Heaven in a Wild Flower is a 1985 compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 featuring tracks by English

England

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 singer/songwriter Nick Drake

Nick Drake

Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Though he is best known for his sombre guitar based songs, Drake was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone...

, taken from Five Leaves Left

Five Leaves Left

Five Leaves Left, recorded in 1969, was the first of three albums by British folk musician Nick Drake. Like Bryter Layter but unlike Pink Moon, this album contains no completely solo songs...

, Bryter Layter

Bryter Layter

Bryter Layter, recorded in 1970, was the second of three albums by British folk musician Nick Drake. Like Five Leaves Left, the album contains no unaccompanied songs: Drake was accompanied by part of the British folk rock group Fairport Convention and John Cale from The Velvet Underground, as well...

and Pink Moon

Pink Moon

Pink Moon is the third and final album by English musician Nick Drake. It was recorded at midnight in two separate two-hour sessions, over two days in October 1971, featuring only Nick Drake's vocals and guitar, as well as some piano later overdubbed by Drake on the title track.-Album...

. The title of the compilation is taken from the lines of William Blake

William Blake

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...

 poem Auguries of Innocence

Auguries of Innocence

Auguries of Innocence is a poem from one of William Blake's notebooks now known as The Pickering Manuscript. It is assumed to have been written in 1803, but was not published until 1863 in the companion volume to Alexander Gilchrist's biography of William Blake. The poem contains a series of...

. The album does not feature any of Drake's posthumously released material and because of the availability of more in depth compilations, such as Way to Blue

Way to Blue

Way to Blue 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...

and Fruit Tree

Fruit Tree (Nick Drake album)

Fruit Tree is a box set by English singer/songwriter Nick Drake. It now exists in several versions, all of which feature his three studio albums, plus additional material.-1979 Release:...

, this collection is largely out of print.

Track listing

All songs by Nick Drake

1. Fruit Tree - 4:49
2. 'Cello Song - 4:48
3. The Thoughts of Mary Jane - 3:20
4. Northern Sky - 3:46
5. River Man - 4:20
6. At the Chime of a City Clock - 4:47
7. Introduction - 1:31
8. Hazey Jane I - 4:31
9. Hazey Jane II - 3:46
10. Pink Moon
    Pink Moon
    Pink Moon is the third and final album by English musician Nick Drake. It was recorded at midnight in two separate two-hour sessions, over two days in October 1971, featuring only Nick Drake's vocals and guitar, as well as some piano later overdubbed by Drake on the title track.-Album...
    
     - 2:04
11. Road - 2:01
12. Which Will - 2:58
13. Things Behind the Sun - 3:56
14. Time Has Told Me - 4:23

Personnel

Nick Drake performs vocals and acoustic guitar on all songs and piano

Piano

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 on "Pink Moon".

Also featured (on various songs):

• Robert Kirby
  Robert Kirby
  Robert Kirby was a British born arranger of string sections for rock and folk music. He is best known for his work on the Nick Drake albums, Five Leaves Left and Bryter Layter, but has also worked with Elton John, Ralph McTell, Strawbs, Paul Weller and Elvis Costello.-At Cambridge:Patrick...
  
   -String Arrangements
• Richard Thompson - Guitar
• John Cale
  John Cale
  John Davies Cale, OBE is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground....
  
   - Organ, Celeste
• Chris McGregor - Piano
• Paul Harris - Piano
• Dave Pegg
  Dave Pegg
  Dave Pegg is an English multi-instrumentalist and record producer, arguably most visible as a bass guitarist. He is the longest-serving member of the pre-eminent electric folk band Fairport Convention and has been bassist with a number of important folk and rock groups including The Ian Campbell...
  
   - Bass
• Ed Carter - Bass
• Mike Kowalski
  Mike Kowalski
  Mike Kowalski is a percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the former drummers from the rock band The Beach Boys. He and saxophonist Joel C. Peskin recorded as The Backsters in 1984.-Early career:...
  
   - Drums
• Rocky Dzidzornu - Conga
• Doris Troy
  Doris Troy
  Doris Troy was an American R&B singer, known to her many fans as "Mama Soul".She was born as Doris Higginson in The Bronx, the daughter of a Barbadian Pentecostal minister. Her parents disapproved of "subversive" forms of music like rhythm & blues, so she cut her teeth singing in her father's choir...
  
   - Backing Vocals
• P.P. Arnold - Backing Vocals
• Patrick Arnold - Backing Vocals
• Ray Warleigh - Saxophone

External links

• William Blake: Auguries of Innocence poem online