The Jethro Tull Christmas Album

Infobox Album |
Name = The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
Type = Studio album
Longtype = (Christmas)
Artist = Jethro Tull


Released = September 30 2003 (U.S.)
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 62:16
Label = RandM Records (UK) & Fuel 2000 (U.S.)
Producer = Ian Anderson
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?P=amg&sql=Aezg9keftdq7z link]
*Progressive World Rating|5|5 [http://www.progressiveworld.net/jethrotull16.html link]
*"Rolling Stone" (favorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jethrotull/albums/album/296855/review/5941355/the_jethro_tull_christmas_album link]
*George Starostin (8/10) [http://starling.rinet.ru/music/tull.htm#Album link]
*The Daily Vault (B+) [http://dailyvault.com/toc.php5?review=4642 link]
Last album = "Essential"
(2003)
This album = "The Jethro Tull Christmas Album"
(2003)
Next album = ""
(2004)

"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…"

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
#"Greensleeves" (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

External links

*
* (bonus dvd)
* [http://www.j-tull.com/news/christmasalbum.cfm Official Website]
* [http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=3625 Progressive Archives]
* [http://www.dprp.net/reviews/200363.html DPRP CD Review]
* [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/5935273 Rolling Stone Review]