The three albums of Jethro Tull favorites from Ian Anderson

In their 58 years of life, to date, i Jethro Tull they released 24 studio albums from the debut with “This was” in 1968 a “Curious Ruminant” of March of this year. Rocknews Switzerland asked Ian Andersonleader of British training to indicate his three favorite albums of his group.

As can be imagined, for the 78 -year -old Ian it is difficult to choose. “Change from time to time, it is difficult to have a favorite album. If I asked me what my favorite cat is, I should scroll a list of more than 20 cats. Everyone except two died and I would feel guilty to say that one is my favorite. Because if the other cats knew it, they would get very angry if they were not my favorite. The same goes for children: I can’t say that I like my son. Favorite nephew. It is the first, I had the feeling that it was, the first true album of the Jethro Tull, unlike the first one called “This was”. July 1968. But they will not necessarily be the Jethro Tull in July 1969, and they weren’t. “

Published in 1969, “Stand up” It was the band’s first album to present the guitarist Martin Barrewhich would have been part of the band until 2011. It contains classics like “Bourée”a song by Johann Sebastian Bach arranged by Ian Anderson, “Nothing is easy” And “Look Into the Sun”. The album reached the first place in the United Kingdom albums and twentieth albums in the United States. In addition to Anderson and Barre, the band was also formed by Glenn Cornick (bass) and Clive Bunker (drums).

“‘Thick as a brick’ was important because he represented a big step in the crazy world of progressive rock,” he explained
Ian
Anderson
A Rock News. In an interview with Redbeard a couple of years ago, Anderson explained his idea for the album released in 1972. He remembered that some did not cover parody. “It was the year of Monty Python, it was a year in which rather surreal British humor was transformed into an international phenomenon. So it was quite timely in the sense that this particular album should be a parody, a mockery. A real fiction to which people let themselves be convinced easily, usually consciously. But sometimes they did not understand the joke and took it absolutely seriously. That it was a question of British humor.

Published in 1972,
“Thick as a brick”

(
Read the review here
) was the fifth studio album of the
Jethro Tull
. It contains a single piece of music, divided on two sides of the LP. Although many call it a concept album, in reality it had to be a parody of a concept album, something that above all the progressive rock bands of the time often did. The original packaging of the album was conceived as a 12 -page newspaper that described songs as a musical adaptation of an epic poem of an imaginary 8 -year genius. All the songs were written by Anderson himself. In addition to Anderson and Barre, the album was also recorded by
John Evan
(piano, organ),
Jeffrey Hammond
(bass) and
Barriemore Barlow
(drums). The group’s classic followed
“Aqualung” (read history here)
,
“Thick as a brick”
He had a considerable success. He reached fifth place in the UK rankings and the first. in the United States.

Anderson continues his interview with Rock News indicating the third of his favorite albums of Jethro Tullsaying: “‘Songs from the Wood’ because it introduced more evident elements of folk music.”

Speaking with Let It Rock, the leader of Jethro Tull He explained that “Songs from the Wood”unlike records like “Aqualung”was more a “group album”, given that the other members contributed more. In 2006 he said: “There are several songs in the album” Aqualung “that were simply … the musical songs that could have been on Ian Anderson’s album I had done one at the time. Because it was only me who played most of the tools. It is something I did already in 1968, when I performed for the first time in the studio with a string quartet. A part of my musical life has always been linked to work. Inventing things that resembled more on an artist who works in the studio and paints a picture.

The third album mentioned by Anderson, “Songs from the Wood”came out in 1977. In addition to the title track, it also contained songs like “The Whistler” And “Jack-in-The-Green”. He reached eighth place in the US ranking and the thirteenth in the United Kingdom. With Ian Anderson they were there Martin Barre (guitar), John Glaste (Bass), John Evan (piano), Dee Palmer (piano) e Barriemore Barlow (drums).