It’s Jethro Tull’s second biggest-selling album in America.” The band’s commercial status was compounded by a double-LP compilation, Living In The Past, issued later in 1972.

Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath (with guitar solo) 1977 by 1016vortex on YouTube The band followed up that album with Thick as a Brick, a dauntingly complex complex album that would become one of ...

Jethro Tull were certainly early to the party when it came to developing the idea of prog rock, but how early did Ian ...

And so, more than 50 years later, the track sits proudly in Jethro Tull set lists. Anderson won’t cast it aside because he knows what the band would be — or, more accurately, wouldn’t be ...

Ian Anderson, co-founder of Jethro Tull, will play the band’s music in celebration of the 50th anniversary of its U.S. debut at shows in Indio and Irvine on July 5-6, 2019. (Photo by Nick Harrison) ...

It always makes me a little crazy When people refer to him as Jethro Tull, who was an early 18th century agricultural scientist who invented the seed drill. Move over, Ben Franklin.

Since 2011, he has performed the band’s music in concert under his own name, rather than that of Jethro Tull, whose worldwide album sales are estimated at more than 60 million.

He was in a support band there, and played flute for them. When Mick [Abrahams], our guitarist, left Jethro Tull, we said how about that guy from the support band? He plays guitar as well as flute.

Although Jethro Tull hasn’t performed in the U.S. since 2011, they’ve been quite prolific overseas. Here’s what the band has been playing at recent shows courtesy of Set List FM.

Jethro Tull released their first album of all-original material since 1999's J-Tull Dot Com in 2022 with The Zealot Gene. The band's previous record was 2003's The Jethro Tull Christmas Album.

The Martin Barre Band will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Surf Ballroom, 460 N. Shore Drive, as part of its U.S. tour celebrating 50 years of Jethro Tull, a British rock band formed in the late ...