The Jethro Tull Christmas Album


The Jethro Tull Christmas Album is the 21st studio album released by Jethro Tull, on 30 September 2003. As of, it is the band's most recently released studio album.

Content

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.
Of the opening song, Birthday Card at Christmas, Ian Anderson has said:

Track listing

  1. "Birthday Card at Christmas" – 3:37
  2. "Holly Herald" – 4:16
  3. "A Christmas Song" – 2:47
  4. "Another Christmas Song" – 3:31
  5. "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" – 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" – 4:19
  10. "First Snow on Brooklyn" – 4:57
  11. "Greensleeved" – 2:39
  12. "Fire at Midnight" – 2:26
  13. "We Five Kings" – 3:16
  14. "Ring Out Solstice Bells" – 4:04
  15. "Bourée" – 4:25
  16. "A Winter Snowscape" – 4:57
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.
'God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen' has been played in concert many times over the years: this is the first studio version.

Christmas at St Bride's 2008

Recorded Live at St Bride's Church
  1. "Weathercock" – 4:41
  2. "Introduction: Rev. George Pitcher / Choir: What Cheer" – 3:32
  3. "A Christmas Song" – 3:19
  4. "Living in These Hard Times" – 3:44
  5. "Choir: Silent Night" – 3:06
  6. "Reading: Ian Anderson, Marmion" – 2:17
  7. "Jack in the Green" – 2:33
  8. "Another Christmas Song" – 3:56
  9. "Reading: Gavin Esler, God's Grandeur" – 1:50
  10. "Choir: Oh, Come All Ye Faithful" – 3:50
  11. "Reading: Mark Billingham, The Ballad of The Breadman" – 3:33
  12. "A Winter Snowscape" – 3:39
  13. "Reading: Andrew Lincoln, Christmas" – 3:12
  14. "Fires at Midnight" – 3:38
  15. "We Five Kings" – 3:19
  16. "Choir: Gaudete" – 3:39
  17. "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen / Thick as a Brick" – 10:25

    Personnel

;Jethro Tull
;Additional personnel