Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 is a live album

Live album

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 by Jethro Tull

Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and the guitar work of Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969.Initially playing blues rock with...

, released on 2 November 2004. It was recorded on the fifth and last day of the Isle of Wight Festival 1970

Isle of Wight Festival 1970

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, where Jethro Tull were second on the bill between The Moody Blues

The Moody Blues

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 and Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

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Track listing

1. "My Sunday Feeling" – 5:20
2. "My God" – 7:31
3. "With You There to Help Me" – 9:58
4. "To Cry You a Song" – 5:40
5. "Bourée" – 4:34
6. "Dharma for One" – 10:10
7. "Nothing Is Easy" – 5:36
8. "We Used to Know / For a Thousand Mothers" – 10:36

Personnel

• Ian Anderson – acoustic guitar, flute
  Flute
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  , vocals
  Singing
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• Martin Barre
  Martin Barre
  Martin Lancelot Barre is an English rock musician.Barre has been the guitarist for rock band Jethro Tull since 1969. He has appeared on every Jethro Tull album except their debut This Was...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
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• Clive Bunker
  Clive Bunker
  Clive William Bunker is a British rock drummer. He was the original drummer in the British band Jethro Tull....
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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• Glenn Cornick
  Glenn Cornick
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   – bass
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• John Evan
  John Evan
  John Evan , played keyboards for Jethro Tull from April 1970 to June 1980. He was educated at King's College London....
  
   – keyboards
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DVD

Like Living with the Past

Living with the Past

Living with the Past is a live album by Jethro Tull. Disc one contains material from the Hammersmith Apollo performance on November 20, 2001 and features songs from different eras of Tull's history as well as two pieces from Ian Anderson's solo albums: "The Habanero Reel" from The Secret Language...

, this album is both a CD and a DVD

DVD

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The DVD was released 22 March 2005, and contains many of same songs as the CD.

1. "Bourée" (from the soundcheck)
2. "My Sunday Feeling" - 4:19
3. "A Song for Jeffery" (from The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
   The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
   The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus is a film released in 1996 of an 11 December 1968 event put together by The Rolling Stones. The event comprised two concerts on a circus stage and included such acts as The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and Jethro Tull...
   
   in 1968)
4. "My God" - 9:29
5. "Dharma for One" - 14:50
6. "Nothing Is Easy" - 5:59
7. "We Used to Know / For a Thousand Mothers" - 7:50

"With You There to Help Me" and "To Cry You a Song" have not been included, and the "We Used to Know / For a Thousand Mothers" medley has been shortened.

External links

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• Nothing is Easy at Allmovie (DVD
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