The alternate versions after the original albums (on CD's 1 and 2), all the rest would elegantly form a third, full. Or then, without taking anything away, by putting just a couple of By omitting a few tracks - for instance, six tracks of the second album reappear asĢ007 remixes - everything would fit in two CD's. Still I'd say FOUR discs is a bit of an unnecessary boastingĬoncerning the actual contents. You're the opposite, you may ignore my reserved attitude. Mainly for the album-originating contents instead of the collector's stuff) but I wouldn't buy them myself. I do like borrowing box sets of artists/bands (although But please note that I personally have minimal interest towardsĪlternate/demo/live/whatever versions of the same songs. Right away with the crucial question: how essential and worth purchasing this set is for someone already owningīoth albums? Not much if you ask me. On the outside, the book-shaped set of four discs is undoubtedly appealing to a connoisseur of the band. Not going to analyze them as individual albums in my overview at this box set containing all the Trees material ever Since both of the albums have gained several reviews here, I'm The best stylistic reference is PENTANGLE, most obviously because of two guitaristsĪnd a clear-voiced female vocalist (Celia Humphris). There were quite many - was TREES who at the time didn't receive the recognition and appreciation they surelyĭeserved, but whose two albums, The Garden of Jane Delawney (1969) and On the Shore (1970), have nowadays aĬlassic status within the genre. The Pentangle, plus perhaps The Incredible String Band somewhere behind them. The TREES (along with the other bands mentioned in this article) are recommended to everyone wanted to investigate the folkish side of progressive rock and its acoustic side.īy far the best known British folk rock groups coming in the late 60's were Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and But that SMBWMP (stupid mindless British weekly music press) would keep on deriding this band that folded after two excellent but unsuccessful albums. True the dual guitarist and female singer was a sort of blueprint (almost cliché) for bands of those days into folk-rock, but here the musical interplay got uncommon space to develop and the numbers frequently grew longer in time, something rare in the genre and only followed by COMUS. If those so-called journalist had actually listened, they might have seen their mistake as the TREES were a lot more like the fantastically fabulous The PENTANGLE but only even more progressive. Active only between 19 (the last two years in a different formation and without any recording)Ī few years into the British folk-rock boom, came along a band called the TREES, that got slagged off by the mindless British weekly press as FAIRPORT CONVENTION sound-alike.
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