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Need More Nick Drake Than Just Those Three Albums? A New Box Comes to Your Rescue.

Nick Drake's classic 'Five Leaves Left' debut will receive an expanded reissue this July, featuring 30 unreleased recordings.

Barack Obama’s inclusion of Nick Drake ’s wistful and timeless “One of These Things First” on his annual summer playlist last year was one of the former president’s genuinely unexpected jams. But it also made sense: More than 50 years since his death, the British sadcore troubadour continues to resonate — the latest example being an upcoming box set marking the first intensive archival dig in one of his albums. Outtakes from the sessions with producer Joe Boyd from late 1968 into the spring of 1969 include alternate versions of “River Man,” “Cello Song,” “Time of No Reply,” “The Thoughts of Mary Jane,” and more.

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