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- Initially playing blues rock and jazz fusion, the band soon incorporated elements of English folk music, hard rock and classical music, forging a signature progressive rock sound.
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Joe Parrish. Website. jethrotull.com. Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1967. Initially playing blues rock and jazz fusion, the band soon incorporated elements of English folk music, hard rock and classical music, forging a signature progressive rock sound. [1]
Ian Anderson plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull – in Butzbach (Germany) 6 June 2007. Anderson appeared as a guest on the song "All Along You Knew" from The Big Prize (1985), the second album by Canadian rock band Honeymoon Suite. This followed Jethro Tull's 1984 tour, on which Honeymoon Suite was one of the opening acts.
- “Locomotive Breath” A classic staple of Jethro Tull’s discography, “Locomotive Breath” is an invigorating piece of rock music that never fails to thrill listeners.
- “Living In The Past” Recorded in 1969, “Living In The Past” is a fan favorite that reflects the band’s signature folk-rock style. Its combination of acoustic guitar and flute provides a unique sound, while the lyrics express the desire to look fondly upon the past.
- “Aqualung” Released in 1971, “Aqualung” is a classic example of progressive rock, combining elements of folk, blues, and hard rock. The song has become a staple of Jethro Tull’s live performances, and its lyrics are considered some of the most poetic in the band’s repertoire.
- “Too Old To Rock’n’ Roll” The 1976 track “Too Old To Rock’n’ Roll” is a captivating exploration of the struggles of aging and the search for a sense of purpose.
Initially playing blues rock, the band’s sound soon incorporated elements of British folk music and hard rock to forge a progressive rock signature.
- ‘Aqualung’ From: ‘Aqualung’ (1971) The tune helming our list of the Top 10 Jethro Tull Songs is built around an ominous heavy rock riff as universally renowned as the one behind "Smoke on the Water," "Iron Man" or "Whole Lotta Love."
- ‘Thick as a Brick (Side 1)’ From: ‘Thick as a Brick’ (1971) After years of hearing his group conveniently lumped in with the prog rock bands of the early '70s, Anderson finally decided to pick up the gauntlet and fire back with an album-length song-suite on Jethro Tull’s fifth full-length.
- ‘Locomotive Breath’ From: ‘Aqualung’ (1971) By 1971, Ian Anderson had earned quite the reputation for constructing Jethro Tull songs around deeply allegorical, sometimes downright baffling lyrics, but he really outdid himself on the second-to-last song from that year’s seminal Aqualung LP, "Locomotive Breath," which allegedly describes the protagonist’s life as it falls apart all around him.
- ‘Songs from the Wood’ From: ‘Songs from the Wood’ (1977) Anyone foolish enough to presume that Jethro Tull’s peculiar musical template had effectively run out of steam towards the end of the ‘70s was proven sorely mistaken by the unprecedented finesse, balletic majesty and sheer, genre-straddling mastery of 1977’s Songs from the Wood.
Apr 2, 2020 · In the 70s, Tull’s idiosyncratic blend of progressive rock, hard rock and folk music made them one of the biggest bands in the world via a series of landmark albums including Aqualung, Thick As A Brick, Minstrel In The Gallery and Songs From The Wood.
Conceived as a psychedelic blues band in late 1967 the music of Jethro Tull has always been dauntingly intricate embracing many styles including blues, jazz, folk, medieval, classical, hard rock along with forays into electronic music, sometimes referred to as "space age prog".
