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Mike Barnes

“It was beginning to feel like everyone’s mind wasn’t on the job… a feeling that there should be some hiatus”: Jethro Tull’s saddest, darkest album could have been even darker

Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull in 1979.

With the 2019 release of the 40th-anniversary box set of Stormwatch – the album that some say completed Jethro Tull’s folk-rock trilogy after Songs From The Wood and Heavy Horses, Ian Anderson told Prog about the prescient record that was tinged with personal sadness.

Jethro Tull were given their name (that of an 18th-century agriculturalist) by Dave Robson, a booker at the Ellis-Wright agency who dealt with the young band. If they hadn’t played the Marquee club soon after the christening, Ian Anderson, who didn’t particularly like the name, reckons it would have been changed again.

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