Jethro Tull - The Best of Acoustic Jethro Tull
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Free Music Review: Mostly excellent
Hit: 4 Stars
The first 17 tracks on this album are great snippets of Tull, and after that things get a little random. I would rather have had him include the full song of some of the older numbers and omit some of the newer, weaker ones.Free Music Review: Thanks For the Memories, Ian
Hit: 5 Stars
After 40 years, we are not getting much in the way of new music anymore from Jethro Tull. (Maybe it's for the best.) So, I am left to pick up a remaster or compilation of some sort here or there. Like most of us in our 50's now, Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull's glory days are in the past. But, what a rich legacy of fine music they created!
This album is not a cheap, repackaged piece of tripe thrown hastily together by a record company to make a couple of bucks. Say what you might about Ian lying back and cashing in on rehashed stuff, but I think he does a masterful job on the reworkings of his music. In listening to this recording, you can feel his love and respect for, and pride in, his creations.
It might be weird, but I think what drew me into Jethro Tull back when I was a kid of 14, was Ian's quiet side. I was more interested in Sossity than Cross-Eyed Mary. Ian had a great gift of melody. I loved his acoustic guitar and all of the other strange and wonderful acoustic instruments he worked into his music. There was really no other band quite like them.
So, there are no real surprises here. I think most ardent fans have heard everything in one form or another. Highlights for me include Mother Goose, Skating Away..., Dun Ringill and Weathercock. To me though, musically, Velvet Green is at or near the top. It combines everything I love about acoustic Tull. It is a few moments of sheer beauty and brilliance. (Much like Rush's Limelight for me.)
This is very well done and the sound is superb. Highly recommended music from an extremely underrated musician and composer. Again, well done Ian and thanks for the memories.
Free Music Review: Great collection of old and new material
Hit: 5 Stars
I guess you could call me a Jethro Tull fan; I've got a half-dozen albums and the big CD box set that was released in the early 90s. This MP3 download is a bargain-priced collection of some of Ian Anderson's very best acoustic performances and recordings. Tull fans will hear acoustic versions of some familiar, but plenty of the tracks were new to me. It's a great collection at a great price.Free Music Review: Meanwhile back in the year 1
Hit: 4 Stars
From wildhaired Edwardian rock minstrel to elder-statesman of the unplugged generation, Ian Anderson and his cohorts of Jethro Tull have kept the unamplified in their music even as they dropped classic rock riffs that have stood for decades. ("Aqualung" and "Locomotive Breath" to name a pair.) But what has always been the main variable to set Jethro Tull apart has been their steadfast loyalty to acoustic music and Anderson's beloved flute.
This collection narrows that field even more. "The Best of Acoustic Jethro Tull" strips away any plugged in instruments. No electric leads, no synths. Nothing here that couldn't be played in the round with a group of like minded friends. Yet from "Wond'ring Aloud" (a personal favorite) to the more recent "Under Wraps," the sound is stunningly consistent. The remastering brings all the songs up to a modern sound and an equal footing. There are plenty of favorites here (and some I miss, but the full running time means Anderson obviously had to leave a few off the final list), so I am content to let this CD play as a de-stressor.
The reason I give "The Best Of Acoustic" only 4 stars is that it doesn't give a full representation of what Anderson and Jethro Tull are capable of. There are other best ofs (Very Best of Jethro Tull) or even "Thick As A Brick" to give you examples of the breadth of Jethro Tull's almost 40 year career.
Free Music Review: "Songs from the wood" &"Minstrel in the Gallery" a bit forgotten here!!
Hit: 3 Stars
By focusing on the acoustic stuff by Jethro Tull you need to listen also to the best unplugged material by Ian Anderson in his fine solo albums...here a couple of songs from his solo works are well represented - and of course it could be the controversial aspect of such a self-tribute album concerning J.T. only, talking about their long career ...actually the most orginal song is not a typical J.T. tune, because for me the track dedicated to the famous Isle of Sky in Scotland, entitled "Dun Ringill", was written for the "Stormwatch" album in 1979 (not their most known album) usually not performed live! Moreover the track performed live in Denmark, entitled "Pastime With Good Company", has been already executed by Blackmore's Night in a better manner and such a controversial consideration prevents me to give this "The Best of Acoustic J.T" an high score..nevertheless I like to mention the "poor" tribute to their important folk prog/classic rock album such as "Songs from the wood" and "Minstrel in the Gallery", here represented by a couple of songs only!!
Anyway you can add another half star at least