The Garden of Jane Delawney

The Garden of Jane Delawney
Studio album by Trees
Released	24 April 1970
Recorded	early 1970
Genre	Folk rock, progressive folk
Length	47:28
Label	CBS
Producer	Bias Boshell
Trees chronology
The Garden of Jane Delawney (1970) On the Shore (1970)

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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 particularly good example of his apparent talent for writing songs that sounded like they had existed for hundreds of years as folk songs.

Track listing

All songs written by Bias Boshell except where noted.

1. "Nothing Special" (Boshell, Unwin Brown, Barry Clarke, David Costa, Celia Humphris) – 4:31
2. "The Great Silkie" (traditional) – 5:15
3. "The Garden of Jane Delawney" – 4:19
4. "Lady Margaret" (traditional) – 7:14
5. "Glasgerion" (traditional) – 5:18
6. "She Moved Thro' the Fair" (traditional) – 8:09
7. "Road" – 4:36
8. "Epitaph" – 3:26
9. "Snail's Lament" – 4:40

Bonus Tracks

1. She Moved Thro' the Fair (demo)
2. Pretty Polly (demo)
3. Black Widow (2008)
4. Little Black Cloud Suite (2008)

Personnel

• Celia Humphris - vocals
• Barry Clarke - lead and acoustic guitars
• David Costa - acoustic and 12-string guitars
• Bias Boshell - bass, vocals, acoustic guitar
• Unwin Brown - drums^[1]
• Produced by David Howells and Tony Cox

Covers

• Françoise Hardy covered "The Garden of Jane Delawney" on her album If You Listen.
• All About Eve covered "The Garden of Jane Delawney" as a B-Side to their single "What Kind of Fool" in 1988. They also did a similar interpretation of "She Moved Through the Fair".
• Dark Sanctuary, a French goth/neo-classical band, also covered "The Garden of Jane Delawney" on their album Exaudi Vocem Meam - Part I, released in 2005.
• Ygdrassil, a Dutch folk band, covered "The Garden of Jane Delawney" on their album Easy Sunrise (2005).

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