Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left (Island)
Mark Williams, International Times, 18 July 1969
I DON'T think I've been so impressed by an unknown singer/songwriter since I got the Duncan Browne album on Immediate, eighteen months ago, (why don't Immediate send us review copies? WHY DON'T IMMEDIATE SEND US REVIEW COPIES?), as I've been by the Nick Drake thing.
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