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Heavy Horses is an album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
 released by Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
 on April 10, 1978. It is considered the second album in a trilogy of folk-rock albums by Jethro Tull, although folk music's influence is evident on a great number of Jethro Tull releases. The album abandons much of the folk lyrical content typical of the previous studio album, Songs from the Wood
Songs from the Wood

Songs from the Wood is an album by Jethro Tull and is officially considered the first of a trio of folk rock albums despite the fact that folk music elements are present in the work of Jethro Tull both before and after this trilogy....
, in exchange for a more realist perspective on the changing world.






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Heavy Horses is an album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
 released by Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
 on April 10, 1978. It is considered the second album in a trilogy of folk-rock albums by Jethro Tull, although folk music's influence is evident on a great number of Jethro Tull releases. The album abandons much of the folk lyrical content typical of the previous studio album, Songs from the Wood
Songs from the Wood

Songs from the Wood is an album by Jethro Tull and is officially considered the first of a trio of folk rock albums despite the fact that folk music elements are present in the work of Jethro Tull both before and after this trilogy....
, in exchange for a more realist perspective on the changing world. Likewise, the band sound is harder and tighter. The album reached #19 on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling Albums and extended play in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine....
 album chart.

This album was the last studio album to feature John Glascock playing bass on all tracks.

Track listing

(All songs by Ian Anderson)
  1. "...And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps" – 3:11
  2. "Acres Wild" – 3:22
  3. "No Lullaby" – 7:54
  4. "Moths" – 3:24
  5. "Journeyman" – 3:55
  6. "Rover" – 4:17
  7. "One Brown Mouse" – 3:21
  8. "Heavy Horses" – 8:57
  9. "Weathercock" – 4:02


Bonus tracks

The 2003 remastered CD added bonus tracks (previously released on the 20 Years of Jethro Tull
20 Years of Jethro Tull

20 Years of Jethro Tull is a boxed set which spans the first twenty years of Jethro Tull . It was issued onto five LP album: Radio Archives, Rare Tracks, Flawed Gems, Other Sides of Tull, and The Essential Tull....
 box-set and Nightcap
Nightcap

Nightcap : The Unreleased Masters 1972-1991 is a Jethro Tull double CD album released on 22 November 1993 with older and previously unreleased material....
) and extensive liner notes:
  1. "Living in These Hard Times" – 3:10
  2. "Broadford Bazaar" – 3:38


Personnel

  • Ian Anderson – Vocals
    Singing

    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
    , flute
    Flute

    The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike other woodwind instruments, a flute is a reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air against an edge....
    , mandolin
    Mandolin

    A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It is descended from the Mandora, a soprano member of the lute family. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes which are open and are not decorated with an intricately carved grille lik...
    , acoustic guitar, whistles
  • Martin Barre
    Martin Barre

    Martin Lancelot Barre is an England rock music musician.Barre has been the guitarist for Rock music Musical ensemble Jethro Tull since 1969....
     – electric guitar
    Electric guitar

    An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickup to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into an electrical current, which is made louder with an instrument amplifier and a speaker....
  • Barriemore Barlow
    Barriemore Barlow

    Barriemore Barlow is best known as the drummer and percussionist for the rock band, Jethro Tull , from May 1971 to June 1980.Christened Barry, the 'Barriemore' was an affectation to suit the eccentric image of Jethro Tull ....
     – percussion, drums
    Drum kit

    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
  • John Evan
    John Evan

    John Evan played Keyboard instrument for Jethro Tull from April 1970, to June 1980. He was educated at King's College London.He changed his name when his first band , The Blades changed their name to The John Evan Band....
     – organ
    Organ (music)

    The organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard played either Manual or Pedal clavier. The organ is one of the oldest musical instruments in the European classical music....
    , piano
    Piano

    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
  • David Palmer
    Dee Palmer

    Dee Palmer is a United Kingdom arranger and keyboardist best known for having been a member of the rock and roll group Jethro Tull . Palmer is a transwoman who was known as David Palmer for many years, including her stint with Jethro Tull....
     – keyboards, pipe organ
    Pipe organ

    The pipe organ is a keyboard musical instrument that produces sound by venting mechanically compressed air through resonant Organ pipe. Each pipe produces sound at one fixed pitch, so they are provided in sets or "ranks" with one pipe or more per note, each rank having a common timbre and loudness throughout....
    , orchestral arrangements
  • John Glascock
    John Glascock

    John Glascock was the bass guitarist for the rock band Jethro Tull from December 1975 until August 1979. He died in 1979, at the age of 28, as a result of a congenital heart defect....
     – bass guitar
    Bass guitar

    The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
Guest musician:
  • Darryl Way
    Darryl Way

    Darryl Way is a British rock and Classical music musician who, together with Francis Monkman, was a founding member of Curved Air. He is best known as a violinist although he also played keyboards with his band Wolf....
     – violin
    Violin

    The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
     on "Acres Wild" and "Heavy Horses".


External links

  • at Progressive World (Keith "Muzikman" Hannaleck)
  • at Progressive World (Eric Porter)