THE GARDEN OF JANE DELAWNEY

Trees' first album, 'The Garden of Jane Delawney' (1970) snuggles nicely into contemporary nu-folkies' idea of the genre, and shares some of the pastoral-whimsy that characterized The Incredible String Band or Donovan, offset by some stunning interpretations of traditional material and Bias' own songs. The record includes readings of 'Lady Margaret', 'Glasgerion', the old standard 'She Moved Thro' The Fair', and the extended fade of the group's own 'Road', presage the explosive instrumental dueling that would come to characterize the follow-up album, 'On The Shore'.