JETHRO TULL Benefit - Rare UK 1970 White Label Promo LP
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JETHRO TULL
Benefit
Original UK White Label Promo LP released on Chrysalis Records in 1970.
Presumably issued as a radio plug copy to promote the track 'Inside' (see picture).
ILPS 9123 A//2 / ILPS 9123 B//2
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Benefit was the album on which the Jethro Tull sound solidified around folk music, abandoning blues entirely. Beginning with the opening number, "With You There to Help Me," Anderson adopts his now-familiar, slightly mournful folksinger/sage persona, with a rather sardonic outlook on life and the world; his acoustic guitar carries the melody, joined by Martin Barre's electric instrument for the crescendos. This would be the model for much of the material on Aqualung and especially Thick as a Brick.
Here the acoustic and electric instruments are merged somewhat better than they were on Stand Up (on which it sometimes seemed like Barre's solos were being played in a wholly different venue), and as needed, the electric guitars carry the melodies better than on previous albums. Most of the songs on Benefit display pleasant, delectably folk-like melodies attached to downbeat, slightly gloomy, but dazzlingly complex lyrics, with Barre's guitar adding enough wattage to keep the hard rock listeners very interested.
"To Cry You a Song," "Son," and "For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me" all defined Tull's future sound: Barre's amp cranked up to ten (especially on "Son"), coming in above Anderson's acoustic strumming, a few unexpected changes in tempo, and Anderson spouting lyrics filled with dense, profound imagery and statements. As on Stand Up, the group was still officially a quartet, with future member John Evan (whose John Evan Band had become the nucleus of Jethro Tull two years before) appearing as a guest on keyboards; his classical training proved essential to the expanding of the group's sound on the three albums to come.
Tracks Are :-
Side One
With You There To Help Me
Nothing To Say
Alive And Well And Living In
Son
For Michael Collins, Jeffrey And Me
Side Two
To Cry You A Song
A Time For Everything
Inside
Play In Time
Sossity; You're A Woman
Released on 'Chrysalis Records' in 1970
Catalogue No. ILPS 9123
Disc is in VG+ condition (some surface marks)
Plain white sleeve
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