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Jethro Tull: Songs From The Wood | Extended Play Lounge, Ep. 106 (Patreon)

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2026-01-21 03:29:23
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This is one of those albums that demands repeat listens. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this exotic folk rock album...and I feel like there's still quite a bit of magic to yet tap into upon future listens. It was great to get back to music from Jethro Tull after more than two years! I'm curious as to which JT album y'all think we should hear next...

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Jethro Tull: Songs From The Wood | Extended Play Lounge Ep. 106

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Duff

I can't wait to listen with you to my favorite Jethro Tull album !

Claudio Fernandes

Yay!!!!!! I'm so happy Doug is finally going to listen to one of my favourite lifetime albums. This one has got a special place in my heart.

Tom (the soggy one)

In the 1970's, WLRS (The Walrus) was Louisville's only long-form FM rock station. And ALL of this album got a lot of airplay, in between Frampton, Zeppelin, Yes, ELP, etc., etc. The only noticeable absence was "Hunting Girl", which was restricted to air only after 9:00 pm, due to its, ahem, subject matter. More like its flaunting of its subject matter. Still great...

Tom (the soggy one)

I have three favorite Tull songs- Dark Ages, Songs From The Wood and especially Fire At Midnight. It's simple, intimate, warm and cozy. And I have to respectfully disagree, Doug- Fire is the perfect end to this album. Like putting out the light and going to bed.

Stuart Moulder

Doug, you sweet, sweet innocent child. Maybe let your wife explain what Hunting Girl is about. It ain't romance though. I first heard this when I was 16 and even then I knew what Ian was on about. OK, I can't resist. It's a BDSM song. The poor peasant bloke thinks he's getting lucky with the "high-born" hunting girl. But what she's into is riding this naive guy (down on his knees) and treating him as her "ride" including spurs and leather. He escapes without too much damage done. Similarly, Velvet Green is not one bit romantic and is, in fact, a bit tragic. It's about a girl who is lured into a mid-summer's tryst on "Velvet Green" with all the risks that entails - "August's rare delights may be April's fool" (that's nine months for those who are counting). Pibroch is usually a funeral march - in this case, the funeral is the love that the narrator still nurtures that is shown to be useless in the end. Love that you got to hear this. It is probably my favorite Tull album. I believe the level of musicianship on offer here is the highest they achieved. I think if you read the lyrics a bit more carefully, you'll see more cynicism about love than romance. But at any rate, it's all very good stuff.

Tom (the soggy one)

True story- in 19777, I was 11 and thus forced to listen to the aforementioned WLRS FM station that was a favorite of my older sister and brother. For Christmas that year, I received 8-tracks of both this album and Dan Fogelberg's "Nether Lands", both at my request. My first non-Carpenters music. Is it any wonder I became a huge prog-head?

Tom (the soggy one)

As much as I love this album, I still say it was Tull co-opting a lot of the Gentle Giant sound, merging it with their own. 'Sall good- I love them both.

Tom (the soggy one)

Last comment, I promise- you mention the trio of related albums, and in fact I think Beltane is much more in the vein of Stormwatch, both musically and production-wise, though the themes are very SFTW. Perhaps that's why this demo got lost along the way. Personally, I say do Stormwatch next, but Heavy Horses would keep it in sequence. And I will admit to not taking to Heavy HOrses at the time, so I don't know it at all.

Eusebio R-Z

This was a very enjoyable reaction and commentary video to one of my favorite albums of all time. Thank you Doug! Btw, the Green man is a figure of pagan mythology, a leaf-faced man that represents the life-force of nature. As it often happens it got mixed into Christian imagery, and can be found occasionally in wood carvings in churches and cathedrals in Britain and France

Ralph Darvill

What an excellent listen Doug. Your analysis as ever is great, and the background to the "pagan" adds great interest. Tull really didn't give a shit about musical trends did they? When this album came out Punk was at its absolute height in the UK, and "Prog" was dead (worth noting that John Lydon was a huge fan of Peter Hammill and VDGG!), so Yes, Genesis, Tull, ELP were all going to be history... So they all changed as you say. The Green Man is possibly the most significant Spring figure in British folklore (I'd recommend a beautiful song by XTC called "The Green Man". Of course Dave Gregory was a third of that band). Ian was always fond of a double entendre, or sexual reference, I wonder if the album title is a reference to the inspiration for many of the songs, he seems to be at his most peckish and priapic here! Definitely check out Heavy Horses and Stormwatch (and Broadsword) they dig deep into English countryside life, and more profound ecological matters respectively. And Prog survived and thrived didn't it.

Pam Norris

I hope the next album is War Child.

Richard Rathbun

War Child is one Doug would like very much! Me, too! Also Minstrel in the Gallery! Both are terrific records.

Brian Rolfe

Has to be SFTW pt 2 Heavy Horses

Aarf

Next album? Mmm, I'd like "Stand Up", "Benefit" or "War Child". The first two are before "Aqualung" and "War Child" is the one after "Passion Play". But, as always, I hope we will listen together to all these album and more sooner or later. Meanwhile, thank you for this reaction, Doug!

Jim Tackett

Stand Up and Benefit are too essential to miss.

Steven Charlton

While the calander might say Spring starts on a certain day of the year, for us in The Orkney and Shetland Islands it is still the middle of Winter as it takes 4 - 6 weeks after that date for Spring to reach us!!!

Craig Higgins

I always felt Belatane belonged sonically to the Heavy Horses album, despite the pagan lyrics. Vocally and arrangement-wise, it has Heavy Horses fingerprints all over it.

Ruth James

Personally, I love their much more recent album, RokFlote. Whilst Ian's voice sadly lacks the quality of the past, his flute playing is fabulous.

Nick

Next one? Heavy Horses!

grnmntl

Heavy Horses

Thomas Kirschner

For me the best Tull-album, combining folk, rock - and prog - and baroque! Many parts, especially in Velvet Green and Pibroch remind me of baroque chamber music regarding the counterpoint and the polyphonic writing. I think Dee Palmer (the guy with the portative pipe organ), is responsible for these parts. In Pibroch, we have at 3:23 a kind of fugato - did you notice that? Great musicianship!

Jeff Norman

FYI Dee Palmer was, at the time, working under a different name, but at some point later transitioned. She is a trans woman. So "she" is the proper pronoun ("Dee" is ambiguous, but I thought you would want to know).

Potted Rodent

Heavy Horses and Too Old to Rock n Roll, both seem to always be overlooked.

Walker Bachman

Beltane was actually recorded during the sessions for the next album, which was Heavy Horses

David Edinborough

War child! Dance the days, and dance the nights, away!

Todd Howard

Sheesh - I should have known you would do this album!!! Just love it!! Pibroch - cap in hand... one of the coolest (hard to figure out!) main riff rhythms of all time!

Todd Howard

I should add Thick as a Brick is on my top ten albums off all time list.

Dave Cohen

Re the vocals for the track, Songs from the Wood, check out the live version, where those a capella harmonies shine.