Tree: Music for Films and Forests is a 1999 live album by Jane Siberry.

It presents a concert she recorded at New York City

New York City

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's famed Bottom Line jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 club in 1996. The concert predominantly presents songs that Siberry wrote which were in some way about tree

Tree

A tree is a perennial woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or trunk with clear apical dominance. A minimum height specification at maturity is cited by some authors, varying from 3 m to...

s and forest

Forest

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s; however, she also includes two songs that she wrote and recorded for movie soundtracks. "Slow Tango" originally appeared in the Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders

Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...

 film Faraway, So Close!

Faraway, So Close!

Faraway, So Close! is a 1993 film by German director Wim Wenders. The screenplay is by Wenders, Richard Reitinger and Ulrich Zieger. The film is a sequel to Wenders' 1987 film Wings of Desire. Actors Otto Sander and Bruno Ganz reprise their roles as angels visiting earth. The film also stars...

, and "It Can't Rain All the Time" appeared in the film The Crow

The Crow (film)

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.

It was one of four concerts she performed at The Bottom Line. Two of the others appear on the double album Child: Music for the Christmas Season

Child: Music for the Christmas Season

Child: Music for the Christmas Season is a 1997 live double album by Jane Siberry.It presents material she recorded at two 1996 concerts at the famed New York City jazz club The Bottom Line. The material includes both original songs by Siberry and covers of Christmas standards.The concerts were two...

, and the last appears on Lips: Music for Saying It

Lips: Music for Saying It

Lips: Music for Saying It is a 1999 live album by Jane Siberry.It presents material she recorded at a 1996 concert at the famed New York City jazz club The Bottom Line...

. All three albums have also been released as the New York City Trilogy

New York City Trilogy

The New York City Trilogy is a four-CD box set, compiling the concert albums that Jane Siberry recorded at New York City's Bottom Line nightclub in autumn 1996...

box set.

Track listing

All songs written by Siberry.

1. "Slow Tango"
2. "Burning Ship"
3. "When Last I Was a Fisherman"
4. "It Can't Rain All the Time"
5. "I Paddle My Canoe"
6. "Adam and Eve"
7. "Up the Loggin' Road"
8. "Goin' Down the River"
9. "At the Beginning of Time"