And it was also made more poignant by the fact that I was at the time driving through fields of various crops in northern Italy, and as indeed Jethro Tull traveled to learn about European farming methodology in order to write about and try to put some of those practices to work on his own farm back in England.”Īnderson said the original Tull suffered from pulmonary diseases, and that’s why he found himself in that part of Europe, trying to gain a bit of rest and relaxation.
So when I started reading stuff about him, I was immediately struck by many elements of the details of his life, and times that conjured up songs that I had written. “So I amused myself by going online and learning a little bit about the life and times of the original Jethro Tull, because over the years I’ve really avoided knowing too much about him, as of a bit of embarrassment at being named by our agent after a dead guy when I obviously hadn’t been paying attention in history class at school and didn’t know about the original Jethro Tull back in 1968. “Well, I was traveling through Europe last summer and sitting in the back of a car, and I had an Internet connection,” Anderson said recently during a phone interview. Although he’ll definitely play the Tull classics - “Living in the Past” and “Locomotive Breath” are likely additions - the concert experience will be fashioned into a rock opera, telling the story of the original Jethro Tull, an English agricultural inventor who gave the band its namesake. Ian Anderson, the legendary rock ‘n’ roller behind the influential band Jethro Tull, has a few changes in store for his string of North American concert dates this fall.
Ian Anderson will bring Jethro Tull’s story to life this fall in the U.S.
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