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Trees - The Garden Of Jane Delawney (1970)Older News:2008-12-01 : New release (due on 2008/12/24) One of the benefits of registering on this site is that you can add this to your private page and add notes then print details of your collection, want lists etc. You can also leave public comments on each release.
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ChrisGoesRock (Wed, 05 May 2010 (15:21)) Login (or register) to leave comments. Release Details
Manufacturer: Sony
Mastering:24bit (2008)
Channels:Stereo
Format:CD
This version released:2008-12-24
Original LP release:1970
Genre:British Folk
(Created : 2008 Dec 01 by System; Last mod: 2010 Apr 19 by progvinyl)
(Artist Oricon: 113255)
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The Garden of Jane Delawney is the debut album of British folk rock band Trees. Whilst nearly every song on the album appears to be a traditional folk song, this is actually only the case for about half of them, the others having been penned for the album by front-man Bias Boshell. The title track is a particular good example of his apparent talent for writing songs that sounded like they had existed for hundreds of years as folk songs.
In 1970, this British quintet released a couple of albums that made no bones about aping the approach of Fairport Convention (then at their peak). A mixture of traditional folk songs and originals, extended electric-guitar heavy arrangements, and a female singer who took many of the lead vocals — it worked for Fairport. It didn't work as well for the Trees, for several reasons. First of all, Celia Humphris was no Sandy Denny, nor a Jacqui McShee (Pentangle), Maddy Prior (Steeleye Span), or even Judy Dyble (who sang with Fairport before being replaced by Denny). The Trees' original material (usually penned by Tobias Boshell) was more often than not pedestrian. And their arrangements, prone to plodding lengthy instrumental passages, were often way, way too long. The group broke up after two similar albums for British CBS, although they continued to play for a while in the early '70s with some personnel changes. Boshell, in an unlikely turn of events, joined Kiki Dee's Band, and wrote her biggest hit, "I've Got the Music in Me."
01. Nothing Special
02. Great Silkie
03. Garden of Jane Delawney
04. Lady Margaret
05. Glasgerion
06. She Moves Through the Fair
07. Road
08. Epitaph
09. Snail's Lament