Jethro Tull

On September 18 and 19, the historic Kastel fortress will host two incredible nights of world music: The Amy Winehouse Band, with the late singer's original musicians, and the legendary Jethro Tull with Ian Anderson. From September 17…

British composer Dee Palmer, formerly known as David Palmer, a key figure in the sound of Jethro Tull, has died at the age of 88 in Shropshire, England. As Ian Anderson himself explained, she'd been dealing with a string of health…

Martin Barre, the acclaimed guitarist and former Jethro Tull member who spent more than four decades in the band, has just put out a new double live album (2CD format) titled "The Acoustic Trio And The Electric Quartet Live In The USA And…

Jethro Tull, the British prog rock icons, are putting out a reissue of their 1984 album "Under Wraps" on Chrysalis Records on May 15. The reissue is expanded, remastered and goes by the name "Under Wraps: The Unwrapped Edition". The new…

Legendary Jethro Tull are coming to Zagreb's Vatroslav Lisinski hall this October. Facebook event! One of the biggest names on the world prog rock scene is coming back to Zagreb! The legendary Jethro Tull will play the Vatroslav…

Mick Abrahams, the original guitarist of UK prog rock icons Jethro Tull, has died at the age of 82. Abrahams passed away on Friday, December 19, according to friends and family members. Martin Barre, who took over from Abrahams in…

Label: InsideOut Music / Sony MusicRelease date: March 7, 2025Produced by: Jethro TullAlbum length: 50.31 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 8.5/10 How is the average devotee of the legendary British prog rock institution Jethro…

Jethro TullTrieste / Politeama Rossetti / ItalyTuesday, 13 Feb 2024, 9:00 PM – 11:10 PM Jethro Tull, the iconic British prog-rock pioneers who last June — for the first time in 23 years — honoured us with their third visit to…

Jethro TullLjubljana / Hala Tivoli / SloveniaSunday, 3 June 2023, 8:00 PM The traditionally overcast prog-rock skies above Slovenia have, after a long string of dry years in terms of genre heavyweights showing up at our local venues…

Label: Sony Music / InsideOut MusicRelease date: 4/21/2023Production: Ian AndersonAlbum length: 44.24 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 8.5/10 The legend of the English farmer 'adorned' with a giant wig, who in 1968, more than two…

Label: Insideout Music Release date: January 28, 2022 Production: Ian Anderson Album length: 46.45 min Genre: Progressive Rock / Folk Rock Rating: 8.0/10 After nineteen years of total studio silence, the prog rock champions Jethro Tull…

Label: Rhino RecordsRelease date: 16 April 2021Sound production (remix, remaster): Steven WilsonNumber of discs: 3CD/3DVDGenre: Progressive Rock The years roll by and the anniversaries pile up. Jethro Tull albums aren't the only…

Prog rock giants Jethro Tull, led by their unbridled, energetic, lucid, sarcastic and charismatic frontman Ian Anderson, rock's most famous flautist, who has always known how to poke at social sore spots with his one-of-a-kind lyrics and…

""Squeezed between two more successful Jethro Tull albums and unfairly overlooked in the band's vast discography, the excellent "Benefit" nevertheless holds the key that opened the door for them to record, the following year, a huge album,…

"In other words, you got a sense of what Jethro Tull would sound like without the flute — or even what some of the originals from the late sixties and early seventies sounded like without it."

location: Vienna / Wiener Stadthalle, Halle F / Austria date: Monday, December 10, 2018 Ask the average well-read Earthling what comes to mind at the words Jethro Tull and you'll get "flute," "rock'n'roll," and right after that, of course,…

A jam-packed Dom sportova hall in Zagreb got a helping of eternal Jethro Tull classics, with a well-executed show and a nicely stitched-together setlist, but it never quite hit the peaks.

The jam-packed Dom Sportova arena in Zagreb got a helping of eternal Jethro Tull classics, with a well-executed show and a nicely stitched-together setlist, but it never really hit any peaks.

“In Concert” lands squarely in the middle of the official live albums released so far by the prog folk rock legends, which means it's only of interest to the most devoted Jethro Tull fans.

The definitive "Aqualung" reissue is a reward for every longtime fan who patiently waited for the sound quality the album should have had when it first came out in 1971.

Location: Seebronn (Rottenburg a. d. Neckar) / Festivalgelände / GermanyDate: 07/28/2011 In the state of Baden-Württemberg, a few dozen kilometers south of Stuttgart, the Rock of Ages festival goes down every year. As the name of…

A great evening of music masters we'll be hiccuping over for years to come.. which is exactly why you need to make the most of gigs like these, the kind the Rock of Ages festival offers, starting today, because tomorrow might already be too…

"A Classic Case" is an album aimed first and foremost at the band's die-hard fans and at collectors of everything these indestructible folk prog rock forefathers have put out.

Author: Peter PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Venue: Kasemattenbühne / Graz / AustriaConcert date: 01.07.2010Attendance: 1200Ticket price: 49,00€ Spending an evening with the progressive folk rock legends Jethro Tull, who under the…

Everyone living on the edge of the woods or in freshly mown fields will prick up their ears with extra excitement at "Live At Madison Square Garden", because the whole recording easily ranks among the best Tull live documents.

With its limited and offbeat selection of performances, "Live At Hammersmith '84" is hardly the best snapshot of what a typical Tull show looked like, so nobody but the die-hard faithful will miss it in their collection.

Author: Peter PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Piazzale del Castello / Udine / ItalyConcert date: 02.07.2009Attendance: 5000Ticket price: €30.00 For part of the Rockline crew, catching the English progressive folk rock legends…

"Nightcap" is a collection of some never-before-released goodies and early forms of later standards, plus three decades' worth of studio ballast that's interesting mostly from a historical standpoint.

»Live At Montreux« isn't the best official live recording from the prog rock legends, but it's far from the worst. In terms of quality, it sits in the upper tier of their live albums.

With the live album "Aqualung Live," Jethro Tull have finally proven that in their fifth decade of existence they've become a textbook case of aging music legends living off the fruits of past glories, while the

In 1970, Jethro Tull helped make rock history as one of the elite bands to play the legendary Isle Of Wight festival, which today is considered the British version of Woodstock. As far as attendan

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Location: Arena Campagnola / Schio / ItalyConcert date: 03.07.2008Attendance: 0 Almost a year after our last run-in with Jethro Tull in Graz, where we also had that unforgettable interview with Ian Anderson, the…

Releasing Christmas albums is apparently turning into a trend among legendary bands who've run out of creative steam in their golden years and are increasingly being eaten away by the rust of missing imagination. How else do you explain

"Living With The Past" is not a sequel to "Living In The Past" (1972), the compilation album so beloved among the band's followers, but Jethro Tull's third official live album, released ten years after

Jethro Tull are back after a three-year break with a thoroughly solid album, whose downright odd title is actually the address of their brand-new website at the time. "J-Tull Dot Com" is their first album that

The mischievous bearded old man in the pirate hat and his crew were surely none too happy with the general reaction of the crowd when »Catfish Rising« (1991) came out, a rather unnecessary and not very successful blues experiment

Since the release of the excellent "Bursting Out" (1978), Jethro Tull's first live album, quite a few years passed before its follow-up arrived. In that time the band went through many ups and downs, constant sonic changes

After trying out nearly every major genre within the concept of his band over the years (from blues, hard rock, prog rock, folk rock, electronica, synth pop, and so on), the indestructible Ian Anderson found himself seriously running out of…

Ian Anderson, that cheeky Scottish uncle with a flute in one hand and a pipe in the other, and his slightly less shameless band of merry men must have been laughing all the way to heaven when, after the release of »Crest Of A Knave« (1987),…

"Crest Of A Knave" is both the story of the biggest joke in Jethro Tull history and the story of the resurrection of a band that was already clinically half-dead, one that rose from the ashes like a mythical phoenix after the dismal "Under…

Author: Aleš Podbrežnik, Peter Podbrežnik Concert date: 09.07.2007Attendance: 67Ticket price: 9.000 Our eardrums, cranked to the max, hadn't even cooled down from the previous night's scorching action in Bled (John Lawton & Mary Rose,…

Legendary flutist and singer Ian Anderson is without a doubt one of the greatest personalities in the history of rock music. Since the late '60s, his band Jethro Tull has built a reputation as one of the most respected and long-lived rock…

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Location: Orpheum Theater / Graz / AustriaConcert date: 06.07.2007Attendance: 1300 On the very same day as the big interview with the legendary master Ian Anderson, which was without a doubt a one-of-a-kind…

Location: Fiera della Musica / Azzano Decimo (Pordenone) / ItalyConcert date: 28.06.2007Attendance: 3Ticket price: 22.00€ Azzano Decimo, a mere 11 km from Pordenone, where else but in the plowed-up, pesticide-soaked Po plain of…

Sometimes even the greatest masters seriously drop the ball and turn out a half-baked product that, even after the test of time, still doesn't make them proud and sounds like the fruit of their worst nightmare or a side prod

Even though Ian Anderson stares out at us from the album cover with a cynical grin, like some kind of winged, sword-wielding elf warrior while a Viking longship tosses on choppy waves behind him, on "The Br

After the "Stormwatch" (1979) tour wrapped up, Ian Anderson, a distant descendant of the rowdy Greek god Pan and the cunning Pied Piper of Hamelin, decided to record his first solo album, with which he wanted to prove to certain inconsol

Label: Chrysalis RecordsRelease date: 8/29/1980Produced by: Ian Anderson & Robin BlackAlbum length: 42:30 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 8.5/10 After the end of the »Stormwatch« (1979) tour, Ian Anderson, a distant descendant…

A cold wind has blown in from the North Sea toward the Scottish Hebrides, heralding creatively darker times for the folk rock crew Jethro Tull, unsinkable until then, and their captain Ian Anderson, who was slowly

By the time their first (double) live album "Bursting Out" came out, Jethro Tull were at the peak of their creative output in the world of progressive folk rock, and still riding the fresh wave of the tour for the unforgettable masterpiece

Which rock band or musician would be capable of dedicating an album to a noble breed of ancient country horses facing extinction? The answer is dead simple, because the only real farmers among rockers have always been just

Ian Anderson, the undisputed chieftain and personification of Jethro Tull, was a born Scottish country boy who has always loved living in close contact with nature and animals (besides sprawling farms, fish hatcheries and greenhouses, he…

Progressive folk rock legends Jethro Tull are inexorably closing in on their 40th anniversary, which they'll mark, let's hope, with the release of the long-awaited new studio album that their l

One question Ian Anderson still gets asked in interviews all the time is: are Jethro Tull really too old to rock 'n' roll? A pretty tasteless, almost grotesque question, even today

The untamed troubadours of progressive folk rock went looking for creative inspiration this time in the baroque era of Elizabethan theater and folk lore, which fit perfectly with the established image of their brilliant chieftain Ian…

Ian Anderson and his merry band of prog-rock troubadours have gone back to tighter songs on "Warchild", and in terms of mood, back to something a little brighter and wittier

Riding high on the wings of their unforgettable masterpiece »Thick As a Brick« (1972), Jethro Tull headed to France, where they started recording a new concept album at the legendary Chateau D’Herouville studio, and its sound changed…

When Jethro Tull comes up in a musical (and not a historical or agricultural) context, the average, musically aware person usually pictures Ian Anderson, who for most of the music crowd is

After the classic "Aqualung" (1971) turned Jethro Tull from a cult band into a world-class act, the many eyes of the (prog) rock world were glued to Ian Anderson and his cunning crew of musical perfectionists and innovators

" "Thick As A Brick" is a timeless progressive rock masterpiece that has stood the test of time all these years later and still remains an unattainable benchmark for plenty of creative musicians who'd love to get anywhere near the lofty…

What do the pedophilic tramp Aqualung, the underage prostitute Cross-eyed Mary, and the frigid, notorious village schoolteacher her pupils nicknamed Mother Goose have in common? They're not characters out of Kersnik's Village

"Aqualung" is the pivotal album in the band's history and one of the greatest works in the story of rock music, the record that cemented Jethro Tull among the immortal giants of rock. At the same time, it pushed the band up to a higher…

Before the release of their third album, Jethro Tull, with the singles "Sweet Dream" and "Witch's Promise", were already one of the most successful and promising bands of early progressive rock. "Benefit"

" "Benefit" is not only better produced, it's a far more mature album than its predecessor. It's where the band finally shaped its signature identity. "

After a bluesy start with "This Was" (1968), Jethro Tull decided to change their sound and musical direction on "Stand Up". That meant gradually dropping the blues elements and steering into folk-hard rock waters,

Label: Island RecordsRelease date: 7/25/1969Production: Terry Ellis & Ian AndersonAlbum length: 37.48 minGenre: Folk Rock / Blues Rock / Heavy Rock / JazzRating: 8.0/10 After the bluesy start of "This Was" (1968), Jethro Tull…

"This Was" is the very first album by the legendary Jethro Tull. Back then, as singer, flautist and bandleader Ian Anderson stressed more than once, Jethro Tull were "a small blues band". But an incredibly talented blues band,

"Even though Jethro Tull only showed their true musical direction and full potential on later albums, "This Was" is a thoroughly likable "progressive blues" record that shines above all in its remarkable originality."

Location: Munich (Germany), Tollwood FestivalConcert date: June 20, 2005Attendance: 0Ticket price: 35.50 € Everything was under control until I stepped through the entrance of the tent at the grounds of the annual Tollwood…

Venue: Graz (Austria), KassemattenbühneConcert date: 03.08.2004Attendance: 900Ticket price: 34,00€ If Jethro Tull slipped through my fingers in Zagreb at the end of May (yes, that was that unlucky-and-lucky day when German heavy…