The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
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| Studio album (Christmas) by Jethro Tull | ||||
| Released | 30 September 2003 (US) | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock, folk rock, jazz fusion, Christmas | |||
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62:16 126:29 (with Christmas at St Bride's 2008) |
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| Label | Fuel 2000 , RandM | |||
| Producer | Ian Anderson | |||
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| Allmusic |   |
| Rolling Stone | (favorable) |
The Jethro Tull Christmas Album is the 21st and final studio album released by Jethro Tull, on 30 September 2003 (see 2003 in music).
The Jethro Tull Christmas Album is a mix of new material, re-recordings of Tull's own suitably themed material and arrangements of traditional Christmas music. In 2009, the live album Christmas at St Bride's 2008 was included with the original album on CD.
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…"
Tracks 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 14, and 15 are all re-recordings of previously released pieces. 'Bourée', however, has significant alterations to the musical arrangement.
Recorded Live at St Bride's Church
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