"Heavy Horses," Tull's Folk Middle Chapter

[@ShedSoundsMediawithIanBeabout]

What do you love about HEAVY HORSES ?

[@Rahoorkhuitable]

The song "Rover". It sounds a bit like Bob Dylan could sing that too....

[@corawheeler9355]

HH is a favorite Tull album. Every track is good ... Mouse Police, Moths, Journeyman, Weathercock ... love them all. Ian writes such lovely melodies and lyrics.

[@pellmj1]

Excellent analysis. Thank you! Songs From The Wood and Heavy Horses , add the live album, comprise my favorite era and line up from possibly my favorite band. Saw them on the aqualung tour at the small college where where my dad in the northwest Catskill mountains. My dad taught English and I grew up in a tiny dairy farming town at the end of that being a dominating industry. I loved literature, rock and roll and the natural landscape surrounding me . When i saw Jethro Tull in ' 71 they were completely bizarre, larger than life , dickensian . When I learned that they didn't subscribe to the idiocy of the drug culture I became a fan for life. Impressionable kid ! I didn't romanticize the American blues, I preferred my English, Irish, Scottish bands to emphasize their own folk culture. Ad the agricultural/rural atmosphere of the bands material 1976-79 and it was near perfection. For me. And I really wouldn't mind if they mined this approach for a dozen more records. Why ,oh ,why did they have to change and attempt to "adapt' to the '80's influence. 😉 And I like punk and new wave too! I just preferred Jethro Tull to bravely transport me to some other land of the rustic.

[@justgivemethetruth]

The opening drums on No Lullabye are just another incredible thing Tull did that was powerful and original, and Tull invented this stuff like it was nothing. So much originality in everything he/they did.

[@justgivemethetruth]

So funny. For most of the Tull songs that I sort of disliked or avoided playing when I first got whatever album are the songs I end up liking a lot. Like Up To Me, and on HH, Journeyman.

[@markb1107]

Great album! Great show at Madison Square Garden 78!!.. thanks for doing this!!

[@JimmyRJump]

Saw the Tullsters for the first time somewhere in November 1977 at Brussels' Forest National. 't Was one of my first gigs I ever went to, being just 16 and all that. I think I only saw AC/DC (October 1977), Genesis (late 1977) and Yes (November 1977, Sportpaleis, Antwerp with Donovan as opener) before Tull. Not sure about Genesis; I'll have to check my tickets to see, if Ican find 'em. Jethro Tull were a revelation. Not only for their music, but also for the overall "expression" of the band on stage. Of course, Anderson was the person being most impressive with his antics, but the other instrumentalists were equally animated. I was already working at the time, so I was able to buy "Aqualung" a few weeks after the gig. "Heavy Horses" was an album I bought together with "Songs From The Wood" and "Stormwatch", early 1979. The song itself spoke to me, having grown up in rural Belgium, where some local farmers still worked the fields with the mighty Brabant horse pulling the plow. Not my favourite album by Tull, but it's an album that grew on me as I got older. I'm at my roots a fan of a more heavier style of music, like Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden. But Jethro Tull have a varying spot in my top-ten of all-time favourite bands. Cheerio Ian. Stay healthy. Greetings from Belgium.

[@calummcgregor3662]

Currently this is my "go to" Tull album ... especially the remix ... the song construction, performance, fidelity, memorable tunes ... just great ... Moths, Journeyman, Mouse Police ..etc ... all wonderful ... Tull, from mid '70's through to Broadsword, produced some stellar output ... fabulous band ... cool video again ... CMcG, Aberdeen, Scotland ... p.s. saw the band live in Aberdeen a few months back ... really great gig, great musicians, good set list ... still "cutting it" live ... and Ian's vocal delivery was great

[@classicalbum]

Great video, good luck with your channel

[@ShedSoundsMediawithIanBeabout]

I always enjoy your content - thank you !

[@craig8542]

I wish you well. good listening.

[@jphirn]

Thanks for this Ian, HH is one of my favorites. I always appreciate a deep dive into this era. My very first concert was seeing the Bursting Out tour at Chicago Stadium in 1978. Rover also reminds me of Prisoner, Those of course were the giant inflated balloons who would “chase your every footstep and follow every whim” and stop Number 6 ( played by Patrick McGoohan) from escaping The Village. So it’s interesting on a couple of different levels. Or is it just a song about a dog?

[@reidwhitton6248]

I like this one mainly for the title track, and No Lullaby. I don't listen to it as much as Songs From The Wood, and Stormwatch. I did pick up the Bursting Out deluxe set after listening to your review. I went straight for the Madison Square Garden show and I love it! Looking forward to the rest.

[@peterock4210]

You saved me from commenting. I would have typed this word for word..

[@judmcc]

HH is my second favorite Tull album, after Aqualung. People talk about a trilogy of albums. To me, Minstrel in the Gallery, Songs from the Wood, and Heavy Horses make the best trilogy, even though they are not quite consecutive albums.

[@stuartraybould2574]

It's the lyrics on this album that make it for me, poetry.

[@NP-ip3nj]

I don't agree entirely about Tull's records not being consistent. I do think Robin Black provided a sense of consistency through Tull's 70s records that other bands didn't have, especially from Thick as a Brick onwards through to Stormwatch. I can't think of another example like that until maybe Alan Parsons Project or Iron Maiden with Martin Birch in the 80s. I agree with you about Wilson's mixes though, I think he brought out some really nice details in them.

[@sundance8744]

Well done job, Ian ! Btw, yr opinion, which one of the Wilson’s remixes of JT has been best “treated” ?

[@ShedSoundsMediawithIanBeabout]

@@sundance8744 perhaps a subject for a future video

[@sundance8744]

@@ShedSoundsMediawithIanBeabout Great, looking forward to. Such a comparision (even just subjective) not been presented here of these Steven’s JT remixes.

[@justgivemethetruth]

David g-dammit

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