Family Tree (Nick Drake album)

Family Tree
Compilation album by Nick Drake
Released	9 July 2007
Recorded	Various (1967-1968)
Genre	Folk, blues, jazz, classical
Length	66:10
Label	Island (UK CD), Tsunami LG/Fontana (US CD), Sunbeam (UK 2LP)
Producer	Various,
Nick Drake chronology
A Treasury (2004) Family Tree (2007) Tuck Box (2013)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Pitchfork	7.1/10[2]

Family Tree is a 2007 compilation album of home and demo recordings by English singer/songwriter Nick Drake. The album is notable for the appearance of Nick's sister Gabrielle on one track and the contribution of two original songs performed by Nick's mother, Molly Drake. Recorded before the release of his first album, Five Leaves Left, most of the tracks on the album circulated on bootlegs in the years before the official release from the Drake family.^[3] The album reached #35 on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart, making it Drake's first album to chart in America. The recordings are all from the 1960s, consisting of home recordings by Nick and his father Rodney in Tanworth-in-Arden, England; demos recorded by Nick in Aix en Provence, France; and 1968 demos recorded at Cambridge University by Nick's later frequent collaborator Robert Kirby.