The Jethro Tull Christmas Album

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The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
Studio album (Christmas) by Jethro Tull
Released	September 30, 2003 (U.S.)
Genre	Rock
Length	62:16
Label	RandM records (UK) & Fuel 2000 (U.S.)
Producer(s)	Ian Anderson
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Progressive World link
Jethro Tull chronology
Living with the Past (2002)	The Jethro Tull Christmas Album (2003)	Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 (2004)

The Jethro Tull Christmas Album is an album released by Jethro Tull on September 30, 2003 (see 2003 in music).

Ian Anderson about the song Birthday Card at Christmas: " My daughter Gael, like millions of other unfortunates, celebrates her birthday within a gnat’s whisker of Christmas. Overshadowed by the Great Occasion, such birthdays can be flat, perfunctory and fleetingly token in their uneventful passing. The daunting party and festive celebration of the Christian calendar overshadows too, some might argue, the humble birthday of one Mr. J. Christ. Funny old 25ths, Decembers…"

[edit] Track listing

1. "Birthday Card at Christmas" – 3:37
2. "Holly Herald" (Instrumental) – 4:16
3. "A Christmas Song" – 2:47
4. "Another Christmas Song" – 3:31
5. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (Instrumental) – 4:35
6. "Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow" – 3:37
7. "Last Man at the Party" – 4:48
8. "Weathercock" – 4:17
9. "Pavane" (Instrumental) – 4:19
10. "First Snow on Brooklyn" – 4:57
11. "Greensleeved" (Instrumental) – 2:39
12. "Fire at Midnight" – 2:26
13. "We Five Kings" (Instrumental) – 3:16
14. "Ring Out Solstice Bells" – 4:04
15. "Bourée" (Instrumental) – 4:25
16. "A Winter Snowscape" (Instrumental) – 4:57

[edit] External links

• The Jethro Tull Chistmas Album 2003 at All Music Guide
• The Jethro Tull Chistmas Album 2004 at All Music Guide (bonus dvd)
• Official Website
• Progressive Archives
• DPRP CD Review
• Rolling Stone Review