Waters)
32: Dark And Devil Waters (Removed - Same as Mick Audsley: Dark and Devil Waters)


01-03: Sound Techniques, Chelsea, London. July � December 1968. Engineered by John Wood. Early, rejected takes.
Orchestra arranged and conducted by Richard Hewson.

04-06: Sound Techniques, Chelsea, London. July � December 1968. Engineered by John Wood.

07: Sound Techniques, Chelsea, London. November 11, 1968. Engineered by John Wood.

08-11: The Music Room, Far Leys, Tanworth In Arden. 1968.

12-15: Hampstead, London. 1968/1969.

16-23: The �Work Tape�. Possibly recorded at The Music Room, Far Leys, Tanworth In Arden. 1968.

24/27: Sound Techniques, Chelsea, London. July 1974. Produced by Joe Boyd and John Wood. Guitar track only.

25/26: Sound Techniques, Chelsea, London. February 1974. Produced by Joe Boyd and John Wood. Guitar track only.

28-30: The �Interplay One� Educational Toolkit album, released by Longman (Mono LG 582 241367). Unknown studio.
Recorded late 1971, released early 1972.

31/32: The Mick Audsley album �Dark and Devil Waters� released by Sonet Records (SNTF 641), 1972.
Produced and arranged by Robert Kirby and Mick Audsley. Recorded at Sound Techniques, Chelsea, London.


Nick Drake (1948-1974)� failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime but his work has gradually achieved wider notice and recognition� Drake�s reluctance to perform live, or be interviewed, contributed to his lack of commercial success. There is no known footage of the adult Drake; he was only ever captured in still photographs and in home footage from his childhood�

By the mid-1980s Drake was being credited as an influence by such artists as Robert Smith, David Sylvian and Peter Buck. In 1985, The Dream Academy reached the UK and US charts with �Life in a Northern Town�, a song written for and dedicated to Drake. By the early 1990s, he had come to represent a certain type of �doomed romantic� musician in the UK music press and was frequently cited as an influence by artists including Kate Bush, Paul Weller, Beck and The Black Crowes. - wikipedia

There are few releases that bear Nick Drake�s name, with only 3 lifetime albums under his belt, and the scantist of studio recordings, demos, radio tracks, etc his legacy was almost on a par with that of one of his heroes � Robert Johnson.

However, a new boot has just emerged on Rover records featuring what could be the last word on the home recordings by the folk troubadour. �A Day Gone By� features numerous upgrades, new to circulation variants and session tracks that feature Nick�s playing that the estate of Nick Drake are not willing to release. Justifiably, some of the sources used previously to Nick Drake bootlegs and grey area recordings showed diminishing returns but this release promises the best of what�s out there ..

Some of the songs are already included in other bootlegs, but this one has higher quality versions. I have removed any tracks with the same titles as those on the official Family Tree release to avoid any possibility that they have been officially released.

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