Ring Out Solstice Bells
It’s a few days late for the solstice but… Oh. A very merry Christmas to everybody.
View ArticleWe Used To Know: Jethro Tull. Hotel California?
While looking for Ring Out Solstice Bells on You Tube I came across this. Not having bought nor even listened to Stand Up beyond any singles it spawned, I had no idea this similarity existed. Ian...
View ArticleFriday On My Mind 23: Living In The Past
Another single I bought in Bexhill-on-Sea; this one a couple of years after The Happenings. It was the first big hit for Jethro Tull, coolly if somewhat archaically named after the improver of the seed...
View ArticleFriday On My Mind 38: Christmas Song
This partly breaks the rules I set myself for this category in that I’ve already featured Tull. But it’s that time of year isn’t it? It’s also by way of responding to Big Rab’s comment on my festive...
View ArticleNot Friday On My Mind 10: Witch’s Promise
This only just scrapes in as a 60s track. It was released in late 1969 but made the charts in January 1970. Bizarrely there seems to be an extract from Blue Peter at the beginning of this. However, one...
View ArticleOne More Christmas Song?
Well Tull at Christmas is almost a tradition here, now, isn’t it? Jethro Tull: Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow
View ArticleTull at Christmas: We Five Kings
From their Christmas Album (2003) this is We Three Kings rearranged into 5/4 time and so (apparently also because there are five members of the band) retitled. Jethro Tull: We Five Kings
View ArticleLive It Up 9: Coronach
Another song that was used in a TV series – written specially for it – was Jethro Tull’s Coronach, the theme tune for a Channel 4 series on British History called Blood of the British. I liked it so...
View ArticleTull at Christmas: Another Christmas Song
Another Christmas song from Tull’s Christmas Album (2003) – called …… Another Christmas Song. Jethro Tull: Another Christmas Song
View ArticleNot Friday On My Mind 22: Sweet Dream
The follow up to Living in the Past. As I recall this was a hit at the back end of 1969 and on into 1970. The group’s second single to reach the top ten. Jethro Tull: Sweet Dream
View ArticleGlenn Cornick
I just read today of the death of Glenn Cornick, first bassist for Jethro Tull. This was at the time when the band had a very bluesy sound. At first I thought of marking his passing with Driving Song,...
View ArticleTull at Christmas: Birthday Card at Christmas
I neglected Tull last Christmas. Must have been busy. Time to make up for it. Tull’s main man, Ian Anderson, vocalist, flautist, guitarist, pianist, song-writer, was inspired to write this song as his...
View ArticleReelin’ In the Years 138: Life’s A Long Song
I just love the rhyming in this song’s lyric. The only slight blemishes in its perfection are the lack of any assonance (rather than rhyme) in song/fill at the end of the first refrain – though...
View ArticleReelin’ In the Years 140: Up the Pool
I’ve still not caught up with happenings while I was away. However, following on from yesterday’s post. For the Lancashire coast’s heritage. Originally from the Life’s a Long Song extended player then...
View ArticleTull at Christmas: Holly Herald
Not vintage Tull I’m afraid. But it’s that time of year so here’s Ian Anderson’s reworking of several Christmas tunes in the Tull style. From The Jethro Tull Christmas Album released in 2003. Jethro...
View ArticleNot Friday on my Mind 49: Legend of a Mind. RIP Ray Thomas
Ray Thomas, who died this week was a multi-instrumentalist not very well-served by most of the time on stage with The Moody Blues merely flourishing a tambourine or otherwise not seeming to do very...
View ArticleTull at Christmas: Last Man at the Party
From The Jethro Tull Christmas Album. Though this one is more appropriate for New Year’s Day. Jethro Tull: Last Man at the Party Merry Christmas, everybody.
View ArticleReelin’ In the Years 162: Locomotive Breath
Tull in their pomp. An acknowledgement of their bluesy origins in the intro leading into a complete rock-out and then one of Ian Anderson’s trademark flute solos. The mix of blues and rock also pointed...
View ArticleTull at Christmas: Fire at Midnight
Merry Christmas one and all. This song was on Tull’s Christmas album in a remastered form but originally appeared on Songs From the Wood. This, the earlier version, sounds warmer to me. Jethro Tull:...
View ArticleSomething Changed 35: Kiss From a Rose
A bit of “Hey Nonny Nonny” this week. Not from the middle ages but from 1994. (The oboe is a wee bit reminiscent of Jethro Tull’s Coronach.) Seal: Kiss From a Rose
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