Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses: New Shoes Edition (1978) {2018, 3CD+2DVD Box Set, 40th Anniversary Edition}
3CD | EAC Rip | WavPack (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 1,07 Gb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 457 Mb | Full Scans ~ 738 Mb
2DVD-9 | ISO | MPEG-2, NTSC 720x480 (16:9), 5605 kb/s | Audio #1: DD 5.1 (48/16), 448 kb/s
Audio #2: DTS 5.1 Surround (96/24), 1510 kb/s | Audio #3: LPCM 2.0 (96/24), 1024 kb/s | ~ 15,2 Gb | RAR 5% Recovery
Folk Rock, Progressive Rock | Chrysalis Records #0190295757915
Jethro Tull's 11th studio album, Heavy Horses, is one of their prettier records, a veritable celebration of English folk music chock-full of gorgeous melodies, briskly played acoustic guitars and mandolins, and Ian Anderson's lilting flute backed by the group in top form. This record is a fairly close cousin to 1977's Songs from the Wood – and was ultimately the hinge-piece and first of an ecologically themed trilogy which concluded with 1979's Stormwatch – except that its songs are decidedly more passionate, delivered with a rough, robust energy that much of Tull's work since Thick as a Brick had been missing. In its lustiness it arguably surpasses even Aqualung. "No Lullaby" is the signature heavy riff song, a concert version of which opened Bursting Out: Jethro Tull Live recorded that same year. Anderson sings it – and everything else here – with tremendous intensity, as though these might be the last lines he ever gets to voice.