A Gift From a Flower to a Garden
by Donovan
- Type: Album
- Released: December 1967
- Label: Epic
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 1:00:42
- Community rating: 4.14/5 from 6 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Packaged as a lavish double-LP, Donovan divides his focus between fully orchestrated, jazz-tinged pop songs and bare, acoustic nursery rhymes. The arrangements are deliberately gentle and unhurried, reflecting his commitment to transcendental meditation and a peaceful, nature-oriented lifestyle.
Genres
Descriptors: conscious, folk, acoustic, chamber, storytelling, gentle, melodic
Tracklist
- Wear Your Love Like Heaven (2:26)
- Mad John's Escape (2:18)
- Skip-A-Long Sam (2:24)
- Sun (3:15)
- There Was A Time (2:01)
- Oh Gosh (1:46)
- Little Boy In Corduroy (2:32)
- Under The Greenwood Tree (1:56)
- The Land Of Doesn't Have To Be (2:28)
- Someone's Singing (3:03)
- Song Of The Naturalist's Wife (2:51)
- The Enchanted Gypsy (3:19)
- Voyage Into The Golden Screen (3:14)
- Isle Of Islay (2:23)
- The Mandolin Man and His Secret (3:27)
- Lay Of The Last Tinker (1:49)
- The Tinker & The Crab (2:53)
- Widow With Shawl (A Portrait) (3:01)
- The Lullaby Of Spring (3:26)
- The Magpie (1:29)
- Starfish-On-The-Toast (2:44)
- Epistle To Derroll (5:48)
Credits
- Donovan - primary artist, composed by, arranged by, harmonica, lyrics by [verse], vocals, guitar, liner notes, whistling
- Sid Maurer - art direction
- John Carr - bongos, congas
- Karl Ferris - design [photograph design]
- Ken Baldock - double bass [string bass]
- Keith Webb - drums
- Tony Carr - drums, bells, congas, cymbal [turkish and finger cymbals]
- Cliff Barton - electric bass
- Eric Leese - electric guitar
- Mike Ross-Trevor - engineer
- Ashley Kozak - executive-producer
- Harold McNair - flute
- Mick Taylor - illustration
- Sheena McCall - illustration
- Mike O'Neill - organ, piano, harpsichord
- Mickie Most - producer
- Mike Carr - vibraphone
- Lewis Carroll - words by
- William Shakespeare - words by
- Jack Bruce - electric bass