Jethro Tull
JETHRO TULL ARCCHIVE/CLAUDE DELORME
Benefit (50th Anniversary Edition) PARLOPHONE/WARNERS
Tull’s third album was the bridge between their R&B beginnings and the style that would define them.
Jethro Tull’s third album, 1970’s Benefit, marked the transition from the R&Bdriven Stand Up and the defining merger of acoustic arrangements and heavy guitar riffs that would characterise Aqualung and beyond. As such it sometimes tends to get forgotten in the grand parade of Tull’s 70s classics. But those who worship at the altar of Aqualung will find plenty here tracing that album’s origins, particularly among the voluminous additional material that expands the original 46-minute album to a four-CD/two-DVD beanfeast.