The Garden of Jane Delawney

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The Garden of Jane Delawney
The Garden of Jane Delawney cover
Studio album by Trees
Released Early 1970
Label CBS
Producer Bias Boshell
Professional reviews
Trees chronology
The Garden of Jane Delawney
(1970)		 On the Shore
(1970)

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.

[edit] Track listing

Actual folk songs are marked with an asterisk.

  1. "Nothing Special"
  2. "The Great Silkie"*
  3. "The Garden of Jane Delawney"
  4. "Lady Margaret"*
  5. "Glasgerion"*
  6. "She Moved Through the Fair"*
  7. "Road"
  8. "Epitaph"
  9. "Snail's Lament"

[edit] Notes

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 Modem Meam, released in 2005.