The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
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| The Jethro Tull Christmas Album | |||||
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| Studio album (Christmas) by Jethro Tull | |||||
| Released | September 30, 2003 (U.S.) | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 62:16 | ||||
| Label | RandM Records (UK) & Fuel 2000 (U.S.) | ||||
| Producer | Ian Anderson | ||||
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The Jethro Tull Christmas Album is an album released by Jethro Tull on September 30, 2003 (see 2003 in music). The songs are a mix of new material, re-recordings of Tull's own suitably-themed material and arrangements of traditional Christmas music.
Ian Anderson about the song Birthday Card at Christmas: " My daughter Gael, like millions of other unfortunates, celebrates her birthday within a gnat’s whisker of Christmas. Overshadowed by the Great Occasion, such birthdays can be flat, perfunctory and fleetingly token in their uneventful passing. The daunting party and festive celebration of the Christian calendar overshadows too, some might argue, the humble birthday of one Mr. J. Christ. Funny old 25ths, Decembers…"
[edit] Track listing
- "Birthday Card at Christmas" – 3:37
- "Holly Herald" (Instrumental) – 4:16
- "A Christmas Song" – 2:47
- "Another Christmas Song" – 3:31
- "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" (Instrumental) – 4:35
- "Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow" – 3:37
- "Last Man at the Party" – 4:48
- "Weathercock" – 4:17
- "Pavane" (Instrumental) – 4:19
- "First Snow on Brooklyn" – 4:57
- "Greensleeved" (Instrumental) – 2:39
- "Fire at Midnight" – 2:26
- "We Five Kings" (Instrumental) – 3:16
- "Ring Out Solstice Bells" – 4:04
- "Bourée" (Instrumental) – 4:25
- "A Winter Snowscape" (Instrumental) – 4:57
[edit] External links
- The Jethro Tull Christmas Album 2003 at Allmusic
- The Jethro Tull Christmas Album 2004 at Allmusic (bonus dvd)
- Official Website
- Progressive Archives
- DPRP CD Review
- Rolling Stone Review

