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Five Leaves Left is the debut studio album by English folk musician Nick Drake. Recorded between 1968 and 1969, it was released in 1969 by Island Records.
Aug 23, 2017 · After a couple of months he left the stage, canceled the tour and never performed live again. But that debut album he released in 1969 endured long after his sadly short career. This is the story of the classic album Five Leaves Left.
Perhaps the fact that Drake did not neatly fit into a popular sound and genre at the time of his debut’s release in 1969 prompted his posthumous cult status as ‘Five Leaves Left’ does not sound like a reflection of the times but in effect, timeless. By Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy
- Classic Album Sundays
Jun 22, 2015 · What is it about the music on Five Leaves Left that has held you over the years? Nick Drake was a singer, songwriter and guitarist of unusual skill and depth, thoughtful, poetic, enigmatic, dreamy and mysterious, complex yet potentially commercial (as has now been proved) to a perceptive market, certainly addictive, certainly sophisticated, an ...
- Chris Charlesworth
Five Leaves Left, recorded on a shoestring in 1969, boasted a cast of players who had paid their dues forging the new genre of folk rock (ie: Fairport's Richard Thompson and Pentangle's Danny...
Jul 1, 2019 · While it never found an audience in the late Sixties, Five Leaves Left now stands as one of the most timeless albums in British music history. Listen to Five Leaves Left by Nick Drake here via Spotify, and tell us what you think below!
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Sep 1, 2024 · Five Leaves Left, which took its title from the manufacturer’s message inserted near the end of a packet of Rizla cigarette papers, was recorded between the summer of 1968 and a year later.
