The Jethro Tull Christmas Album is an album released by Jethro Tull on September 30, 2003 (see 2003 in music). The songs are a mix of new material, re-recordings of Tull's own suitably-themed material and arrangements of traditional Christmas 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 ...
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The Jethro Tull Christmas Album is an album released by Jethro Tull on September 30, 2003 (see 2003 in music). The songs are a mix of new material, re-recordings of Tull's own suitably-themed material and arrangements of traditional Christmas 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…"
Tracks 3, 6, 8, 12, 14, and 15 are all re-recordings of previously released songs. The only one with actual alterations to the musical arrangement is 'Bourée', so it could be regarded as an entirely new song.
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