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Bryter Layter is the second studio album by English folk singer-songwriter Nick Drake. Recorded in 1970 and released on 5 March 1971 by Island Records , it was his last album to feature backing musicians, as his next and final studio album, Pink Moon , had Drake perform all songs solo.
Bryter Layter - Nick Drake. Following disappointing sales of Five Leaves Left, both Joe Boyd and Nick were keen to produce a less pastoral sounding follow-up. According to Robert Kirby the plan was to make an ‘up, good, happy album’.
Mar 17, 2021 · Bryter Layter (1971), the prodigious sophomore album of the inimitable Nick Drake, celebrates its semi centennial anniversary this March. Join Sharon Beriro in reviewing this iconic album.
Jan 15, 2015 · Lamenting how ‘‘Nobody cares how steep my stairs and nobody smiles if I cross their styles’’, Drake skilfully saves the song from disappearing down a sickly black hole of self-pity with session singers Pat (PP Arnold) and Doris Troy’s mocking backing vocals.
Mar 4, 2021 · From a purely musical viewpoint, it’s his most diverse, with Dave Pegg and Dave Mattacks from Fairport Convention providing most of the rhythm section work, and appearances by John Cale and Richard Thompson; female soul singers Doris Troy and Pat Arnold even do backup vocals…
Bryter Layter is Nick Drake’s second album after Five Leaves Left (1969). It was recorded during the course of 1970, in the Sound Techniques studio in London, and released on March 6, 1971.
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