Live from Baloise Session Basel 15-11-2008 Jethro Tull

• 1 My Sunday Feeling (Live) 03:58
• 2 Living in the Past (Live) 05:35
• 3 Serenade to a Cuckoo (Live) 04:21
• 4 So Much Trouble (Live) 03:47
• 5 Nursie (Live) 03:16
• 6 Rocks on the Road (Live) 06:23
• 7 A New Day Yesterday (Live) 07:11
• 8 Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die (Live) 04:56
• 9 Bourée (Live) 05:07
• 10 Nothing Is Easy (Live) 06:43
• 11 Dharma for One (Live) 06:24
• 12 Heavy Horses (Live) 09:38
• 13 Thick as a Brick (Live) 09:07
• 14 Aqualung (Live) 05:05
• 15 Locomotive Breath (Live) 07:38
• Total Runtime 01:29:09

Info for Live from Baloise Session Basel 15-11-2008

In 2008 Jethro Tull dazzled the Basel festival crowd with a performance of power and passion. Previously only available as a DVD edition this 90-minutes live set is now available for the first time in audio form.

Recorded in November 2008 at the prestigious Baloise Session (formerly known as AVO Session) in Basel, Switzerland, this electrifying concert is a captivating retrospective of Jethro Tull’s legendary career.

With the incomparable sound of Ian Anderson on the flute, Jethro Tull have been superstars of progressive art rock for the last 40 years. They celebrated this milestone on our stage in the good company of the best Swiss roots rock guitarist: Hank Shizzoe with his Directors.

With an original mix of folk, blues, rock and classical elements, Jethro Tull have embodied a period of high creativity in British pop history to this day. Hank Shizzoe, on the other hand, has distilled the essence of the great American tradition of singers and songwriters. In completely different ways, they define the art of rock.

Ian Anderson, vocals, guitar, flute
Martin Barre, guitar
Doane Perry, drums
David Goodier,bass
John O’Hara, keyboards

Jethro Tull
formed in February 1968 from the ashes of two unsuccessful blues/rock bands of the era. Ian Anderson brought his unique and innovative style of flute playing to a public raised on the guitar based British bands who courted acceptance at London’s famous Marquee Club.

After their first tentative blues oriented album, titled “This Was,” the group moved through successive records towards a more progressive sound, and with “Aqualung” in 1971 achieved their first real international level of success.

A few hit singles, notably “Living in the Past,” livened up their early career although it was as an album band, with songs of real substance, that the group really took off, both on record and as a major live concert act.

So-called concept albums followed in the early 70’s (“Thick as a Brick” and “A Passion Play”) with the attendant platinum No. 1 album chart sales.

Tull survived the critical backlash of the return-to-basics later 70’s to produce some of their finest creative efforts which, although not quite matching the commercial success of the previous works, established the band as one of the truly creative exponents of progressive music throughout the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.

They have continued to constantly reinvent themselves, albeit with several personnel changes along the way.

Ian Anderson (flute and vocals) and Martin Barre (guitar) provide to this day the musical and historical backbone of the group, joined by Doane Perry on drums, Andrew Giddings on keyboards, and Jonathan Noyce on bass.

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