Songs From The Wood

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Vinyl LP pressing of Steven Wilson's remix of this 1977 album from the rock icons. Songs from the Wood is the tenth studio album by Jethro Tull, released February 1977. The album signaled a new direction for the band, who turned to celebrating British pagan folklore and the countryside life in a wide-ranging folk rock style which combined traditional instruments and melodies with hard rock drums and electric guitars. The album is considered to be the first of a trio of folk rock albums: Songs from the Wood, Heavy Horses (1978) and Stormwatch (1979).[2] On the album cover appears an extended title line: "Jethro Tull - with kitchen prose, gutter rhymes and divers - Songs from the Wood". The title track of the album contain two of these phrases in it's lyrics.

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