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Jethro Tull- Thick As a Brick- Ian Anderson

Jethro Tull’s March 1972 epic “Thick As a Brick” is the only album in music history to attain #1 sales on Billboard containing only one song…Ian Anderson joins me In the Studio with Jethro Tull’s “Thick As a Brick” for one of the greatest progressive albums ever!

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Jethro Tull- Songs from the Wood- Ian Anderson

Realize that “Songs from the Wood” by Jethro Tull, released way back in February 1977, was already the English folk/progressive rockers’ tenth album! There was nothing that sounded remotely like the ancient pastoral songs and instrumentation on “Songs from the Wood”  then on the all-important American rock radio. Ian Anderson is my guest In the Studio  for “Songs from the Wood”.

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Jethro Tull- The Zealot Gene- Ian Anderson

Not since “Aqualung” fully half a century ago had Ian Anderson addressed the historic  characters and iconography of the Old and New Testament Bible this head on, mixed with twentieth century and even current events, as on “The Zealot Gene” by Jethro Tull. Ian Anderson is my guest here In the Studio.

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Jethro Tull- Aqualung- Ian Anderson

Few albums from any time in the Rock Era continue  to satisfy quite so well as Jethro Tull’s masterpiece “Aqualung”. Ian Anderson smartly wrote songs for all seasons for a superb band, including the timeless rockers “Aqualung”,”Cross-Eyed Mary”,”Locomotive Breath,” and “Hymn #43”, but perfectly paced the album with tasty acoustic classics like “Wond’ring Aloud”and “Mother Goose”. On “Aqualung” ‘s golden anniversary, Ian Anderson is my guest In the Studio.

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Jethro Tull- Minstrel in the Gallery- Ian Anderson

“Light and shade,” Jimmy Page once told me, speaking to the secret of Led Zeppelin’s universal popularity, and never was that combination more on display than on the title song to Jethro Tull’s September 1975 “Minstrel in the Gallery”. 

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Jethro Tull- Crest of a Knave- Ian Anderson

Beginning in 1979 and continuing all the way until 1987 with “Crest of a Knave”,  Jethro Tull’s fate and fortunes would be quite unlike their first decade of success when the  unique amalgam of blues rock, Scottish Highlands folk, and hard rock, led by Ian Anderson and exemplified by “Aqualung”  and the worldwide #1-seller “Thick As a Brick”,  packed arenas.

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Jethro Tull- Benefit 50th Anniversary- Ian Anderson

They were the changes  in musical direction and key personnel made on Jethro Tull’s critical preceding third album, “Benefit”,   in April 1970, that provided the oxygen in “Aqualung” ‘s tank a year later.

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Jethro Tull- War Child- Ian Anderson

In the years 1969-74 and “War Child”, there was no band in the world more exciting, more unconventional, and more successful than Jethro Tull. Ian Anderson is my guest.

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Yes- Close to the Edge- Jon Anderson, Steve Howe , Rick Wakeman, Bill Bruford

A half century ago, YES’s Close to the Edge  was stunningly popular, with Top Five sales in both the U.S. and UK. In these thoughtful, detailed classic rock interviews, YES lead singer/lyricist Jon Anderson, guitarist Steve Howe, extraordinary drummer Bill Bruford, and keyboard innovator Rick Wakeman provide a surprisingly candid recounting of the undisputed peak of the Progressive Rock era.