The Jethro Tull Christmas Album: Fresh Snow At Christmas Deluxe Edition will be available on December 6th
Jethro Tull’s relationship with the Christmas season goes back to the legendary band’s early days. Now it’s to be renewed for modern-day admirers and longtime fans alike, with the release of an expanded and remixed edition of 2003’s The Jethro Tull Christmas Album on December 6th via InsideOutMusic.
The band’s 21st studio album has been remixed from the original masters by Bruce Soord (The Pineapple Thief), as well as being given the surround sound treatment in both Dolby Atmos and 5.1. The limited deluxe 4 CD/Blu-ray book-set collection features all-new artwork, as well as live material, and includes the following across its five discs.
The Blu-ray feautres a Dolby Atmos, 5.1 Surround Sound and High-Resolution Stereo Mixes of The Jethro Tull Christmas Album, and High-Resolution Stereo Mixes of both live recordings
The album will be released on vinyl for the first time, as a gatefold 180-gram 2 LP featuring the 2024 remixes.
The original version included new interpretations of no fewer than seven Tull songs, including their first to be inspired by the holiday, 1968’s much-loved “A Christmas Song.” That Anderson composition, which opened with lyrics interpolated from “Once in Royal David’s City,” was the B-side of the band’s first UK chart single, “Love Story.”
“A Christmas Song” was joined on the album by reworkings of such pieces as Tull’s 1976 festive hit “Ring Out Solstice Bells,” Weathercock,” first heard on 1978’s Heavy Horses, and “Another Christmas Song,” from 1989’s Rock Island. Also among the re-recordings were J.S. Bach’s “Bourrรฉe,” another longtime live favorite, inimitably imagined by Anderson.
