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Jethro Tull
Christmas Album
Genres: Special Interest, Pop

Track Listings (16) - 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
11. Greensleeved
12. Fire At Midnight
13. We Five Kings
14. ring Out Solstice Bells
15. Bouree
16. A Winter Snowscape
Track Listings (17) - 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
11. Reading: Mark Billingham, The Ballad Of The Breadman
12. A Winter Snowscape
13. Reading: Andrew Lincoln, Christmas
14. Fires At Midnight
15. We Five Kings
16. Choir: Gaudete
17. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Thick As A Brick

CD Details

All Artists: Jethro Tull
Title: Christmas Album
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 11/24/2009
Album Type: Import
Genres: Special Interest, Pop
Styles: Holiday & Wedding, Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
Other Editions: The Jethro Tull Christmas
UPC: 5099960610225

Synopsis

Album Description

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.

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CD Reviews

Delightful

Everett H. Bigwood Jr. | New Market, VA USA | 12/04/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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 provocative 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."

Great Tull xmas cd

John W. Allen | Australia | 02/17/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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"