Jethro Tull - Living In The Past

180-gram double LP 2015 reissue

As co-founded and led by wildman/flutist/guitarist/singer/songwriter Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull carved a place all its own in popular music. Tull had its roots in the British blues boom of the late '60s. This collection, put together to capitalize on the explosive growth in the group's audience after Aqualung, shows just how fine a group Jethro Tull was in the early '70s. Most of the songs, apart from a few heavily played album tracks ("Song for Jeffrey," etc.) and a pair of live tracks from a 1970 Carnegie Hall show, came off of singles and EPs that, apart from the title song, were scarcely known in America, and it's all so solid that it needs no apology or explanation.

Not only was Ian Anderson writing solid songs every time out, but the group's rhythm section was about the best in progressive rock's pop division. Along with any of the group's first five albums, this collection is seminal and essential to any Tull collection, and the only compilation by the group that is a must-own disc, writes AllMusic.

Side 1

A Song For Jeffrey

Love Story

Christmas Song

Living in the Past

Driving Song

Bouree

Side 2

Sweet Dream

Singing All Day

Teacher

Witches Promise

Alive And Well And Living In

Just Trying To Be

Side 3

By Kind Permission Of

Dharma For One

Side 4

Wond’ring Again

Hymn 43

Life Is A Long Song

Up The ‘Pool

Dr. Bogenbroom

From Later

Nursie

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