Talk Tull to Me - a weekly Jethro Tull deep dive

It's been awhile since we had an autobiographical, life on the road, travel song. (Crew Nights, maybe?) Stuff blurs when you travel 473 days out of the year. Nightcap Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull ”No Step” - Jethro Tull "So Fresh, So Clean" - Outkast "Because We Can"- Fatboy Slim ”F...

Maybe that's what American politics needs is just a good old fashioned donnybrook. Then again, they'd all end up with broken hips, I suppose. These spats never end well. Nightcap Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull ”Commons Brawl” - Jethro Tull "So Fresh, So Clean" - Outkast "Inverness Sle...

Rules to live by, strictures of life. They can get you far in life. But if you adhere too staunchly, it could be to your very detriment! Nightcap Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull ”Man of Principle” - Jethro Tull ”Juke Box Hero” - Foreigner ”Fylingdale Flyer” - Jethro Tull ”Cross-Eyed Ma...

A song of unrequited love, a blue collar song, a song of mystery. Plus some serious tambo in the mix. Can't complain about Rosa, that's for sure. Nightcap Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull ”Rosa on the Factory Floor” - Jethro Tull ”Moths” - Jethro Tull ”Christmas Song” - Jethro Tull ”Fyl...

Another menstrual bop. A little empowering, at least? Better than Salamander's Ragtime, certainly. Nightcap Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull ”The Curse” - Jethro Tull ”So Fresh, So Clean” - Outkast ”Just What I Needed” - The Cars ”Take On Me” - A-Ha ”Fylingdale Flyer” - Jethro Tull ”A W...

We heard this just last year in the Broadsword bonus collection. And boy does it sound like it belongs there. We've heard plenty of touring/on the road songs, but this is new angle. Now we're talking about the crew who make it all possible. And their nights. Nightcap Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée”...

A song about growing up, times a-changin', and workin' for the man. Memory is a funny thing. Nostalgia plays tricks. But in the end, we all gotta pay our bills. Nightcap Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull ”Silver River Turning” - Jethro Tull ”So Fresh, So Clean” - Outkast ”Coronach” - Jet...

Who doesn't love a piece of cake? Who doesn't love some good food innuendo? Time's running out, we all pass our prime (rib) eventually. Strike while the sausage is hot! Nightcap Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull ”Piece of Cake” - Jethro Tull ”Bends Like A Willow” - Jethro Tull ”Fylingdal...

You've got your theater imagery. You've got your religious and pagan references. Chivalry and tour busses to boot? What's this one about again? Nightcap Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull ”Left Right” - Jethro Tull ”So Fresh, So Clean” - Outkast ”More Cowbell” - Saturday Night Live (2000)...

One of the only covers ever?! Not counting classical pieces... or jazz, I suppose. But other than those. Here's Ian with some Pink Floyd! Back Against the Wall Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull ”Cup of Wonder” - Jethro Tull ”The Thin Ice” - Ian Anderson ”Left Right” - Jethro Tull ”Baker...

Thank gourd this is the last song on the album. I don’t think I could take another sad, sorrowful, but somehow sweet song! Not sure I could’ve taken another one.  18th studio album - Catfish Rising Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull ”So Fresh, So Clean” - Outkast ”In the Night of Wil...

A second coming story? Some hippy rocking out in a bar? Allegory that falls somewhere in between? Most likely the third, if we know anything about Ian, right?  18th studio album - Catfish Rising Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull “When Jesus Came To Play” - Jethro Tull ”Fylingdale Fl...

What can be said about this song? …seriously though, what can be said? There’s not a whole lot of substance here. Is it just a song about a very specific type of fashion? Not the best fashion, mind you, but very specific all the same. Then Omen comes in with the save, as usual. 18th studio album - Catfish Rising Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art cre...

Ah, more sweet romance. I think? More like the rigors of marriage, I reckon. But there’s still a down-to-earth sweetness present here. Less presentation, more reality. 18th studio album - Catfish Rising Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull “Sleeping with the Dog” - Jethro Tull ”Ol’ Red” - J...

Just when things couldn’t get any sexier on this album! Get that cold shower ready, folks. We’ve got a sweet and spicy one on our hands. Downright sensual I might venture!  18th studio album - Catfish Rising Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull ”Batteries Not Included” - Jethro Tull Gl...

More sexy times incoming! This time they’re slightly food related? Food adjacent, at least. Is this a true story? There’s gotta be some modicum, some nugget, a kernel of origin story in here, right?  18th studio album - Catfish Rising Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull ”Cross-Eyed Ma...

Ian’s all about the romance this album. Not romance in the sense of candle-lit dinners and bouquets, mind you. But weird analogies and allusions to love and how much he needs his significant other. Kinda sweet, though, in its own way?  18th studio album - Catfish Rising Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “...

Another life on the road tune. The good, the bad, the crazy-making. You gotta hit the road to make that bread, but be sure to put in a call to you loved one when you get there. 18th studio album - Catfish Rising Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull ”Cup of Wonder” - Jethro Tull “Still Lovin...

Look ahead. Think about the future. Anticipate what's to come. And then straight-up run away from it! Good or bad, doesn't matter. Ian tells us what to do. 18th studio album - Catfish Rising Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull “Thinking Round Corners” - Jethro Tull ”Fylingdale Flyer” - Jet...

Get out there. Explore life. Experience it. Don't just live your life in a book. According to Omen, that is. Nik's still a square. 18th studio album - Catfish Rising Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull “Sparrow on the Schoolyard Wall” - Jethro Tull ”Fylingdale Flyer” - Jethro Tull ”Cross-E...

You’re in a noisy city you haven’t visited before. You can’t sleep. You hit the pub. You drink the hours away until you can barely keep your eyes open. You wake up and pay for it in the morning. Then you do the same thing over the following night in a different city. Life (and rocks) on the road.  18th studio album - Catfish Rising Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon...

Such a blue collar feel to this album. Ian is commiserating with the everyman. He is letting us know that he feels our pain, he knows what life is like. He used to save shillings to pay for heat, to then cook a can of stew on top of it. Or is this naughty, like Omen thinks, as usual? 18th studio album - Catfish Rising Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . A...

We're all animals. And sometimes we're demons! Ian's thesis that brings all walks of life together to revel in naughtiness. 18th studio album - Catfish Rising Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull “Occasional Demons” - Jethro Tull ”Big Riff and Mando” - Jethro Tull ”Fylingdale Flyer” - Jethr...

A song of unrequited love? The magic being gone from the band? Or the happenings in a town used to having folks pass through it. We manage to cover it all somehow. Jethro Tull covers by Maple 18th studio album - Catfish Rising Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull ”Señor Blues” - Taj Mahal S...

What a good button to the album. We get a reference to the album name. There's a satisfying reincorporation that leads into closure. Next week: a new album!  17th studio album - Rock Island Get your Talk Tull To Me merch here ! Talk Tull To Me Patreon & schedule . Art credit: Burton Silverman Music credits: “Bourée” - Jethro Tull “Strange Avenues” - Jethro Tull ”Heavy Horses” - Jethro Tul...