Jethro Tull- Locomotive Breath- Philadelphia 1987

Forced to not sing a note for three long years due to a chronic throat infection, Ian Anderson took the layoff to write Jethro Tull’s strongest batch of songs in the Eighties for 1987’s Grammy-grabbing album Crest of a Knave. The supporting tour that year found Anderson and Jethro Tull never sounding better, as you can hear from this live performance of “Locomotive Breath” from the perennially evergreen classic Aqualung, now sporting its double-nickle anniversary. -Redbeard