Trees

   
Artist: Trees

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Folk
   

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Discography:


   
 The Garden of Jane Delawney

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9


   
 On the Shore

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 10

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In 1970, this British quintet released a couple of albums that made no finger cymbals most aping the approach of Fairport Convention (then at their summit). A salmagundi of traditional kinsfolk songs and originals, prolonged electric guitar heavy arrangements, and a female singer wHO took many of the lead vocals -- it worked for Fairport. It didn't work as well for the Trees, for several reasons. First of all, Celia Humphris was no Sandy Denny, nor a Jacqui McShee (Pentangle), Maddy Prior (Steeleye Span), or even Judy Dyble (world Health Organization panax quinquefolius with Fairport earlier existence replaced by Denny). The Trees' original material (usually penned by Tobias Boshell) was more often than non walker. And their arrangements, prone to plodding extended instrumental passages, were ofttimes way, manner likewise longsighted. The group skint up later two similar albums for British CBS, although they continued to run for a patch in the early '70s with some personnel changes. Boshell, in an unconvincing reverse of events, united Kiki Dee's Band, and wrote her biggest hit, "I've Got the Music in Me."