Way to Blue | |
Type: | Compilation |
Artist: | Nick Drake |
Cover: | Nick Drake - Way to Blue.jpg |
Released: | 31 May 1994 |
Recorded: | 1968–1974 |
Genre: | Folk |
Label: | Hannibal (US), Island (UK) |
Producer: | Joe Boyd / John Wood |
Prev Title: | Time of No Reply |
Prev Year: | 1987 |
Next Title: | Made to Love Magic |
Next Year: | 2004 |
Way to Blue: An Introduction to Nick Drake is a 1994 compilation album featuring tracks by English singer/songwriter Nick Drake, taken from his original three albums plus Time of No Reply. The album reached gold certificate in the U.K. on 30 September 1999 after selling 100,000 copies. In United States in the year 2000 sales have jumped to 67,916 units.[1]
In Europe, this spawned a series of Introduction to... compilations of various artists in the Universal Music roster.[2]
All songs by Nick Drake.
from Five Leaves Left, 1969
from Bryter Layter, 1971
from Five Leaves Left, 1969
from Pink Moon, 1972
from Five Leaves Left, 1969
from Bryter Layter, 1971
from Time of No Reply, 1987
from Pink Moon, 1972
from Bryter Layter, 1971
from Bryter Layter, 1971
from Pink Moon, 1972
from Bryter Layter, 1971
from Five Leaves Left, 1969
from Pink Moon, 1972
from Time of No Reply, 1987
from Five Leaves Left, 1969
Nick Drake performs vocals and acoustic guitar on all songs and piano on "Pink Moon".
Also features (on various songs):