Songs from the Wood

Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood

Songs from the Wood
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Artist: Jethro Tull
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-05-20
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
  1. Songs from the Wood
  2. Jack-In-The-Green
  3. Cup of Wonder
  4. Hunting Girl
  5. Ring Out Solstice Bells
  6. Velvet Green
  7. Whistler
  8. Pibroch (Cap in Hand)
  9. Fire at Midnight
  10. Beltane [*]
  11. Velvet Green [Live][*]

Free Music Notes for Songs from the Wood

Free Music Review: true album-oriented rock
Hit: 5 Stars

When I first heard this album, at its time of release in the 70s, I was hooked. Coming from an Anglo-Saxon heritage, it naturally stirs my soul and is one of those rare albums that gives one the illusion of a total diversion from the present day when sequestered under headphones. It is by far the very best of Tull to me, if I were made to make a choice. A lot of thought, and no doubt research into madrigals, went into its concept. At its release, no one had conceptualized whole albums like Tull could. What's remarkable is how repeatedly playable the album was, and still is, at a time when no one published recordings anything like them.

Songs from the Wood Poster

Digitally remastred reissue of 1977 album includes two bonus tracks 'Beltane' (taken from the album 20 Years of Jethro Tull - track done at end of sessions) & 'Velvet Green' (live) (taken from 20 years of Jethro Tull - BBC In Concert Recording 1977). 11 tracks & liner notes written by Ian Anderson. Chrysalis. 2003.
The earth-worshipping revelry of 1977's frisky Songs from the Wood was far removed from the heavyweight progressive rock of Jethro Tull's early years. Taking a leaf from the book of Steeleye Span, Songs from the Wood is bright and festive as it mines a rich, green seam of ancient British folklore for inspiration. By marrying the characters ("Jack in the Green") and traditions of the old religion's ritual calendar ("Ring Out Solstice Bells" was an unlikely Christmas hit) to their eccentricity and half-imagined interpretations of British traditional music, Tull came up with one of their albums. This collection unintentionally beseeches the concrete-jungle-dwelling set to retreat to the countryside. With tin-whistles, peppy acoustic guitar, medieval twists and turns, much May Day gaiety and debauchery, and even the odd touch of prog, Songs from the Wood still sounds bewitching in the 21st century. --Kevin Maidment

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