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Jethro Tull – Original Album Series - Volume Two / Chrysalis 5x Audio CD 2016
UPC 0825646007677
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UK five CD box set. The Original Album Series contains a quintet of albums packaged in mini-LP sleeves and housed in a slip case. This set includes the following albums by the British folk/prog legends: Under Wraps, Crest Of A Knave, Rock Island, Catfish Rising and Roots To Branches.
Tracklist:
| Under Wraps (2005 Remastered Version) | ||
| 1-1 | Lap Of Luxury | |
| 1-2 | Under Wraps #1 | |
| 1-3 | European Legacy | |
| 1-4 | Later That Same Evening | |
| 1-5 | Saboteur | |
| 1-6 | Radio Free Moscow | |
| 1-7 | Nobody's Car | |
| 1-8 | Heat | |
| 1-9 | Under Wraps #2 | |
| 1-10 | Paparazzi | |
| 1-11 | Apogee | |
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Crest Of A Knave |
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| 2-1 | Steel Monkey | |
| 2-2 | Farm On The Freeway | |
| 2-3 | Jump Start | |
| 2-4 | She Said She Was A Dancer | |
| 2-5 | Budapest | |
| 2-6 | Mountain Men | |
| 2-7 | Raising Steam | |
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Rock Island |
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| 3-1 | Kissing Willie | |
| 3-2 | The Rattlesnake Trail | |
| 3-3 | Ears Of Tin | |
| 3-4 | Undressed To Kill | |
| 3-5 | Rock Island | |
| 3-6 | Heavy Water | |
| 3-7 | Another Christmas Song | |
| 3-8 | The Whaler's Dues | |
| 3-9 | Big Riff And Mando | |
| 3-10 |
Strange Avenues | |
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Catfish Rising |
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| 4-1 | This Is Not Love | |
| 4-2 | Occasional Demons | |
| 4-3 | Roll Yer Own | |
| 4-4 | Rocks On The Road | |
| 4-5 | Sparrow On The Schoolyard Wall | |
| 4-6 | Thinking Round Corners | |
| 4-7 | Still Loving You Tonight | |
| 4-8 | Doctor To My Disease | |
| 4-9 | Like A Tall Thin Girl | |
| 4-10 | White Innocence | |
| 4-11 | Sleeping With The Dog | |
| 4-12 | Gold Tipped Boots, Black Jacket And Tie | |
| 4-13 | When Jesus Came To Play | |
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Roots To Branches |
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| 5-1 | Roots To Branches | |
| 5-2 | Rare And Precious Chain | |
| 5-3 | Out Of The Noise | |
| 5-4 | This Free Will | |
| 5-5 | Valley | |
| 5-6 | Dangerous Veils | |
| 5-7 | Beside Myself | |
| 5-8 | Wounded Old And Treacherous | |
| 5-9 | At Last Forever | |
| 5-10 | Stuck In The August Rain | |
| 5-11 | Another Harry's Bar | |
About the Band:
Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire, in 1967. Initially playing blues rock and jazz fusion, the band later developed their sound to incorporate elements of hard rock and folk to forge a progressive rock signature. The band is led by vocalist/flautist/guitarist Ian Anderson, and has featured a revolving door of lineups through the years including significant members such as guitarists Mick Abrahams and Martin Barre, keyboardists John Evan and Dee Palmer, drummers Clive Bunker, Barriemore Barlow, and Doane Perry, and bassists Glenn Cornick, Jeffrey Hammond, John Glascock, and Dave Pegg.
The group first achieved commercial success in 1969, with the folk-tinged electric blues album Stand Up, which reached No. 1 in the UK, and they toured regularly in the UK and the US. Their musical style shifted in the direction of progressive rock with the albums Aqualung (1971), Thick as a Brick (1972) and A Passion Play (1973), and shifted again to hard rock mixed with folk rock with Songs from the Wood (1977) and Heavy Horses (1978). After an excursion into electronic rock in the early-to-mid 1980s, the band won its sole Grammy Award with the 1987 album Crest of a Knave. Jethro Tull have sold an estimated 60 million albums worldwide, with 11 gold and five platinum albums among them. They have been described by Rolling Stone as "one of the most commercially successful and eccentric progressive rock bands".
The last works as a group to contain new material were released in 2003, though the band continued to tour until 2011. Anderson said Jethro Tull were finished in 2014; however, in September 2017 he announced plans for a tour to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the band's first album This Was. The compilation 50 for 50 was released in 2018.
The reformed group—now billed as "Ian Anderson and the Jethro Tull band"—still performs live, and has announced tour dates into 2020. The current band line-up includes musicians who have been members of Anderson's solo band since 2012.
