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Acrobat PDFArticle - Rolling Stone Online May 1999

Commercial Albums

-20 Years of Jethro Tull - 4CD box (1988)

-25th Anniversary Box Set - 4CD (1993)
-J-Tull Dot Com (1999)
-J-Tull Dot Com-Promo (1999) on "Tull Guts"
-Roots To Branches (1995?)
-Christmas Sampler Promo (1995) on "Tull Guts"
-In Concert - at the Hammersmith Odeon, Oct 8, 1991 (1995)
-A Little Light Music - live May 1992 (1992)
-Catfish Rising (1991)

-Aqualung (1973)

One-offs
-Silver River Turning, Rosa On The Factory Floor, I Don't Want To Be Me - from Living In The (Slightly More Recent) Past UK Part 1 CD5 1993
-Bouree - KOME: Acoustic Aid 1992

Live Tracks
-Living In The (Slightly More Recent) Past - Montreal Canada 1992 - from Living In The (Slightly More Recent) Past UK Part 1 CD5 1993
-Locomotive Breath - Philadelphia Nov 5, 1987 from King Biscuit Live Vol. 1 1991
-Aqualung - Philadelphia Nov 5, 1987 from King Biscuit Live Vol. 4 1991
-Living In The Past - BBC 1 September 9, 1984

 

Related Artist: Ian Anderson

One-offs
-Man of The World - from Rattlesnake Guitar: The Songs of Peter Green

Notes

Christmas Sampler Promo 1995
Ring Out, Solstice Bells is a Christmas song with two differences. Firstly it is (like many Tull songs) in an uncommon time signature, meaning that you have to have three and a half legs to be able to dance to it. Secondly, it celebrates, strictly speaking, not Christmas Day itself, but the Winter Solstice celebrated by the ancient Druids of Britain and virtually supplanted by the later imposed religion of Christianity. Either way, it's still a good excuse for a party. (1976 from "Songs From The Wood")

A Christmas Song states quite clearly, however, that it's not a good excuse for a party, reminding us that is is a religious festival we are celebrating and that we should spend both time and thought for compassion and spiritual search as opposed to the selfis pursuit of the material and the good time. Old spoil sport, that Anderson. Funny; the you one was too. (1968 from "Living In The Past")

Another Christmas Song is a development of the 1968 original, stressing the festive date as a time for remembering family, friends and loved ones around the world. It has an international feel to it so - if it moves you to pick up the phone this Christmas and make an old Granny happy at the sound of a longed-for voice, don't blame me if she happens to live in Taiwan and the subsequent AT&T bill ruins your weekend.

God Bless - Ian Anderson 1995

Last Updated December 11, 1999