The Garden of Jane Delawney explained

The Garden of Jane Delawney
Type:	Album
Artist:	Trees
Cover:	gardenjd.jpg
Released:	April 24, 1970
Recorded:	early 1970
Genre:	Folk rock, psychedelic folk
Length:	47:28
Label:	CBS
Producer:	David Howells, Tony Cox
Next Title:	On the Shore
Next Year:	1971

The Garden of Jane Delawney is the debut album of British folk rock band Trees.

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

Trees

• Celia Humphris - vocals
• Barry Clarke - lead and acoustic guitars
• David Costa - acoustic and 12-string guitars, design, cover painting
• Bias Boshell - bass, vocals, acoustic guitar
• Unwin Brown - drums^[1]

Technical

• Mike FitzHenry, Vic Gamm - engineer

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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Trees – the Garden of Jane Delawney (1970, Vinyl). Discogs.