Time of No Reply is a 1987
compilation album featuring outtakes and alternative versions of songs by
Englishfolk singer
Nick Drake. It was also included as the fourth disc of the 1987 version of the Nick Drake
box setFruit Tree.
Tracks 5 & 6 pre-date the Five Leaves Left sessions (October 1968)
Tracks 7, 9 & 10 are home recordings from 1967-1969
Track 8 is an alternate take featuring
Richard Thompson on guitar (December 1968)
Tracks 11, 12, 13 are 3 of the so-called "final four" recordings (February 1974). The other, "Tow the Line," was recorded in July 1974 and is included on other releases.
Track 14 is also referred to as "Voices" on other releases.
Remaster
The
Island executive who compiled the Family Tree collection indicated plans to remaster Time of No Reply (which was not originally released on Island, but on
Hannibal Records), with a different track listing. This became Made to Love Magic.[3]
References
^Drake, Gabrielle, Nick Drake: Remembered For A While, Little, Brown and Company, 2014.