Nick Drake - Family Tree - Alternate Version (1967)

The officially released Nick Drake album "Family Tree" is good overall, but it has some serious flaws when it comes to what songs are included or are not included.

First off, I've already moved all the Drake originals to a revamped "Time of No Reply," so they don't appear here. Secondly, there are so tracks from Drake's youth that I don't want to repeatedly here - two songs performed by his mother and him giving a clarinet recital to some relatives when he was a teen. So I cut those out.

That leaves us with just folk songs he did written by others, most of them performed by him in 1967. It's good have all of these together, because the songs he wrote are done in a very unique style and don't really fit with his cover versions. But... for some inexplicable reason, the album omitted four of his cover songs that have appeared on bootlegs and are just as good as the rest. Plus, another song  ("Betty and Dupree") is only available on rare versions of the album as a bonus track.

So this leaves out all the songs that don't fit, and adds in the five that do. It makes for a nice collection of all the songs by others that he covered (not counting "Been Smoking Too Long," which I put elsewhere because it was written by a personal friend and sounds more like a Drake original).

The album ends up being 44 minutes long, which would have been a fine length had it come out in the late 1960s. I didn't make any changes to the cover.

01 Winter Is Gone (Nick Drake)
02 All My Trials (Nick & Gabrielle Drake)
03 Betty and Dupree (Nick Drake)
04 Strolling Down the Highway (Nick Drake)
05 Cocaine Blues (Nick Drake)
06 Black Mountain Blues (Nick Drake)
07 Tomorrow Is a Long Time (Nick Drake)
08 If You Leave Me (Nick Drake)
09 Here Come the Blues (Nick Drake)
10 Blues Run the Game (Nick Drake)
11 My Baby So Sweet (Nick Drake)
12 Milk and Honey (Nick Drake)
13 Kimbie (Nick Drake)
14 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Nick Drake)
15 Courting Blues (Nick Drake)
16 Summertime (Nick Drake)
17 Let's Get Together (Nick Drake)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15110984/NickDr_1967_FamlyTreeAlternateVersion_atse.zip.html

The album cover is simply the official cover, unchanged.