The Garden of Jane Delawney is the debut album of British

United Kingdom

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 folk rock

Folk rock

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 band Trees

Trees (folk band)

Trees was an English folk rock band that existed between 1969 and 1972. Although the group met with little commercial success in their time, the reputation of the band has grown over the years. Like other folk contemporaries, Trees' music was influenced by Fairport Convention, but with a heavier...

. Whilst nearly every song on the album appears to be a traditional

Traditional music

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 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

Bias Boshell

Tobias "Bias" Boshell is an English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the founder of folk rock band Trees.He was born in Wye, Kent, was educated at Bedales and the Royal College of Music...

. 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

Bias Boshell

Tobias "Bias" Boshell is an English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the founder of folk rock band Trees.He was born in Wye, Kent, was educated at Bedales and the Royal College of Music...

 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
   Glasgerion
   -Synopsis:Glasgerion is a king's son and a harper. He harps before another king, whose daughter arranges a tryst with him. He tells his servant to ensure that he wakes in time to make the tryst. The servant goes in his place and rapes the princess. She learns the truth and kills herself,...
   
   " (traditional) – 5:18
6. "She Moved Thro' the Fair
   She Moved Through the Fair
   "She Moved Through the Fair" is a traditional Irish folk song, existing in a number of versions and which has been recorded many times.-Origins:...
   
   " (traditional) – 8:09
7. "Road" – 4:36
8. "Epitaph" – 3:26
9. "Snail's Lament" – 4:40

Covers

• Françoise Hardy
  Françoise Hardy
  Françoise Madeleine Hardy is a French singer, actress and astrologer. Hardy is an iconic figure in fashion, music and style. She is married to the singer and movie actor Jacques Dutronc.-Biography:...
  
   covered "The Garden of Jane Delawney" on her album If You Listen.
• All About Eve
  All About Eve (band)
  All About Eve were a British rock/pop band. The creative core consisted of the Coventry born Julianne Regan , and the Huddersfield born Andy Cousin , with other members changing over the years...
  
   covered "The Garden of Jane Delawney" as a B-Side to their single "What Kind of Fool"
  All About Eve (album)
  All About Eve is the self-titled first album of All About Eve. Commercially, this was their most successful, reaching No.7 in the UK charts and spawning four Top 40 singles...
  
   in 1988. They also did a similar interpretation of "She Moved Through the Fair
  She Moved Through the Fair
  "She Moved Through the Fair" is a traditional Irish folk song, existing in a number of versions and which has been recorded many times.-Origins:...
  
  ".
• Dark Sanctuary
  Dark Sanctuary
  Dark Sanctuary is a French Neoclassical band which was formed in 1996 in Paris, Île-de-France.-History:The band's first official release was a 20 minute single track MCD, Funeral Cry, released in 1997...
  
  , 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
  Ygdrassil
  Ygdrassil was a Dutch harmony singing folk duo, that consisted of the singer/songwriters Linde Nijland and Annemarieke Coenders. The band is named for the Yggdrasil, the tree of life in traditional Nordic belief....
  
  , a Dutch folk band, covered "The Garden of Jane Delawney" on their album Easy sunrise (2005).