Album • 2025

The Making Of Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake • 42 songs • 2 hr 40 min

The Making of Five Leaves Left is a music boxed set, released on 25 July 2025 via Island Records, which features studio outtakes and alternative versions of songs by the English singer-songwriter and musician Nick Drake recorded during his sessions for his debut 1969 LP, Five Leaves Left. It was released in both 4LP and 4CD configurations. Discs 1–3 feature a collection of demos, alternate studio takes and Cambridge home reels covering sessions from early 1968 to April 1969 – including the earliest Sound Techniques session and a newly found Paul de Rivaz Cambridge reel. De Rivaz came to see Michael Burdett when he was performing his show, Strange Face: Adventures with a Lost Nick Drake Recording. On learning about, and having heard, the de Rivaz recording, Burdett informed the Drake estate of its existence. Disc 4/LP4 of the boxed set is the original album, fully remastered, sequenced as Joe Boyd prepared it in mid‑June 1969. A 60-page book authored by Neil Storey and Richard Morton Jack is included with the set. The book includes a detailed session history of all the tracks and recording notes. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mak...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

1

Mayfair (1st Sound Techniques Session, March / 1968)

2:18

2

Time Has Told Me (1st Sound Techniques Session, March / 1968)

3:38

3

Man In A Shed (1st Sound Techniques Session, March / 1968)

3:06

4

Fruit Tree (1st Sound Techniques Session, March / 1968)

3:32

5

Saturday Sun (1st Sound Techniques Session, March / 1968)

2:44

6

Strange Face (1st Sound Techniques Session, March / 1968)

3:43

7

Strange Face (Rough Mix With Guide Vocal, 11th September 1968)

4:25

8

Day Is Done (Take 5, 11th April 1968)

3:18

9

Day Is Done (Take 2, 12th November 1968)

2:39

10

Day Is Done (Take 7, 3rd April 1969)

2:31

11

Man In A Shed (Take 1, 10th May 1968)

3:08

12

My Love Left With The Rain (Cambridge, Lent Term / 1968)

3:52

13

Blossom (Cambridge, Lent Term / 1968)

4:26

14

Instrumental (Cambridge, Lent Term / 1968)

1:41

15

Made To Love Magic (Cambridge, Lent Term / 1968)

5:29

16

Mickey’s Tune (Cambridge, Lent Term / 1968)

3:24

17

The Thoughts Of Mary Jane (Cambridge, Lent Term / 1968)

4:25

18

Day Is Done (Cambridge, Lent Term / 1968)

2:49

19

Time Has Told Me (Cambridge, Lent Term / 1968)

2:40

20

Three Hours (Take 2, 11th November 1968)

4:24

21

Time Has Told Me (Take 4, 11th November 1968)

4:34

22

Strange Face (Take 1, 12th November 1968)

4:13

23

Saturday Sun (Take 1, 12th November 1968)

4:24

24

Fruit Tree (Take 4, 12th November 1968)

4:55

25

Time Of No Reply (Take 3 Into 4, 20th December 1968)

2:56

26

'cello Song (Take 4, January 4th 1969)

4:50

27

Mayfair (Take 5, 4th January 1969)

3:31

28

River Man (Take 1, 4th January 1969)

5:12

29

Way To Blue (Cambridge, Winter / 1968)

2:51

30

The Thoughts Of Mary Jane (Take 2, 3rd April 1969)

3:30

31

Saturday Sun (Take 1 Into Take 2, 22nd April 1969)

4:57

32

River Man (Take 2, April 1969)

4:44

33

Time Has Told Me

4:25

34

River Man

4:19

35

Three Hours

6:13

36

Way To Blue

3:09

37

Day Is Done

2:26

38

' Cello Song

4:45

39

The Thoughts Of Mary Jane

3:19

40

Man In A Shed

3:52

41

Fruit Tree

4:47

42

Saturday Sun

4:04

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