To Cry You a Song: A Collection of Tull Tales

Artist: Various Artists
Label: Magna Carta
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 026245900929
EAN: 0026245900929
ASIN: B000003ZBA

Release Date: 1996-07-02

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Tracks:

A Tull Tale - Magellan
Aqualung - Magellan
Up the 'Pool - Roy Harper/Colm O'Sullivan
Nothing Is Easy - John Wetton/Mick Abrahams/Clive Bunker/Glenn Cornick/Ian McDonald/Phil Manzanera/Robert Berry...
Mother Goose - Lief Sorbye
Minstrel in the Gallery - Robert Berry/Leif Sorbye
One Brown Mouse - Echolyn
Cat's Squirrel - Charlie Musselwhite/Derek Trucks/Mick Abrahams/Clive Bunker/Mike Summerland/Robert Berry
To Cry You a Song - Glenn Hughes/Mick Abrahams/Clive Bunker/Glenn Cornick/Derek Sherinian/Robert Berry
New Day Yesterday - Robby Steinhardt/Ian McDonald/Mick Abrahams/Phil Manzanera/Robert Berry/Clive Bunker/Glenn Cornick..
Teacher - Wolfstone
Living in the Past - Keith Emerson/Mick Abrahams/Clive Bunker/Glenn Cornick
Locomotive Breath - Tempest
Life's a Long Song - Dave and Matt Pegg

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Customer Reviews:

Such a disappointment.......2006-07-15

One album consistently on my top ten list is Aqualung but as we all know the recording quality is abysmal. If you listen to Tull you probably also know Genesis(stay with me). Could you possibly improve the fidelity of their recordings? Enter Magna Carta records and their remake of Genesis favorites SUPPER'S READY by an assortment of contemporary artists(including Annie Halsam of Renaisance fame covering Ripples). Sound Awful? Just the opposite. Many of the covers are better than the originals both musically and in production values. If you have the audio system for it you'll hear ground shaking dynamics rivaling a live Genesis concert. I cannot recomend SUPPER'S READY highly enough. When I learned the same company had a Tull collection I was ravenous. Unfortunately this attempt could not have been worse. The entire collection is covered by a plastic lounge singer that crushes the soul of the music worse than a Bill Murray parody. The ragged angst, empathy, pain and rage of Ian Anderson aren't even in this guys dictionary. Doubling the insult is the instrumentalists are quite good and production quality is competent if not the sublime level of SUPPERS READY. With the right vocalist (Joe Cocker maybe?)this could have been the good stuff. Instead it poisons your mind with what could have been.

Tull Under the Covers.......2006-07-01

This album is pleasantly surprising. For the most part, the album catches the spirit of Tull, and no wonder, as there are four former members of the band guesting here. Not a single note for note renditon, and each song is lovingly reworked in the idiom of the guest artist while keeping the flavor of the composition.

Musically, the playing is inspired and no quibles to the musicianship. My only quibble is with Glen Hughes singing on "To Cry You a Song." The producers needed to get at least one more take, IMO.

Highlights are Aqualung, Up the 'Pool, Teacher, and Lifes a Long Song.

Liner notes are thorough and interesting anecdotes are given as to the person's exposure to Tull and/or Ian Anderson.

If you like Tull and are open minded, you will enjoy this disc as I do.

An excellent tribute to a legendary band - a real treat .......2006-02-26

This is a wonderful collection of Jethro Tull's music, all penned by Ian Anderson, who unfortunately does not appear on this disc. However, the good news is that three of Tull's original line-up do (Mick Abrahams, Glenn Cornick and Clive Bunker) and if you add artistes like Keith Emerson, Glenn Hughes, Roy Harper, Dave Pegg, Phil Manzera, John Wetton (the list goes on!), you have some idea of the talent on display here. This disc is a must for any Tull fan - it's a real treat. The musicianship is excellent, the arrangements work well and the songs cover a good deal of Tull material (from 'A New Day Yesterday', through 'Teacher' and 'Cat's Squrrel', to 'Minstrel in the Gallery'). If you are not so familiar with Jethro Tull's music, then this would be a good place to start. Some of the songs here are almost as good as the originals, but not quite! Jethro Tull have long been one of Britain's, indeed the world's, favourite bands. This album is a high quality homage to their talents, and the genius that is Ian Anderson.

Great -- could have been even better.......2001-05-29

To me, anyway, the highlights on the album are the songs in which artists used different and interesting approaches to familiar material (Up the Pool, Life's a Long Song are standouts). The others range from competent covers to well-rendered tributes (Mother Goose is one). Worth getting if you're a fan of the band. You won't be disappointed.

Entertaining and well-produced tribute album.......2001-03-27

While I wouldn't especially recommend this album to a non-Tull fan, it is a very solid set of tributes which should delight most Tull fans. The covers mainly focus on the 1968-1971 period - not unexpected since three of the contributors are Mick Abrahams, Glenn Cornick and Clive Bunker, the other three original members of Tull. Luminaries like Keith Emerson, Phil Manzanera, Dave Pegg and John Wetton also contribute.

The liner note feature comments from many of the artists regarding who they are and their remarks about Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull, which sometimes makes for interesting reading.

The standout track is a superlative rendition of "Minstrel in the Gallery". Although I'm unfamiliar with Robert Berry, his arrangement and performance is outstanding, putting a new and slightly Celtic spin on the guitar-heavy classic while also giving it a stronger beat.

Renditions of "Aqualung" and "Teacher" toe the line of the originals fairly closely, although Magellan's little additions to the former work quite nicely. Roy Harper's minimalist "songwriter's confessional" spin on "Up the 'Pool" is unexpected and works quite nicely. Mick Abrahams lets his guitar go on one of Tull's earliest popular tracks, "Cat's Squirrel". And Emerson joins Abrahams, Bunker and Cornick on an instrumental version of "Living in the Past".

The album closes out with a quirky but somehow touching cover of "Life is a Long Song" by Dave Pegg and his son Matt.

Your mileage may vary, but I'm willing to bet that fans of early-era Tull won't regret having this one in their collections.

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