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RhinoFifty years ago this past February, Jethro Tull played its first-ever concert, at London’s famed Marquee Club, and frontman Ian Anderson and company are commemorating the milestone this year with special tour. The band also will mark the anniversary by releasing a pair of CD compilations on May 25.
The first retrospective is a three-CD set titled 50 for 50, which features 50 tracks that include at least one track from each of Jethro Tull’s 21 studio albums, spanning from 1968’s This Was to 2003’s The Jethro Tull Christmas Album. The songs featured on 50 for 50 include most of the British group’s best-known tunes, among them “Living in the Past,” “Aqualung,” “Cross-Eyed Mary,” “Heavy Horses,” “Bungle in the Jungle,” “Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young to Die,” “Skating Away” and “Locomotive Breath.”
The second compilation is a single-disc set called 50th Anniversary Hits that boasts 15 memorable selections that also appear on 50 for 50. A vinyl version of the album featuring 10 tracks will be issued on August 31.
Meanwhile, Jethro Tull launched its 50th anniversary tour in early March in Denmark. The trek will alternate between European and North American legs throughout 2018, with the first series of North American concerts kicking off May 30 in Phoenix.
Here’s the track list of the 50 for 50 compilation, along with the albums on which each song originally appeared:
“Nothing Is Easy” — Stand Up (1969)
“Love Story” — This Was (1968)
“Beggars Farm” — This Was (1968)
“Living in the Past” — Living in the Past (1972)
“A Song for Jeffrey” — This Was (1968)
“A New Day Yesterday” — Stand Up (1969)
“The Witch’s Promise” — Benefit (1970)
“Mother Goose” — Aqualung (1971)
“With You There to Help Me” — Benefit (1970)
“Teacher” — Benefit (1970)
“Life Is a Long Song” — Living in the Past (1972)
“Sweet Dream” (Studio) — Stand Up (1969)
“Aqualung” — Aqualung (1971)
“Minstrel in the Gallery” — Minstrel in the Gallery (1975)
“Critique Oblique” (Steven Wilson Remix) — A Passion Play (1973)
“Weathercock” — Heavy Horses (1978)
“Cross-Eyed Mary” — Aqualung (1971)
“Bouree” — Stand Up (1969)
“Dun Ringill” — Stormwatch (1979)
“Heavy Horses” — Heavy Horses (1978)
“Hunting Girl” — Songs from the Wood (1977)
“Bungle in the Jungle” — War Child (1974)
“Salamander” — Songs from the Wood (1977)
“Pussy Willow” — The Broadsword and the Beast (1982)
“Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young to Die” — Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young to Die! (1976)
“Songs from the Wood” — Songs from the Wood (1977)
“The Whistler” — Songs from the Wood (1977)
“Really Don’t Mind/See There a Son Is Born” — Thick as a Brick (1972)
“Moths” — Heavy Horses (1978)
“One White Duck/Nothing at All” — Minstrel in the Gallery (1975)
“Cup of Wonder” — Songs from the Wood (1977)
“Ring Out Solstice Bells” — The Jethro Tull Christmas Album (2003)
“Skating Away” — War Child (1974)
“A Christmas Song” — The Jethro Tull Christmas Album (2003)
“One Brown Mouse” — Heavy Horses (1978)
“Rare and Precious Chain” — Roots to Branches (1995)
“Kissing Willie” — Rock Island (1989)
“Rocks on the Road” — Catfish Rising (1991)
“Fylingdale Flyer” — A (1980)
“Paparazzi” — Under Wraps (1984)
“North Sea Oil” — Stormwatch (1979)
“Steel Monkey” — Crest of a Knave (1987)
“Black Sunday” — A (1980)
“European Legacy” — Under Wraps (1984)
“Budapest” — Crest of a Knave (1987)
“Broadsword” — The Broadsword and the Beast (1982)
“Dot Com” — J-Tull Dot Com (1999)
“Farm on the Freeway” — Crest of a Knave (1987)
“This Is Not Love” — Catfish Rising (1991)
“Locomotive Breath” — Aqualung (1971)
Here’s track list for the 50th Anniversary Hits CD:
“Love Story”
“Living in the Past”
“Life Is a Long Song”
“Sweet Dream”
“The Witch’s Promise”
“Aqualung”
“Dun Ringhill”
“Cross-Eyed Mary”
“Bouree”
“Bungle in the Jungle”
“Steel Monkey”
“Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll”
“Ring Out Solstice Bells”
“Farm on the Freeway”
“Locomotive Breath”
And here is a full list of Jethro Tull’s North American tour dates:
5/30 — Phoenix, AZ, Comerica Theatre
6/1 — Los Angeles, CA, Greek Theatre
6/2 — Berkeley, CA, The Greek Theatre
6/3 — Paso Robles, CA, Vina Robles Amphitheater
6/5 — Visalia, CA, Visalia Fox Theatre
6/6 — Sacramento, CA, Sacramento Community Theater
6/8 — Bend, OR, Les Schwab Amphitheater
6/9 — Troutdale, OR, Edgefield
6/10 — Woodinville, WA, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery
6/29 — St. Louis, MO, Fox Theatre
6/30 — New Buffalo, MI, Four Winds Casino Resort – Silver Creek Event Center
7/1 — Sterling Heights, MI, Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill
7/3 — Toronto, ON, Canada, Budweiser Stage
7/6 — Ottawa, ON, Canada, Bluesfest
7/7 — Montreal, QC, Canada, Festival International de Jazz de Montreal
8/31 — Minneapolis, MN, State Theater
9/1 — Kansas City, MO, Starlight Theatre
9/3 — Highland Park, IL, Ravinia Festival
9/5 — Huber Heights, OH, Rose Music Center at the Heights
9/7 — Vienna, VA, Wolf Trap
9/8 — Philadelphia, PA, Mann Center for the Performing Arts
9/9 — Boston, MA, Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
9/11 — New York City, NY, Beacon Theatre
9/12 — Wallingford, CT, Oakdale Theatre
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