sentences:  Recorded before the release of his first album, "Five Leaves Left", most of the tracks on the album circulated on bootlegs in the years before the official release from the Drake family.The album reached #35 on "Billboard"'s Top Independent Albums chart, making it Drake's first album to chart in America.The recordings are all from the 1960s, consisting of home recordings by Nick and his father Rodney in Tanworth-in-Arden, England; demos recorded by Nick in Aix en Provence, France; and 1968 demos recorded at Cambridge University by Nick's later frequent collaborator Robert Kirby.