image link If this doesn’t give your scalp a serious tingle… The HU Band! Just heard them for the first time a few days ago and was instantly hooked. Rock and Roll/Rockabilly/New Genre/Old Genre is alive and well, my friends. If you put the cc on the youtube you can see what they’re singing. And…
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A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 5 – Ears of Tin from Rock Island (1989)
“Ears of Tin” is from Rock Island, their 17th studio album, released in 1989. The album continued the hard rock direction the band took on the previous effort, Crest of a Knave (1987). The line-up now included Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, Dave Pegg and drummer Doane Perry in his first full recording with the band,…
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 4 – Doctor to My Disease from Catfish Rising (1991)
Catfish Rising is the 18th studio album by the British rock group Jethro Tull, released in 1991. It is the first Tull album to feature keyboardist Andrew Giddings (on this and 2 other tracks.) The album forgoes the synthesizers and electronic instruments that were prominent in Tull’s 80’s albums, instead opting for a hard…
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 3 – (To) Cry You a Song from Benefit (1970)
According to [guitarist] Martin Barre, “To Cry You a Song” was a response to Blind Faith’s “Had to Cry Today“, “ although you couldn’t compare the two; nothing was stolen… The riff crossed over the bar in a couple of places and Ian and I each played guitars on the backing tracks. It was more…
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 2 – Bourée, from Stand Up (1969)
“Bourée” was recorded at Olympic Studios (the only song on the album that was.) Some regarded Olympic Studios as important as Abbey Road Studios. It proved the most difficult to record, with the band unsatisfied with any of the takes they recorded. The final version of the song was compiled later from several takes, with…
Music That Strikes a Chord — “Temporary Like Achilles,” written by Bob Dylan (but performed by Old Crow Medicine Show because I couldn’t find a Bob Dylan version)
bob dylan / photo jean-marie périer, Paris, June 1966 I decided to put Bob Dylan’s, “Blonde on Blonde” on while I tackled a Mount Olympian-sized pile of dirty dishes. Dang, why haven’t I listened to this double-album in so long. Blonde on Blonde is Bob’s seventh studio album, released on June 20, 1966. Recording sessions…
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 1 – Aqualung from Aqualung (1971)
Welcome to Day 1’s offering for the A to Z 2021 Challenge. The large Celtic letters for each day come from Creative Haven’s, “Celtic Alphabet Designs Coloring Book,” by Cari Buziak, which you can find here. I colored them in. This is the 2nd year I’ve used them for A2Z. Now on with Day…
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