Name: Heavy Horses
Brand: Parlophone
SKU: 825904
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Heavy Horses

Rating

Album: Heavy Horses
#	Song Title		Time
1)	And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
2)	Acres Wild (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
3)	No Lullaby (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
4)	Moths (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
5)	Journeyman (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
6)	Rover (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
7)	One Brown Mouse (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
8)	Heavy Horses (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
9)	Weathercock (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
10)	Living In These Hard Times (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
11)	Broadford Bazaar (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...

Album: Heavy Horses
#	Song Title		Time
1)	And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
2)	Acres Wild (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
3)	No Lullaby (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
4)	Moths (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
5)	Journeyman (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
6)	Rover (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
7)	One Brown Mouse (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
8)	Heavy Horses (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
9)	Weathercock (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
10)	Living In These Hard Times (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...
11)	Broadford Bazaar (2003 Remastered Version)	More Info...

Performer Notes

Jethro Tull: Ian Anderson (vocals, guitar, mandolin, flute); Martin Barre (guitar); John Evan (piano, organ); David Palmer (portative pipe organ, keyboards); John Glascock (bass); Barriemore Barlow (drums).
Additional personnel: Darryl Way (violin).
Recorded at Maison Rouge Studio, Fullham, London in January 1978.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Personnel: Ian Anderson (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, flute); Martin Barre (electric guitar); John Evan (piano, organ); Dee Palmer (keyboards); Barriemore Barlow (drums, percussion).
Liner Note Author: Ian Anderson .
Recording information: Maison Rouge Studios, Fulham, London, England (01/1978).
Photographer: Shona Anderson.
HEAVY HORSES brings together the best elements of Jethro Tull's sonic arsenal: heavy guitars, intricate, evolving song structures, folk tendencies, and Ian Anderson's inimitable growl. The album opens with the bouncy "And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps," a fairy tale-like song about the adventures of a group of forest animals. "Acres Wild" features a disco-esque groove held down by funky drums and bass.
The album's out-and-out highlight is the nearly eight-minute "No Lullaby," a song that undergoes the sort of musical metamorphoses present in Tull's best material. Another exceptional effort is the multi-textured title track, a song written as a tribute to the farm horses in England (which, at the time of the album's release, were declining in number). HEAVY HORSES is one of the band's most heartfelt efforts.

Professional Reviews

Q (11/99, p.163) - Included in Q Magazine's Best Folk Albums of All Time - "...this is Tull on top form. Never has folk rocked so hard."