Home / Music / Pink Moon is just Nick Drake and his guitarMusic linernotes album music nick-drakePink Moon is just Nick Drake and his guitarUnlike Five Leaves Left and Bryter Layter, Pink Moon was recorded with no backing band — just Drake on vocals and acoustic guitar, with a single piano overdub on the title track. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesBryter Layter sold almost nothing on release — like every Nick Drake albumFive Leaves Left sold almost nothing when it first came outNick Drake's Pink Moon was made in two nights — just him and an engineer.Nick Drake used open tunings on Five Leaves LeftNick Drake's headstone reads 'now we rise and we are everywhere'ExploreBee Thousand has 20 songs, all recorded lo-fiHalf of Rust Never Sleeps came from Neil Young's Zuma sessionsThe Roots recorded 145 songs for Things Fall Apart — and cut all but 14Bedouine wrote 30 songs to get 10 for her debutSchoenberg's second string quartet introduces a sopranoPrevious Pirates traces the end of Rickie Lee Jones' relationship with Tom WaitsNext Pink Moon came out February 25, 1972 on Island Records