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Nick Drake - Time Has Told Me (1974)

Track listing:
CD1
  1. Get Together 1:54
  2. Been Smoking Too Long 2:15
  3. Don't Think Twice It's All Right 2:23
  4. If You Leave Me Pretty Mama 2:04
  5. Courting Blues 2:33
  6. My Sugar So Sweet 1:44
  7. Strolling Down The Highway 3:10
  8. Blues Run The Game 2:28
  9. Winter Is Gone 2:44
  10. Here Come The Blues 3:49
  11. All My Trials-Duet With Gabrielle Drake 1:57
  12. Tomorrow Is Such A Long Time 3:21
  13. Cocaine Blues 2:05
  14. Milk And Honey 3:00
  15. Summertime 1:50
  16. Black Mountain Blues 2:36
  17. Nick's Monologue 3:12
  18. Strange Meeting I/Bird Flew By 2:51
  19. To The Garden 1:53
  20. Joey 5:10
  21. Rain 3:20
  22. Blossom 2:37
CD2
  1. Time Has Told Me 4:05
  2. Saturday Sun [First Take] 2:52
  3. Thoughts Of Mary Jane 3:55
  4. Day Is Done 3:16
  5. Fly [Second Take] 2:56
  6. Place To Be 2:51
  7. Hazey Jane I 4:49
  8. Parasite [First Take] 4:12
  9. Parasite [Second Take] 4:09
  10. Brittle Days I 1:23
  11. Brittle Days II 1:03
  12. Poor Boy 3:36
  13. Time Has Told Me 1:28
  14. Work In Progress 3 0:41
  15. Voice From The Mountain 0:33
  16. Brittle Days III [Variation] 1:44
  17. Far Leys 3:27
  18. Brittle Days III 2:18
  19. Work In Progress 7 0:31
  20. Impromptu Sound Check 3:17
  21. Black Eyed Dog [Guitar Track, Alternate Take] 3:21
  22. Rider On The Wheel [Guitar Track] 2:34

Notes

Unreleased demos and studio outtakes collection

Disc One
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-Duet With Gabrielle Drake
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

Disc Two
1. Time Has Told Me
2. Saturday Sun [First Take]
3. Thoughts Of Mary Jane
4. Day Is Done
5. Fly [Second Take]
6. Place To Be
7. Hazey Jane I
8. Parasite [First Take]
9. Parasite [Second Take]
10. Brittle Days I
11. Brittle Days II
12. Poor Boy
13. Time Has Told Me
14. Work In Progress 3
15. Voice From The Mountain
16. Brittle Days III [Variation]
17. Far Leys
18. Brittle Days III
19. Work In Progress 7
20. Impromptu Sound Check
21. Black Eyed Dog [Guitar Track, Alternate Take]
22. Rider On The Wheel [Guitar Track]

Recording info:
CD1
Tracks 1-22: Recorded at The Music Room, Far Leys, Tanworth In Arden, between 1967/1968

CD2
Track 1-4: Island demos. Rejected arrangements, engineered by John Wood. Recorded at Sound Techniques, Chelsea, London, between July 1968 - December 1968.
Tracks 5-10: Recorded by Brian Wells, Hampstead, London, 1969.
Tracks 11-19:Work Tape, probably recorded between 1968/1969. Chaotic section of the home tapes.
Tracks 20-22: Engineered by John Wood at Sound Techniques, Chelsea, London. February 1974 or July 1974

Features 44 exclusive tracks transferred from original copies of Nicholas Rodney Drake's home tapes. Expertly equalised and mastered using noise reduction and speed correction. Legendary Nick Drake aficionado Scott Appel released his extensive Nick Drake recordings for release during Autumn 2001. Due to the limited original pressing selling out exceptionally quick, we have repressed it on heavyweight 180gm vinyl and on CD for the first time. Features material recorded at The Music Room, Far Leys, Tanworth In Arden, 1967 1968. Island demos for "Five Leaves Left" arranged by Richard Hewson and engineered by John Wood. These are the legendary rejected arrangements (rumoured not to exist) recorded at Sound Techniques, Chelsea, London. Between July 1968 and late 1968. The much sought after Brian Wells tape, Hampstead, London, 1969. Nick Drake's personal Work Tape probably recorded between 1968 /1969. This chaotic section of the home tapes has been much recorded over. For documentary reasons we have edited nothing out. The final session engineered by John Wood at Sound Techniques, Chelsea, London February or July 1974. Again, much debated whether or not Nick Drake was well enough to sing and play at the same time; this tape proves he wasn't.