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4th Order: Locomotive Breath. www.paynecountyline.com/MP3s/4th_order_demo/4thorderdemo.htm Welcome De-Li Lo-R S-T U-Ä
A nice acoustic demo with only vocals, acoustic guitar and bongos.
4-tissimo: Locomotive Breath. www.4-tissimo.com.
German party-band spice up LB with unintentional humour: "the train is not going down" and "he's got all his balls" to mention a
couple of slight misses by the singer. On the other hand, due to this you just have to listen this version more than once!
Mick Abrahams & The This Was Band: This Is! CD 1998 Squirrel Music.
The whole This Was -album live excl. Round.
Original Tull-guitarist celebrating the 30th anniversary of the bands debut album. A tight, energetic performance.
Adachi Kyodai: Adachi Kyodai. CD 2003 Musea.
Mother Goose, Cheap Day Return.
The Adachi Brothers have produced the first cover-versions I have from Japan. They form a acoustic-guitar duo evidently inspired by
John McLaughlin. The best moment is the calm intro of CDR, elsewhere the speed technique show-out feels mildly hysterical.
Adachi Kyodai: Xianshi. CD 2005 Musea.
Wond'ring Aloud.
Again a good intro. The rest is pretty lame, mainly due to a weak singing voice.
Ageness: Sweet Dream. Cassette, unreleased.
David Rees of A New Day-magazine planned to release an album of Tull-covers to go with the 50th issue of the mag. When I
read about this I contacted Ageness band-leader Tommy Eriksson and suggested that they would do something for a possible
inclusion on the album. Well, the AND- Tull tribute hasn't been heard of since, but Ageness made one of the greatest Tull
covers I've ever heard. Can you imagine U2 (when they are good) with Peter Gabriel doing Jethro Tull? -just to give you some
clue of what this knock-out sounds like. Check out www.ageness.net and maybe persuade Tommy to release "Sweet Dream"…?
All About Eve: December. CD-single 1989 Phonogram.
The Witch's Promise.
Violin instead of flute sounds great on this version. All in all a good cut of this classic song.
Animal Bag: Offering. CD 1994 Stardog/Mercury.
Dun Ringill.
Psychedelic soundscape intro leads into an apt and faithful, atmospheric rendition.
Maria Anthony: Songs Of The Troubadour. CD 1997.
Inside, Life's A Long Song, Fires At Midnight, Mother Goose, One White Duck, In Defence Of Faiths/Another Christmas
Song.
Intimate, fragile versions on this personal tribute album. Also includes two of Maria's original compositions (the title track and
"Art School"), both inspired by Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull. Slight celtic influences here and there, hopefully more of them on
the follow up…?
Maria Anthony & Megan Hurt: Thegither An' A'. CD 2000 Zwonght Music.
Broadford Bazaar.
Maria Anthony teams up with violinist Megan Hurt (appears also on "Songs Of The Troubadour"). Maria blends elegantly some
familiar Tull-themes into BB. In the same mode as SOTT.
Apogee. Unreleased CD-R 1997.
Cross-Eyed Mary, Kissing Willie, Back To The Family, Aqualung, Up To Me, Dun Ringill, To Cry You A Song.
This is a Finnish tribute project. Band-leader Jaakko Hänninen was so kind as to offer these unique recordings to my collection.
The standard of the material is great, at least as good as you'll get from any established JT tribute band. Highlighted by a super
version of CEM with real tasty keyboard layers, an electric UTM and the first cover I've heard of KW. Jaakko tells there are more
goodies in the vaults! Stay tuned...
Aqualung: Live Lentepop 2000. CD-R 2000.
Hymn 43, Locomotive Breath, To Cry You A Song, Aqualung.
Dutch tribute project experience difficulties on stage in a performance marked by insecurity and flaws. No mistaking that these guys
could do a much more consistent show under better circumstances.
Aqualung: My Sunday Feeling, For A Thousand Mothers. www.daytonamusic.com/aqualung/
This is an American tribute band. The singer works hard to sound like Ian Anderson, but overdoes it a bit. Or maybe it's intended
as a slight parody? FATM's instrumental passages are the best moments of these downloads.
Arcanes: Quiet And Stormy. Mellow Records.
Locomotive Breath.
Sad to say nothing really works on this obscure attempt. Not the production, not the arrangement, not the playing...
Around: Drywater Falls. CD 2000 New Life Media.
Skating Away, Acres Wild.
SA nicely performed, but nothing revolutionary. AW really good, gutsy performance. Maybe just a little touch of percussion or
keys to stir it up even more? AW not available on all pressings of the record.
Ausia: Kasa Kasa. CD 2003 Poseidon/Musea.
Mother Goose.
Featuring Source. K. Adachi from Adachi Kyodai, this MG is based on the same arrangement as AK's version. Can't help it, for me these
out and free exercises on violin and recorder feel rather pointless and irritable.
Bad Toupees: Into Thin (h)Air. CD 1999 Bad Toupees Production.
Locomotive Breath.
Thanks Dag for forcing this CD out of America. This amateur band fails to make LB rock, mostly due to unstructured rhythm arrangement.
Backslash: Locomotive Breath. www.backslash-rock.ch/mp3.html
It's quite typical for amateur bands doing LB that the piano-intro is the best sequence. So is the case here too. Nice licks on the
piano through out, but that's it.
Tommy Barnett: Cheap Day Return. http://www.geocities.com/peachshed/tommy_barnett_cheap_day_return.mp3
Super kind of Tommy (ex The Bucknards) to make his intimate version of CDR available on the web. Check it out!
The Bartone Band: Locomotive Breath, Thick As A Brick/Living In The Past. http://www.bartoneband.com/mp3.html
Difficult to judge or enjoy Bartone by these lofi bar-recordings. Most interesting is the audience dialogue during TAAB!
Beggar's Farm: Jethro Tull Tribute. CD 1997 BF 001.
Nothing Is Easy, Song For Jeffrey, A New Day Yesterday, Cross Eyed Mary, Wond'ring Aloud, Mother Goose, One
White Duck "Again", Minstrel In The Gallery, Bouree, Locomotive Breath, Aqualung.
Italian tribute-band seeks to sound as close to original as possible. Personally I prefer new interpretations, but these guys do
what they do so well that you can't but enjoy it. Extra special plus for "One White Duck" with it's excellent instrumental
passage.
Beggar's Farm: Thick As A Brick, Nothing Is Easy (live), Locomotive Breath/Inside/Fat Man/Cheerio (live). Unreleased.
BF sounds good live as well. TAAB recorded, but not released, for the tribute-album Songs For Jethro.
Beggar's Farm and David Palmer: In Concert-A Night With Jethro Tull. CD 2001 Mad Madi' Records.
Wind Up/The Whistler/The Third Hoorah, Thick As A Brick, Moths, Coronach, Taxi Grab, Elegy, King Henry's
Madrigal, Bouree, Too Old…, Locomotive Breath/Back-door Angels, Elegy (instrumental).
Highly interesting recording from DP/BF 's tour of Italy. BF in good form as always, but what about DP's vocal performance?
Perhaps surprisingly, his singing (somewhere between John Cleese and Tom Waits) fits best in the rock numbers Taxi Grab
and LB. More highlights are the instrumental "The Third Hoorah" and "King Henry's Madrigal". Wouldn't it be fabulous to
hear the JT of today play those masterpieces? The jazz-arrangement of "Bouree" works much better now than on the convention
video from 2000. Noteworthy details: the classic TAAB acoustic guitar parts played with piano (!) and the perfect 'Doane Perry-
impersonation' by drummer Michele Delemont on LB. Featured are also 2 DP's post-Tull ballads ("Cathedral", "Emmanuelle").
Hopefully this isn't the last coming of the vocal "Elegy", it's great. All in all an enjoyable release and another victory for the
tireless Itullians.
Beggar's Farm & Clive Bunker featuring Bernardo Lanzetti: Diving In The Past. CD 2004 Electromantic Music.
Wind Up, A New Day Yesterday, A Song For Jeffrey, My Sunday Feeling, For A Thousand Mothers, Thick As A Brick,
Bouree, Hunting Girl, Cross-Eyed Mary, My God, Aqualung, Locomotive Breath.
BF has to be the most productive Tull-tribute band in the world. Here they are with a new live CD and a well known guest drummer;
one of the highlights is his solo on LB. My favourite track however is WU, perhaps the most electrifying version I've heard. What an
opener!
Beggar's Farm: Itullians. CD 2006 Electromantic Music.
A Fairy Tale (incl. Tomorrow Was Today), Life Is A Long Song, Taxi Grab, To Cry You A Song, Back Door Angels, Serenade To A
Cockoo, Someday The Sun Won't Shine For You, Mother Goose, Nothing Is Easy, My Sunday Feeling.
This CD holds a true sensation, a must for every proper Tull-fan: the piece "A Fairy Tale", including the unreleased JT masterpiece
"Tomorrow Was Today". Superb! Big congrats to BF for this score. Of course the rest of the album is of 100% value too, with some PFM
and Genesis thrown in to show the bands versatility.
Bittersuite: Locomotive Breath. http://www.arkrat.net/LocoBreath.html
Very basic & solid Loco covering.
Bjørn Berge: Illustrated Man. CD 2002 Farmen AS.
Locomotive Breath.
Good version from Norway. Big points for going for something different. Nice acoustic slide-guitar and funky breaks.
Blackmore's Night: Ghost Of A Rose. CD 2003 SPV.
Rainbow Blues.
Somewhere on this site I made the wish that someone would cover this fantastic piece. Now it's here! BN:s version is very good, but it
doesn't reach the mind-blowing quality of the original. Of course that would be asking to outdo Jethro Tull at its very best! No, can't
complain here, though I wish they would have kept those distinctive breaks behind the chorus. Anyway, this is excellent!
Blackmore's Night: Rainbow Blues. http://www.deeppurple.blueage.it/audio_mp3.htm
An audience recording of this great tune.
Blackwater Side: Folk, Blues And Irish. CD 2001 Blackwater Side Records.
Locomotive Breath.
Pretty good acoustic arrangement by Austrian duo Christine Hödl (vox, guitar) and Harald Müller (flute). They mention Tracey Chapman
and Ian Anderson as main inspirations. Not bad examples...
Blake: Starbringer. CD 2004 Ranch.
Beggar's Farm.
Modern Finnish heavy band surprise with a harsh but good version of this old classic.
Blodwyn Pig: All Said And Done. 2CD+DVD box set Shakedown Records 2004.
The whole This Was -album excl. Round.
Perhaps a bit confusing that Mick Abrahams releases a studio version of 'This Was' with exactly the same line-up that made a live CD
under the name MA & The This Was Band (see top of this page), but now as Blodwyn Pig? Well, it's a nice little box anyway with the
DVD featuring an interview with Mick talking through the often quite dramatic turns of his career. Musical highlights are the blazing
guitar-solos on "It's Breaking Me Up" and "Cat's S". Wow!
The Blue Ball Band: Something For Us All. CD 1998 Bluesy Mind.
Locomotive Breath.
A band of happy amateurs (?) from France. The idea of doing LB in a slightly jazzy shuffle tempo is interesting, but the result
is anything but convincing.
The Bucknards: Skating Away. http://www.geocities.com/peachshed/bucknards.html
This sympathetic attempt is let down by poor recording and sound.
Buddy Blue: Pretend It's Okay. CD 2001 Clarence Records.
My Sunday Feeling.
Excellent stuff from La Mesa, California. Strange to think that there aren't many cover-versions of this magnificent piece of pure
and honest rock 'n' roll. Buddy Blue sure knows how to do his thing. Great!
Blues Mobile Band: A New Day Yesterday. CD 1993 Provogue.
A New Day Yesterday.
Nothin' but the blues from Tbilisi, Georgia. This energetic trio named the whole album after their cover of ANDY. It's a good old-
fashioned work-out with solos by both guitarist Vladimir Mogeladze and drummer Georgi Salagishvili. Good, honest stuff.
Blues Wire: Fence. CD 2001 A&N Records.
Locomotive Breath.
Blues from Greece! This veteran band serves up a cunning version of LB, spiced up with a harmonica solo and the Aqualung riff to end.
A track simply called "Intro" precedes; it lends slightly from the LB intro.
Bogo's Band: Locomotive Breath. www.bogosband.de/frameset.htm
German party-band let their flautist work-out properly in this otherwise basic LB.
Joe Bonamassa: A New Day Yesterday. CD 2000 Epic/550 Music/Okeh.
A New Day Yesterday.
Excellent rough version by ace blues guitarist, who also named his album after this song. Because of records like this I collect
cover-versions. Absolutely awesome.
Joe Bonamassa: A New Day Yesterday Live. CD 2002 Medalist.
A New Day Yesterday.
JB:s live version is at least as good as the studio recording. Loaded with live energy and starting with a blues-jam intro that lets
this super guitarist show off his virtuoso talents.
Border Ride: Locomotive Breath. www.borderride.com/songs/
This is definitely a refreshing version. It's acoustic with guitar, mandolin, vocals and a scent of bluegrass!
Bratranci Veverkove: A New Day Yesterday, Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square, Bouree, For A Thousand Mothers, Locomotive Breath,
Back To The Family, Living In The Past, Cross Eyed Mary, Mother Goose, Wond'ring Aloud, Up To Me, To Cry You A Song,
Aqualung, My God, Hymn 43, Wind Up.
Big thanks go to Jan Havranek from the Czech Republik for delivering these covers to the collection! Very cunning musicianship,
surely would be a treat to catch BV live. Keep up the good work! Listen & enjoy at http://veverky.jethrotull.cz/media_eng.htm. Jan added
BTTF to the set later, keeping up the good standard. February 2006: more good news. Jan put up LITP, CEM and MG. That's the way!
Four new songs added from the Rock Café gig 21.3.2006: WA, UTM, TCYAS and Aqua. These takes contain a few flaws, but that doesn't
shade the good work these guys are doing. My God added September 2006. After a break in activity BV return with Hymn 43 and Wind Up
in April 2008. Welcome back!
British Yankees Blues Band: Legendary Knights. CD 2001 British Yankees Blues Band.
Some Day The Sun Won't Shine For You.
As good as acoustic blues gets. Featuring harp solo by James Montgomery. Simply perfect.
Broonie: Locomotive Breath. http://broonie.ods.org/musik.htm
Basic LB covering.
Brown University Band: Dusky. CD 1993. http:// www.brown.edu/Students/Brown_band/songs.html.
Locomotive Breath.
Short big band version good enough to make you wish they would have recorded it in full length.
Cab City Combo: Pork Side Of The Moon. CD 1995 Rubin Brothers Audio.
Aqualounge.
Definitely one of the craziest versions ever heard. The basic setting is a piano lounge somewhere out there, where a duo (singer
and pianist, desperate to entertain) tries to capture the attention of an indifferent crowd. Packed with humorous details, too many to
mention; this has to be heard. I guess you either like or hate it. I think it's absolutely great!
Michael Carlucci: Thick As A Brick. http://webpages.charter.net/mcarlucci/Page-music_downloads.htm
Very enjoyable version with good sounds and arrangement, a solo project by MC.
The Cadets: Living With The Past. CD 2004 Youth Education in the Arts.
Songs From The Wood, Bouree, Thick As A Brick, Living In The Past.
The Cadets: Songs From The Wood, Bouree Medley, Thick As A Brick/Living In The Past. http://www.tulltrades.com/cadets.htm
I lack words to describe this amazing music. Would it have sounded like this if Zappa would have covered Tull? Every aspect of this
stuff is unbelievable. From the cover art humorously copying the JT album of the same name, through the fantastic arrangements, to
the completely unlikely combination of an US marching band tributing Tull and including "Star Spangled Banner"! However confusing,
it's absolutely marvellous. So rich, so surprising, with ingenious quotes from Tull history. Excellent live takes at the above mentioned
web-address. I could never have imagined hearing anything like this. Simply incredible.
The Candy Men: Pilgrim. CD 1994 Alora Music.
For A Thousand Mothers.
Good shot by this Belgian band led by vocalist Jan Goossens. Excellent energy level, good arrangement + a nice hammond solo does
proper honour to this great song.
Capra: Soulsinging. CD 2003.
Locomotive Breath.
German band in live action. Nice version with tasteful heavy nuances. Good musicianship.
Jud Caswell: Dun Ringill. http://www.judcaswell.com/index.htm?music.htm&1
A really good performance with nice intimate atmosphere.
Cat Gang: Locomotive Breath. 12" 1983 Il Discotto Productions.
Locomotive Breath Special Cat Version, Locomotive Breath Special Rock Version.
LB in early 80's disco-mode! This record is so weird that it is actually almost good. If you are a friend of camp-humour it's
downright excellent. No limit to what those Italians can do.
CCS: CCS. CD 2000 (1970) Repertoire.
Living In The Past.
Good fun instrumental big-band arrangement with percussion-section, saxophone solos and all. Good sound.
The Cellar Dwellers: Locomotive Breath. www.tcdmusic.com/Music.htm
Poor sound quality here. Intro played on synth, nothing else notable.
Eugene Chadbourne: Young And Innocent Days. Double mini-LP 2000 Swamp Room Records.
Teacher.
Underground cult artist EC gives us a psychedelic bluegrass version of this classic tune. Completely crazy, hilariously funny and
ending in an avantgarde freak-out on guitar, flute and banjo. No sense in denying: this is fun. Extra points for fabulous art-work
and beautiful picture discs (limited edition of 1000 copies).
Chantal: Populars Volume 1. CD 2000 AMVC Records.
Locomotive Breath, Bouree, Coronach.
German easy-listening folk group has chosen 3 Tull pieces for their selection of rock-classics. A respectable deed. All versions have
their moments, though they balance dangerously close to the line of muzak.
Scott Chapin: Aqualung Polka. www.scottchapin.com/Polkas/polka.html
This polka version was recorded for a radio morning show in the early nineties. Certainly would wake up any sleepy Tull-fan!
Rob Chapman: We Used To Know. home.att.net/~chapman99/thesongs-cover.htm
A modest home recording featuring some less than convincing synth-soloing.
Charlies: Musiikkia elokuvasta Julisteiden liimaajat. CD 1993 Vinylmania.
We Used To Know.
Originally released 1970, with a print run of 300, this is a soundtrack for the film "The Poster Gluers", described by many of the few
who have actually seen it as "the worst movie in the history of cinematic art". Among the bonus-tracks on this re-release you can find
WUTK. A good effort considering the early date, but apparently it's just a recorded rehearsal; no instrumental passages, the singer just
repeats the verses in random order. Thanks Juha for detecting this rarity.
CJSS: Kings Of The World. CD 2000 Pavement Music.
Locomotive Breath.
Grievous ultra-slow heavy drag-through. Difficult to comprehend the motive for this.
Clarion: Bouree.
Nice improvisation on flute at the end doesn't save this piece that falters into the slough of muzak.
Claw Boys Claw: Locomotive Breath.
Nice heavy guitar intro leads to an energetic and raw rendition. Nothing revolutionary though.
Cold Flame: Live At The Carnival. CD 2001 PRM.
Another Day Gone By/New Day Yesterday/(Whistler), We Used To Know, Rhythm And Greens/Flute Solo/Locomotive Breath.
Energetic and unpolished performance by semi-professional band from Manchester. With 3 covers reported, the real surprise is the
intervention of ANDY by "Whistler" in Martin Barre's 'Beacon's Bottom'-arrangement. The flute solo is a short interlude lending
from "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen".
Cold Flame: Live Up The Pool. 2CD 2007 CFR Records.
Mainland Blues (Ears Of Tin), Play In Time, We Used To Know, Wondring Aloud, So Much Trouble, Some Day The Sun Won't
Shine for You, Back To The Family, To Be Sad Is A Mad Way To Be, 1000 Peter Gunns (incl. For A Thousand Mothers), Living
In The Past, Hunt By Numbers, Jack In The Green, Critique Oblique, Dun Ringill, Serenade To A Cuckoo, Dharma For One,
Broadsword, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Bouree, Cross Eyed Mary, New Day Yesterday Medley (incl. The Whistler).
Packed with both classic and rare Tull + other niceties, this CD reveres the sound and atmosphere of the late 60's--early 70's. Some
highlights: "Mainland Blues", actually the bluesy part of "Ears Of Tin" , "Hunt By Numbers", and the rarest of all:"Critique Oblique" !
Keep up the Flame!
Color: For Michael Collins, Jeffrey And Me. http://www.accessguy.com/Color/Color_Index.asp
Color deserves respect for this attempt, but sadly the result is a bit too shaky to be completely enjoyable.
The Connells: New Boy. CD-EP 1994 TVT Records.
Living In The Past.
Good indie-pop like version. Also available as a bonus track on the European edition of the CD "Ring".
Cracks in the Sidewalk: Locomotive Breath. http://cracksinthesidewalk.com/music.html
A punk-ish version, straight and unpretending. Pretty good, actually.
Mike Crawley and The MacDaddies: Live At Blue Cat's. CD 2004.
Locomotive Breath.
Can't complain on the energy level of this take downloaded from http://www.macdaddiesrock.com/id19.htm. Good rockin'!
Cresta Verde String Quartet: Heavy Lumber. CD 2000.
Bouree.
American CVSQ performs both classical and crossover. They do some really nice things with assorted rock classics, but their arrangement
and performance of "Bouree" is a bit lame, I'm afraid.
Cud: Only (A Prawn In Whitby). 12" 1989 Imaginary Records.
Living In The Past.
Great idea to do LITP in a minor key, in the mode of "Mission Impossible". Instead of playing it cool 'til the end, they go
hysterical, which isn't so much fun.
Phé Cullen: Phé Cullen. CD 2001.
Living In The Past, Locomotive Breath, Thick As A Brick.
This is something you can't imagine, you'll have to hear it. Super cool jazz renditions with female voice, piano, bass and drums.
Strings attached on TAAB and soprano sax on LITP. Wow! I love it when someone finds a new angle with such skill and great taste.
Sensational stuff!
The Cutters: Lowlands. CD 1994 & 2000 Skookumchuck Music.
Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day.
Folk-trio from Seattle, WA. A good and fresh rendition with some very nice tin-whistle lines in the back-ground.
Cutt Glas: One Voice. CD 1997 One World Entertainment.
Locomotive Breath.
CG is a female a cappella quintet from South Africa. They have produced a most extraordinary version of LB. The intro alone is
absolutely sensational. Likewise the "human train" sounds, especially the passing train in the end. Fabulous!
Alessia D'Andrea: Locomotive Breath. CD single 2004 Renilin.
Locomotive Breath (Long version), Locomotive Breath (Radio version), Locomotive Breath (hidden track), Locomotive Breath
(Video track--live in Rome).
This has to be regarded as a cover, even though it features Ian Anderson himself on flute. The magnificent re-arrangement by L. Ranieri
and the wonderful voice of AD'A makes this one of the absolute top versions of LB. Super!
Darkstar: Darkstar. CD 1995 New Chaos Recordings .
Locomotive Breath.
This heavy outfit credits Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull, but are clearly more influenced by Black Sabbath. An up-tempo
run-through brings nothing new to LB.
Davemania: With You There To Help Me. http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/?aid=1609/singles
The internet makes it possible to put up all kinds of strange efforts for the world to marvel at, like this web-site for instance. Still I wonder
why someone would want to share such a failing piece like this? Maybe just because it can be done, it's fun & it's free? OK, I'll buy that!
Billie Davies: The Best Of Billie Davies. CD 1999 (rec. approx. 1967-72) Pegasus.
Living In The Past.
Smooth introduction leads into somewhat uninspired late sixties nightclub version.
The Dayglo Pirates: Shamelessly Plunder The Music Of Jethro Tull. Promotional Video 1998.
Excerpts of Living In The Past, Acres Wild, Bouree, To Cry You A Song, Back To The Family, Mother Goose,
Aqualung, Locomotive Breath.
Like apparently all Tull tribute bands the DP:s focus on the early seventies material. This "teaser"-video shows the band in
concert, rehearsal and being interviewed. The sound on the video isn't too good, but still it's clear that these guys deliver a
good, solid show that doesn't lack humour. Sure makes you wish you where there.
The Dayglo Pirates: Living In The Past, Nothing To Say, Bourée, Back To The Family, Aqualung. www.dayglopirates.co.uk
Britain's premiere Tull-tribute band, The DPs, have updated and -graded their web-site with some full-length mp3s, as well as
some snippets and video clips. Along with some standards we have the first cover of NTS I've heard. My favourite though has to
be BTTF, with "Mr. Anderson calling"…excellent fun! Check out these friendly pirates.
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