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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 15, 2020 17:53:34 GMT
Thanks to Botanicman for the heads up Martin Barre to release personal best of Jethro TullMartin Barre celebrates his own 50th anniversary with Jethro Tull with double CD set. Former Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre celebrates his own 50th anniversary of being a member of Jethro Tull by announcing his own 50 Years Of Jethro Tull double CD release for November 6 through Store For Music. This is album is a personal and revealing collection of both live and studio tracks, carefully chosen by Martin Barre himself, that he feels illustrates and illuminates his work with Tull over an incredible half century. The album will feature four bonus tracks, previously unavailable, these were recorded at The Wildey Theatre, Illinois, in May 2019. “So… finally we have arrived at year number 50!," says Barre. "Is it important? Yes, of course and it must be celebrated with due care and thought hence this double CD which showcases some of my favourite tracks, plus four bonus tracks. Personally…I’m looking forward to year 51 and beyond!! So, with a big nod to history, I will take my guitar on the road and continue my love affair! I hope you will join me! Thank you!” www.loudersound.com/news/martin-barre-to-release-personal-best-of-jethro-tull
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 19, 2020 1:09:06 GMT
MARTIN BARRE – ’50 YEARS OF JETHRO TULL’ DOUBLE CD PERSONAL RETROSPECTIVE WITH 4 BONUS TRACKS LINK
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Post by stevep on Oct 15, 2020 21:22:59 GMT
Was able to get my hands on a copy of Martins new album yesterday. Very (very) impressed with it. Well worth a listen if you get the chance. Does anyone know who is singing on 'The Waking Edge" ?
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Post by jackinthegreen on Oct 16, 2020 0:18:41 GMT
The album is on Amazon UK, but at £15.99 .......no thanks at that price.
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 16, 2020 1:34:15 GMT
It's pretty good and available to stream on Amazon. A bit all over the map: acoustic, electric, instrumental, Female vocals, Crisp vocals...nice surprises the first couple times through but not that much that felt truly 'new' to a thorough fan like me. I understand Martin's reliance on and rights to the Tull catalog but for my time and money, "Stage Left and 'Meeting' material the best. He should be proud of his own compositions and electric guitar unique style.
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Post by jackinthegreen on Oct 16, 2020 22:43:02 GMT
It's pretty good and available to stream on Amazon. A bit all over the map: acoustic, electric, instrumental, Female vocals, Crisp vocals...nice surprises the first couple times through but not that much that felt truly 'new' to a thorough fan like me. I understand Martin's reliance on and rights to the Tull catalog but for my time and money, "Stage Left and 'Meeting' material the best. He should be proud of his own compositions and electric guitar unique style. I agree mate, for me, Martin's band doing Tull songs are just a great cover band, Martin needs to be playing in Ian's Jethro Tull to be at home if you understand me. Great player of Tulls material, but 99% written by IA and if he isn't playing with Ian in the band it's not real IMHO. Martin's own stuff is mediocre There is not any brilliant songs to compare with the stuff Ian wrote all the years he was in the band (IMHO)
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 7, 2020 16:12:56 GMT
morningstaronline.co.uk/Martin Barre 50 Years Of Jethro Tull Store For Music 4 Stars Lead guitarist Martin Barre joined Jethro Tull in 1968 and played on all the classic Tull albums — starting with 1969s Stand Up, 1970s Benefit and is credited with playing one of the greatest ever rock guitar solo’s on Aqualung. Ian Anderson disbanded Tull in 2011 and Barre hit the road playing the Tull songbook. This double set features rerecordings of a cross-section of Tull’s material from early tracks like My Sunday Feeling, Nothing Is Easy, Song For Jeffrey, and hits like Teacher on the first disc and Locomotive Breath, Someday The Sun Won’t Shine and One White Duck on the more acoustic disc two. Bungle In The Jungle, Heavy Horses, Warchild and Songs From The Wood come from a DVD of a May 2019 show in Illinois — and Barre plays the flute too. link
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 29, 2020 7:34:38 GMT
somethingelsereviews.com/Martin Barre – ’50 Years of Jethro Tull’ (2020)DECEMBER 28, 2020 BY ROSS BOISSONEAU Guitarist Martin Barre is best known, of course, for his lengthy tenure in Jethro Tull. He was alongside Tullmeister Ian Anderson from 1969’s Stand Up, the unit’s second long player, all the way to the band’s demise in 2011. That’s when Anderson decided to jettison the band and band name to tour and record under his own name, leaving Barre to do the same. Cognizant of the fact that his name didn’t stir the masses the way the Jethro Tull brand did despite several excellent solo albums, Barre decided to celebrate the band’s career himself. Commemorating a half century of his work in the band, the two-disc set 50 Years of Jethro Tull hits both high and low points. It’s actually a bit of a jumble. The first disc features Dan Crisp on vocals, with both Barre and Crisp on guitars. Crisp’s bluesy rock ‘n’ roll approach is quite appropriate for the hard-rocking “Steel Monkey,” while “Hymn 43” is also dynamic and worth the price of admission. Those songs, along with “Bungle in the Jungle” and “Songs From the Wood,” are well-known to casual fans. The majority of the tracks on 50 Years of Jethro Tull, however, are lesser known – and that helps militate against direct comparisons. It’s a good idea since ears which are so attuned to the originals with Anderson’s voice out front might have a difficult time not feeling these updates are inferior. That’s the challenge of so many alumni efforts, unless there’s a distinct effort to change things up enough to delineate them from the classic versions. In that regard, Disc Two of 50 Years of Jethro Tull is more successful, as the inclusion of Becca Langsford on lead vocals gives the tracks a completely different sound and feel. It’s much like the Security Project, which reimagines the music of Peter Gabriel. Longtime Gabriel band drummer Jerry Marotta heads the band, much as Barre headlines this Tullish outfit. The Security Project swapped out a male vocalist for frontwoman Happy Rhoades, and their music took on a new dimension. Same here. Langsford’s versions of “Under Wraps,” “Life Is a Long Song,” and “Warchild” breathe new life into those chestnuts. An acoustic “Locomotive Breath” is a revelation, featuring Barre on mandolin. What’s not up for discussion is Martin Barre’s mastery of the guitar. His crunching backgrounds and distinct lead lines are as scintillating as ever. That’s when it’s easy to close your eyes and imagine yourself at a Jethro Tull concert in the ’70s, when the band was at its commercial peak. Even later tracks saw the band – and Barre – keeping its sense of what worked, despite the fact that styles were changing. When Martin Barre and company remake the familiar or even the not-so-familiar, everything old does become new again. link
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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 21, 2021 13:34:01 GMT
Texas Music News aka Houston Music News aka Music News Published on Dec 2, 2020 LINK
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Post by rredmond on Mar 1, 2021 15:59:55 GMT
Ooooo, it's on Spotify. Good way for me to take a listen for free before going mp3 hunting. So far it sounds good!
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Post by rredmond on Mar 1, 2021 17:55:37 GMT
So far it has a very "Little Light Music" vibe. I'm diggin it!
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 24, 2021 6:24:15 GMT
getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/09/album-review-martin-barre-50-years-of-jethro-tull/Album review: MARTIN BARRE – 50 Years Of Jethro Tull (2-CD)Posted on September 26, 2020 by GRTR! HQ On Sunday 18 October, Martin Barre chatted to Pete Feenstra for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, about his time in Tull and beyond. (40:33) The Store For Music [Release date 16.10.20] The first thing to say is that the cover, both inside and out, of this 50 year celebration is a tad misleading. You could be forgiven for thinking that it is a retrospective of Martin Barre’s Tull career to date drawn from original sources. In actual fact, it is essentially studio re-recordings of his career with Tull that was sold on his merch stand during 2019. And, perhaps frustratingly for fans, now replete with the ubiquitous bonus tracks although in fairness they are grabbed from a forthcoming DVD which should also be an essential purchase. Barre’s 50 year gig in 2019 was one of the highlights of the year when our reviewer Alan Jones commented “… in much the same way as Steve Hackett has done with the Genesis legacy – (he) has put together an outstanding group of musicians to both perpetuate ‘Tull’s awesome 50 year legacy and, perhaps, to demonstrate what an intrinsic part of the ‘Tull sound he was (is) in his own right.” Stretched over two CDs, this album is testimony to Barre’s good taste and a great band, with Dan Crisp on vocals adding much to the proceedings. A bit like Nad Sylvain with Steve Hackett’s Genesis material he is close enough to the original vocal approach without being a copyist. He’s also pretty nifty on second guitar. Bassist Alan Thomson and Darby Todd (drums) provide a formidable rhythm section but keyboard player Josiah J is used sparingly. You can best describe Barre’s guitar work throughout as muscular and economical, which brings fresh breath to the hallowed catalogue. Like Hackett with the Genesis material, he has carefully and cleverly updated the arrangements where necessary such as on ‘Love Story’. Only occasionally does the guitarist fail to ignite former wig outs like ‘Hunting Girl’. But it’s Disc 2 which is the real revelation. The anniversary gig in 2019 was highlighted by an acoustic segment with Alex Hart and Becca Langsford on vocals. They lend their talents to 9 of the 15 tracks including ‘The Waking Edge’ with John Carter on lead vocals and a sublime ‘Life Is A Long Song’. In fact the addition of female lead vocals – harking back to Barre’s 1996 solo album ‘The Meeting’ – is a deft touch. ‘Locomotive Breath’ in particular benefits from a less predictable “slowed down” rootsy feel akin to something Larkin Poe or Wildwood Kin might perform. There’s a liner note insert from Barre but sadly no reference to the circumstances of this recording, not least the approach to repurposing and reshaping. The four live bonuses were recorded in the USA in May 2019 and include ‘Bungle In The Jungle’ and ‘Heavy Horses’ perhaps lacking the heft of old but still very relevant. When he started out in solo form Barre tended to focus on the earlier years of the Tull songbook, this compilation includes a healthy cross-section of the repertoire so – for example – we get ‘Steel Monkey’ rubbing shoulders with ‘Teacher’ and a wonderful ‘Under Wraps’ with ‘Cheap Day Return’. When I interviewed Martin not long after his breakaway from Tull, in 2014, I laboured the fact that he never derived income from the songs, nearly all attributed to Ian Anderson, even though his guitar playing was integral and intrinsic to each. Of course this is typical industry practice but the more enlightened bands would now perhaps be more generous in their attribution. When you recall, for example, that Barre’s solo on ‘Aqualung’ (absent here, by the way) was definitive you would also better understand that premise. You get the sense that this was never discussed with Anderson who ruled the roost whilst his loyal lieutenant stamped his indelible imprint over a forty year period. Whilst the records are still selling, and the band gigging, that might be OK but once sales dry up (or less lucrative digital kicks in) and the band no longer tours regularly then the gravy train grinds to a halt. With Tull in his rear view mirror Martin should be applauded for striking out on his own and fashioning new music amongst the classics. In normal non-Covid times, there is arguably more chance of hearing time-worn Tull classics with Barre than with Anderson. And he even plays flute! ****1/2 Review by David Randall
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Post by tull4ever on Jul 19, 2021 20:03:07 GMT
Im not sure the girls vocals work on this,they are good singers but it doesnt seem right for these Tull songs,they work well on Martins origonal tunes though,just my opinion of course.
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Post by adospencer on Jul 19, 2021 21:56:25 GMT
Im not sure the girls vocals work on this,they are good singers but it doesnt seem right for these Tull songs,they work well on Martins origonal tunes though,just my opinion of course. Any Vocals are better than the truly awful sneering style of Dan Crisp
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Post by tull4ever on Jul 20, 2021 9:39:27 GMT
Im not sure the girls vocals work on this,they are good singers but it doesnt seem right for these Tull songs,they work well on Martins origonal tunes though,just my opinion of course. Any Vocals are better than the truly awful sneering style of Dan Crisp I think Dan does a decent job to be fair ,the guy Martin had in the 1st incarnation was not so good (It Bites singer) Dans voice grows on you,but hes got big shoes to fill as Ian in the 70's was pretty darn good as a singer. For Ian to say he doesnt consider himself a natural singer is selling himself short. This guy does an analysis of 3 vocalists and the results speak for themself matthewjrparsons.com/2013/08/04/ian-anderson-is-a-better-singer-than-you-probably-think/
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 21, 2021 6:01:20 GMT
Any Vocals are better than the truly awful sneering style of Dan Crisp I think Dan does a decent job to be fair ,the guy Martin had in the 1st incarnation was not so good (It Bites singer) Dans voice grows on you,but hes got big shoes to fill as Ian in the 70's was pretty darn good as a singer. For Ian to say he doesnt consider himself a natural singer is selling himself short. This guy does an analysis of 3 vocalists and the results speak for themself matthewjrparsons.com/2013/08/04/ian-anderson-is-a-better-singer-than-you-probably-think/I saw the first line up of Martin's band in Tavistock back in 2012 and I'll be honest I wasn't impressed by the singer one John Mitchell who even hadn't bothered to learn the words and sang using the lyrics on a small lectern. Wikipedia quotes In 2012, with the end of Jethro Tull touring, Martin assembled a band to tour and record the compilation/live titled Martin Barre. The line up included former Tull members Jonathan Noyce and Doane Perry (who split duties with drummer Fred Moreau), John Mitchell, and guitarist Pat O'May.
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