Christmas Album [Import]

Jethro Tull (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 24, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
• ASIN: B002SR3T10
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,484 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Birthday Card At Christmas

2. Holly Herald

3. A Christmas Song

4. Another Christmas Song

5. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

6. Jack Frost And The Hooded Crow

7. Last Man At The Party

8. Weathercock

9. Pavane

10. First Snow On Brooklyn

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Weathercock

2. Introduction: Rev. George Pitcher/Choir: What Cheer

3. A Christmas Song

4. Living In These Hard Times

5. Choir: Silent Night

6. Reading: Ian Anderson, Marmion

7. Jack In The Green

8. Another Christmas Song

9. Reading: Gavin Esler, God's Grandeur

10. Choir: Oh, Come All Ye Faithful

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Special two CD edition of this holiday release from the veteran Rockers featuring the original Jethro Tull Christmas Album (2003) plus the more recent recording Jethro Tull - Live At St Brides. Last Christmas, Jethro Tull performed and recorded a live concert at St Bride's Church in London. The profits from all tickets sold for the service, went to The Connection at St Martins, a charitable facility for the care of London's homeless community. Ian Anderson's view is that "we all have a duty of care and responsibility to help the less fortunate." EMI.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful, December 4, 2009

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Everett H. Bigwood Jr. (New Market, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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Should you pursue this for the second disc: "Jethro Tull Live/Christmas at St. Bride's 2008"? I must qualify my opinion: I collect both Jethro Tull and select Christmas recordings, so this issue should be a "can't miss" for me--and it is. The St. Bride's disc alternates between gorgeously rendered Tull offerings, tasteful St. Bride's choir pieces (four voices:quaint and charming), and select seasonal readings. Ian reads an excerpt from Walter Scott's "Marmion," and his son-in-law (on the occasion of his wife's birthday) reads a piece called "Christmas." "The Ballad of the Breadman," though, is especially provocative. A surreal moment? How about when Tull plays "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman" for the offertory, and it's interrupted for a blessing?

The set is tastefully packaged. Gone are the lyrics from the original "Christmas Album," but Ian and the reverend of St. Bride's contribute essays dated August 2009. This may be the only time the Tull lineup of Anderson, Barre, O'Hara, Goodier, and Duncan is recorded on a commercially available disc; if so, I would say it carries on a remarkable legacy most suitably. At the time of this posting, English "Marketplace" merchants are offering the collection for under twenty dollars, and mine arrived in seven days. Don't hesitate to buy it.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I'm a sucker for Jethro Tull and Christmas Music, December 6, 2010

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Phil Scarr (Waukesha, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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I have to admit to being a total sucker for Jethro Tull and Christmas music. I've been a huge JT fan since the 1970s and have followed their career through the dark days of A and even J-Tull Dot Com. Highs and lows, highs and lows. But my favorite period has to be the Minstrel in the Gallery / Heavy Horses / Songs From the Wood period. I guess I was an impressionable youth at the time and the music imprinted on my a love for English folk songs and folk traditions that I've extended though further explorations into actual English folk music. But I always come back to JT in the end.

The "Christmas Album" sits squarely in that tradition and, in fact, includes a few tunes from that period. It's a warm hearth on a cold winter night. All the songs here evoke a simpler time, a snow covered field with a thatched house in the distance, windows twinkling with light. Like the Moody Blues Christmas album, December, this is a wonderful collection to add to your holiday mix.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Tull xmas cd, February 17, 2010

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John W. Allen (Australia) - See all my reviews
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Have all of Tull's records since the first one in '69. Same great music and simply the best way to get into the Christmas mood [with a hot toddy as well]. Bring on next solstice Mr Anderson