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Post by JTull 007 on Jan 18, 2018 16:27:37 GMT
GREEN is my favorite color and I live in 'Horse Country'
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 22, 2018 8:44:12 GMT
www.musicweek.com/talent/read/reissues-jan-22-jethro-tull-jah-wobble-and-james-carr/071176Music Week's round-up of the latest album reissues and catalogue releases. This week we take a look at Jethro Tull, Jah Wobble and James Carr. Jethro Tull: Heavy Horses (Parlophone/Chrysalis 0190295757915)
Jethro Tull's 10th and final Top 20 album in the first decade of their career, Heavy Horses dates from 1978, and thus marks its 40th birthday and the band's 50th as a chart force via the release of this hefty 'New Shoes' edition, a box set which features the original album in a new Steven Wilson mix, additional associated studio recordings and live material spread across three CDs, and 2 DVDs loaded with 5.1 surround mixes and 96/24 PCM stereo upgrades. Heavy Horses was the second in a trilogy of albums released by Jethro Tull which blended their more usual prog. rock sound with the folk flavourings of their early years, and is thus more melodic and accessible than some of their work. It is also highly regarded by the band's faithful fan base, although it failed to generate any hit singles. Leader Iain Anderson wrote all the songs and is on top form both vocally and with his flute, especially on Moths - which is a little redolent of early Cat Stevens - the beguiling No Lullaby and the lengthy title track.
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 12, 2018 8:29:27 GMT
www.laregion.es/articulo/sociedad/jethro-tull-mas-bucolicos-40-anos-heavy-horses/20180211130917769512.htmlThe most bucolic Jethro Tull: 40 years of 'Heavy Horses'"Heavy Horses" was an album that had the peculiarity and probably that was one of the reasons why it reaped great commercial success and obtained unanimously complimentary reviews MARIANO MUNIESA 02/11/2018 13:09 H. These days we have already on the market the reissue of one of the best albums released by Jethro Tull in the 70s of the last century, the mythical "Heavy Horses", the second album of a trilogy that began in 1977 with " Songs From The Wood "and that was closed in 1979 with" Stormwatch ". Three albums in which Ian Anderson's band deliberately moved away from the progressive rock type with nuanced influence from the hardest rock that had become their most characteristic hallmark to make a type of rock much closer to folk, with pre-eminence of acoustic instruments and sonorities and a country and bucolic air that had an undeniable echo of those sounds of British folk of the early 70's with Fairport Convention or Steelye Span.
This reissue commemorating the 40th anniversary of the original album's release in April 1978 includes the original album with nine extra extra tracks, seven of which unpublished along with a live concert recorded in Bern, Switzerland, in May 1978 and a 96-page book that documents all the details about how the album was recorded, photographs and reports about the tours to present this album and a DVD with interviews to the band. Among the novelties that this anniversary edition brings, we also have sound remastered and remixed by Steven Wilson and comments of each song by Ian Anderson himself. A work done with an exquisite delicacy for the most demanding follower of Jethro Tull, an authentic jewel for collectors.
"Heavy Horses" was an album that had the peculiarity and probably that was one of the reasons why it was a great commercial success and obtained unanimously praiseworthy critics was the fact that although it followed that line of approach to folk rock with very Celtic elements defendants who opened "Songs From The Wood", deepened even more if it fits in the acoustic sounds (guitar, mandolin), especially the violin, incorporated by the contribution as a collaborator of the violinist Darryl Way, leaving in a very secondary plane the keyboards. At the time of its release, many critics pointed out the connection between this record and works like "Minstrell In The Gallery", the album that in the opinion of many fans is the one that showed an Ian Anderson overturned in his singing vein,
At the time of pointing out in that aspect songs that have remained as classics of the group in this period of the second half of the 70s and that give that vitola great album to "Heavy Horses", highlight songs like "No Lullaby", "Rover ", The very worked" Journeyman "and the one that gave title to the album," Heavy Horses ", an extensive track that contains some exceptional string arrangements and a great work by Martin Barre. Another aspect that drew particular attention was the change in the vocal style of Ian Anderson, who knew how to adapt to this new more acoustic orientation of the songs and of the production his way of singing.
"Heavy Horses" was the backdrop of a tour that took Jethro Tull to European stages in a first stage, from where most of the live material has been extracted from the three discs and the two DVD's, like the concert of the Festhalle of Bern, Switzerland, in May of 1978. In that European tour they did not play in Spain, although Jethro Tull was at that time a band of extraordinary popularity in our country, and they had passed through Madrid and Barcelona in their tour previous European 1976-Madrid and Barcelona-presenting "Too Old To Rock'n'Roll, Too Young To Die" and even in October 1974, in the aftermath of the Franco regime, being one of the first major international bands that next to Uriah Heep, Santana or Emerson, Lake &Palmer played in Spain before from 76 the coming of all the major rock groups, and censorship and political difficulties disappeared, normalized.
In that tour the band, composed by Ian Anderson as singer and flutist, Martin Barre on guitar, Barriemore Barlow on drums, John Evan and David Palmer on pianos, keyboard and synthesizers and part of the tour, Tony Williams at the bass, who had to replace John Glascock, who became seriously ill after the recording of the affected disc of a series of complications in a congenital heart disease that he suffered as a result of which he died in an operating theater on November 17, 1979. The tour toured the United States in the fall, ending at the Long Beach Arena in California on November 17, 1978.
In their day of "Heavy Horses" some interesting pirate albums were released, commonly known as "bootlegs", among which are among the most appreciated by collectors "Tull's Tractor Tales", recorded in the Deutschlandhalle de Berlin in May 1978, "Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens 15.10.1978" recorded in the Canadian city or the famous "Live at Madison Square Garden 1978" which in 2009 was released as an official live disc accompanied by a DVD. As it happened in that tour, the best songs of "Heavy Horses" alternated in the repertoire with classics like "Aqualung", "Locomotive Breath", "Too Old To Rock'n'Roll, Too Young To Die", " Cross Eyed Mary "," Thick As A Brick "or" Songs From The Wood ", as it happened in"
An album in which I repeat, as I stress in the first part of this article, a work has been done with real care by the group and its record company and is by far one of the best, most complete and more attractive reissues that have been made from different Jethro Tull albums. Although it is a very representative record only of a very specific period of his career, I even dare to recommend it as a very suitable album to start to know Jethro Tull if it has only been heard superficially, at the same level as "Thick As A Brick "or" Aqualung ".
Heavy horses move the earth under my feet ...
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 14, 2018 14:12:12 GMT
www.nationalrockreview.com/album-reviews/heavy-horses-new-shoes-edition-anniversary-edition-jethro-tullHeavy Horses (New Shoes Edition Anniversary Edition) by Jethro TullPaul Davies 14-Feb-2018 Album Reviews, Rock, UK Heavy Horses provided the meaty filling in an inspired trifecta of folk-rock releases by Jethro Tull upon its original release in 1978. Being the middle album of a unique folk rock trilogy, which began with the woodland folklore of Songs From the Wood and bookended by the spooky pagan elements of Stormwatch, it galloped into the Top 20 on both sides of the Atlantic. It still remains an essential ploughman’s lunch of collected songs, if you will, about rural folk-tales and earthy, countryside customs. Curiously, with songs inspired by Anderson’s farmyard, domestic animal arrangements. It’s also the album that spawned the live release Bursting Out. Talking of which, this “new shoes” release ploughs a deep furrow by digging up and unearthing a complete live recording of the Berne concert from the 1978 Heavy Horses tour. Essentially, the unexpurgated concert from which the studio ‘sweetened’ Bursting Out emerged. Jakko Jakszyk has polished up and honed a superb show from a band playing at the zenith of their mighty collected powers. The clarity of David Palmer’s and John Evan’s organs tussling with the intricacies of rocked up, classical medieval musical tapestries, amid the full powered superbly played bedrock of Barre, Glascock and Barlow’s amped up attack, is what made this line up so special. The cerebral and the visceral colluding together to create musical magic and all wittily led by the irrepressible, impresario and frontman extraordinaire Ian Anderson. What Steven Wilson has achieved, as he is want to do, is to raise and separate the individual recorded parts so that they seemingly float apart and twine together as though individually buffed with a twist of musical gel. The double tracking of vocals on “The Mouse Police Never Sleeps” – a song about Anderson’s then cat keeping farmyard vermin at bay – and on “Journeyman” shine through where once they murkily dwelled in the deep ruts and grooves of the original vinyl recording. The same is true of Martin Barre’s double tracking of guitar on stand out ditties “No Lullaby” and the titular “Heavy Horses”. Wilson’s detectorist tendencies unearth the recorded gems lying just beneath the surface of these original recordings. Furthermore, the collection of additional songs deemed surplus to the albums mindset are a treasure trove of dusted down beauties. For Tull collectors, the inclusion of earlier, unreleased takes on the still relevant and topical “Living In These Hard Times”, a belting “Beltane” and the aching love song to his wife Shona that is Jack A Lynn – her middle name being Jacqueline – would have fitted in nicely if vinyl timings allowed. Elsewhere, there are the curios of “Botanical Man” a musical exercise in TV programme theme writing between Anderson and Palmer for a then David Bellamy series. A further two DVD’s bringing all the before into 5.1 surround sound, with contemporary videos and adverts patched in, are the thick icing on a cake for the listener to skate away on. As the latest Tull/Steven Wilson box set given the bells, whistles and flutes this is a masterpiece worthy of the venerable Heavy Horses themselves. “Bring me a wheel of oaken wood. A rein of polished leather. A Heavy Horse and a trembling sky. Brewing heavy weather”. Indeed! Jethro Tull Heavy Horses New Shoes Edition Anniversary edition features: 3 CDs and 2 DVDs of studio and live recordings. Extensive notes about the writing, recording and touring of the album. Track by track annotation by Ian Anderson. Lyrics for the album plus bonus tracks. Interviews with musicians Maddy Prior, Daryl Way and studio engineer Colin Leggett. Chrysalis Records.
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 15, 2018 8:46:24 GMT
www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/919093/music-review-rock-and-metal-albums-jethro-tull-saxonREVIEW: The Top 5 Rock and Metal new albums of the week from Jethro Tull to SaxonREVIEW: The best Rock and Metal albums of the week including Michael Schenker, Jethro Tull, Saxon, The Temperance Movement and The Bad Flowers. By PAUL DAVIES PUBLISHED: 20:18, Wednesday, February 14, 2018 and updated: 20:51, Wednesday, February 14, 2018** JETHRO TULL Heavy Horses New Shoes Anniversary Edition. (Chrysalis) 5 stars. Heavy Horses provided the meaty filling in an inspired trifecta of folk-rock releases by Jethro Tull upon its original release in 1978, as it galloped into the Top 20 on both sides of the Atlantic. Steven Wilson’s detectorist tendencies unearth the recorded gems lying just beneath the surface of these original recordings on this superbly remastered release. The double tracking of vocals on The Mouse Police Never Sleeps and on Journeyman shine through where once they murkily dwelled in the deep ruts and grooves of the original vinyl recording. The same is true of Martin Barre’s double tracking of guitar on stand out ditties No Lullaby and the titular Heavy Horses. It's also the album that spawned the live release Bursting Out. This 'new shoes' release ploughs a deep furrow by digging up and unearthing a complete live recording of the Berne concert from the 1978 Heavy Horses tour. It's the unexpurgated concert from which the studio ‘sweetened’ Bursting Out emerged. Jakko Jakszyk has polished up and honed a superb show from a band playing at the zenith of their mighty collected powers. A further two DVD’s bringing all the before into 5.1 surround sound, with contemporary videos and adverts patched in, are the thick icing on a cake for the listener to heartily indulge. As the latest Tull/Steven Wilson box set given the bells, whistles and flutes this is a masterpiece worthy of the venerable Heavy Horses themselves.
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Post by tullpress on Feb 15, 2018 12:11:15 GMT
So the 'Botanical Man' stuff is .. this .. I guess.
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 15, 2018 15:18:59 GMT
You're probably correct although I must admit I don't remember watching this back in the 70s. Hopefully it's in a longer edit/version on HH - New Shoes. Not as haunting or achingly beautiful as Coronach though.
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 15, 2018 22:09:27 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 15, 2018 23:33:32 GMT
Wait till you hear the long Coronach on Dee's album
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 15, 2018 23:33:57 GMT
She calls it "Forever Albion'
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Post by cecil on Feb 17, 2018 3:25:13 GMT
Nah that's not the song. We'll get to hear it soon though
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Post by bunkerfan on Feb 17, 2018 7:48:50 GMT
So the 'Botanical Man' stuff is .. this .. I guess. A David Bellamy lives just a few miles from me and I often see him and his wife in Aldi buying organic fruit and veg. Of course.
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 17, 2018 8:05:36 GMT
Nah that's not the song. We'll get to hear it soon though Thank heavens for that. Just for a nano second I thought we'd drifted into Area 51 or something.
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Post by argentull on Feb 17, 2018 16:09:00 GMT
Thanks to the guy who posted this in the Quadrophonic blog
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 26, 2018 16:27:00 GMT
40 years of ploughing their own furrow
Like some lordly pied piper, Ian Anderson has led Jethro Tull’s legions of followers through many changes in style across 50 years. Having marched them from relatively simple rock songs through to extended suites and concept albums, the release of Heavy Horses followed Songs From The Wood, journeying into a folkloric landscape filled with bucolic tales and a hearty song. Appropriating the kinetic energy of jigs and reels and harnessing it into Tull’s music seems natural now, but it wasn’t to some folk’s tastes back in the day. 40 years on, as this five-disc demonstrates, Anderson was right to follow his own instincts.
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden, his 1854 treatise on living in harmony with the land. One of the few writers in progressive music tackling the complexities and contradictions of the British class system, Anderson’s vision of a field tilled through an honest day’s work might suggest a romanticised portrait of the dignity of labour, but he’s canny enough to avoid unwelcome lapses into forelock-tugging nostalgia in his appreciation of times gone by.
Martin Barre’s biting tone and his impressive versatility imbue the material with such presence and vitality. That he carries off this animating role with such authority, regardless of whichever direction Tull embarked upon, speaks to the guitarist’s quiet, unflashy brilliance. Annotating the songs in much the same way that Anderson’s flute inscribes each track, Barre’s work possesses a reassuring depth, providing in a way a continuity of sorts that lets you know whatever the mode or muse, this is unmistakably, and authentically, Tull.
Barre is just one of the beneficiaries of Steven Wilson’s attention. Like his previous Tull remixes, Wilson manages the delicate business of simultaneously respecting the original parameters while broadening the available aural space. Delivering an impressive clarity, the elegant gallop of Rover, …And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps, and No Lullaby’s simmering percussion is especially exciting in their new, expansive settings.
The live show from Berne included in this edition packs such a terrific punch that it’s easy to understand why Anderson has been so effusive in his praise of King Crimson’s Jakko Jakszyk’s remixing efforts. While parts of 1978’s Bursting Out hailed from this performance, as good as that double album is, if you want to experience the full force of Tull in concert in the comfort of your own home, either in stereo or surround, this newly expanded version is definitely the one you should be reaching for.
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 26, 2018 21:12:18 GMT
I'm gonna go out on a limb and recklessly predict that this is gonna be good.
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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 27, 2018 2:41:54 GMT
I'm gonna go out on a limb and recklessly predict that this is gonna be good. Well said
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Post by jethrotull on Feb 27, 2018 4:16:56 GMT
As much as I've enjoyed Bursting Out over the past 40 years, I'm thrilled to learn that much of this newly released Berne concert has been unheard up to now (except of course by those who were there in the audience that night). It's great to know too that the reviewer preferred the sound of this Jakko mixed live recording, can't wait to hear it!
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 27, 2018 8:28:42 GMT
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Post by tullpress on Feb 28, 2018 20:03:53 GMT
OK, so the New Shoes arrive on Friday, but does anyone know anything about 'Everything In Our Lives' .. never previously known about?
What sort of critter is it?
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 28, 2018 23:52:52 GMT
We usually ask you when we don't know !
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Post by tullpress on Mar 1, 2018 11:44:46 GMT
Looks like I'll find out this evening -- New Shoes is due to be delivered at work today :-)
Pre-ordered from Amazon UK.
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Post by tullpress on Mar 1, 2018 15:32:13 GMT
Yep, it has arrived. Can't be arsed with photo buckets and whatnot, otherwise I'd take a nice pic of it.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 1, 2018 16:29:50 GMT
Yep, it has arrived. Can't be arsed with photo buckets and whatnot, otherwise I'd take a nice pic of it. A OK, I'll do the dirty deed [excuse the thumb]
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Post by argentull on Mar 1, 2018 16:56:08 GMT
SPOILED!
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Post by tullpress on Mar 1, 2018 18:48:25 GMT
Still in the pub with it (ale choice : The North Will Rise Again) .. but interesting to learn that only 5 tracks on Bursting Out were recorded at Berne. That’s a lot of new live music on these discs.
‘Everything in our Lives’ a compact 2 mins 45
Wasn’t expecting ‘Botanic Man’ to have lyrics .. assumed it was an instrumental.
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Post by tullpress on Mar 1, 2018 19:19:05 GMT
.. and ‘Botanic Man Theme’ notable for the worst couplet in IA’s entire career —
“Wearing caps pulled down like shutters On the windows of their brains.”
Dear me.
Looking forward to getting home slightly refreshed and giving this set a listen.
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Post by tullpress on Mar 1, 2018 19:38:59 GMT
.. after listening to the Man City v Arsenal game, that is ...
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Post by tullpress on Mar 1, 2018 22:25:17 GMT
'Living in these Hard Times' (version 2, with different string arrangement) -- yes, a good version, would have sit very nicely on the album. The flute takes a different melody line than version 1.
'Everything In Our Lives' -- one of those plodding jiggy ones, reminds me of 'Kelpie' .. which I really hated. This ends very abruptly, mercifully.
'Jack-a-Lynn' -- the same repeated Hammond chord is rather distracting and pointless ... nice enough, but it has an unfinished demo feel, none of the power of the 1982 version.
'Quatrain' -- includes IA saying "Oh f**k, sorry" .. and some other mumbling.
'Horse-Hoeing Husbandry' -- rumbles along for 4 mins 11 ... another demo-sounding piece, missing keyboards. Forgettable.
'Beltane' -- a classic! .. what can you say .. fantastic. Sounds great here. The sax high in the mix in the middle 8, adding an extra bit of Passion Play vibe.
'Botanic Man' -- something about the melody in the verses reminds me of 'Saved By a Bell' by Mike Oldfield. Sounds very 70s television .. vocal style a wee bit TOTRNR sounding. Harmless.
'Botanic Man Theme' -- a little instrumental ..
.. which seems unconnected to the band fragment titled 'A Town In England' in the lyric pages (though not elsewhere).
'Living In these Hard Times' version 2 and 'Beltane' are the keepers.
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Post by cecil on Mar 2, 2018 2:07:51 GMT
'Living in these Hard Times' (version 2, with different string arrangement) -- yes, a good version, would have sit very nicely on the album. The flute takes a different melody line than version 1. 'Everything In Our Lives' -- one of those plodding jiggy ones, reminds me of 'Kelpie' .. which I really hated. This ends very abruptly, mercifully. 'Jack-a-Lynn' -- the same repeated Hammond chord is rather distracting and pointless ... nice enough, but it has an unfinished demo feel, none of the power of the 1982 version. 'Quatrain' -- includes IA saying "Oh f**k, sorry" .. and some other mumbling. 'Horse-Hoeing Husbandry' -- rumbles along for 4 mins 11 ... another demo-sounding piece, missing keyboards. Forgettable. 'Beltane' -- a classic! .. what can you say .. fantastic. Sounds great here. The sax high in the mix in the middle 8, adding an extra bit of Passion Play vibe. 'Botanic Man' -- something about the melody in the verses reminds me of 'Saved By a Bell' by Mike Oldfield. Sounds very 70s television .. vocal style a wee bit TOTRNR sounding. Harmless. 'Botanic Man Theme' -- a little instrumental .. .. which seems unconnected to the band fragment titled 'A Town In England' in the lyric pages (though not elsewhere). 'Living In these Hard Times' version 2 and 'Beltane' are the keepers. A I’ll wait until I hear it cos I really like kelpie and really hate the drums on the 82 version of jackalynn
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