W.L. PROMO 1969 JETHRO TULL STAND UP + POP UPS Psych Folk Blues Ian Anderson

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                          JETHRO  TULL

                            "STAND UP''

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                                  USA - (white promo) - REPRISE RECORDS - RS 6360

50 years ago .... advanced release white label promotional

Stand Up, was the 1969 second album by Jethro Tull.... Prior to this album, the band's original guitarist Mick Abrahams had left the band due to musical differences with Ian Anderson. Abrahams wanted to stay with the blues-rock sound of This Was, while Anderson wished to branch out into other musical forms...which is 'Stand Up' and arguably the best JETHRO TULL album, read on:

Stand Up represents the first album project on which Anderson was in full control of the music and lyrics. The album also marks the first appearance of guitarist Martin Lancelot Barre who appeared on every Jethro Tull album from this point on. The album goes in a different direction from his earlier work, often noted as their best album of all.

The album reached #1 on the British charts. The gatefold album cover, in a woodcut style design with gatefold cover and similar to a child's pop-up book, so that a cut-out of the band's personnel stood up — linking into the album's title. Stand Up won New Musical Express's award for best album artwork in 1969.

There is not one weak track on this little baby. "Look into the Sun", "Nothing is Easy", "We Used to know", "Thousand Mothers", etc... Best known for Bourée, and often probably over-looked because of it, this album is incredibly tight and every number on it is a gem.

"A New Day Yesterday" is a heavily blues-influenced song, and also marks the introduction of Martin Barre's distinctive wandering guitar in the band. It works so well with Glen Cornick's aggressive bass, a sound that frankly Jeffrey Hammond would spend several years trying to emulate after Cornick's departure. This isn't an overly complex arrangement, but looking back it does give hints at the sound that would make the band so well known in the 70's.

On "Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square" Ian Anderson kicks in with a bit of mandolin, giving the song more of a folksy feel. This is a really short tune, really just an interlude before the much more well-known instrumental "Bourée", which has much more prominent flute, bass, organ, and drum work than the first two tunes.

Anderson's voice is stronger on "Back to the Family" than elsewhere on the album, this is another great tune in the band's vast catalog, and Barre's guitar work is quite edgy for an early Jethro Tull album.

The front side of the album closes with "Look into the Sun", a cool song definitely has a very 60's hippy folk feel to it.

On the flip side, "Nothing is Easy" also sports a blues rhythm, but aside from the flute this one is closer to early psychedelic than to folk or progressive. This is also the longest track on the album, mostly due to several extended bits of organ and drum. There sure seems to be an awful lot of prominent bass on this album, and particularly on this song.

When "Fat Man" opens it's hard to tell if this is going to be a calypso song, or what. The bongos add percussion. There's also more mandolin, or maybe it's a balalaika. While the music is quite different than elsewhere on the album, Anderson's voice retains that distinctive folksy lilt. This one has a really different sound than most of anything else Tull has done since.

"We Used to Know" sounds like it could have easily been worked into Aqualung somewhere, or possibly be mistaken for an out-take from that album. It's a bit more brooding than the rest of the album, and the only song wher eone can definitely hear some acoustic guitar.

"Reasons For Waiting" is a bit of a jam song, just a little bit of pretty much every instrument on the album finds its way into this one. Here again the bass is surprising prominent for a folk album.

The album closes with "For A Thousand Mothers", mostly instrumental and a wonderful close to a special album...

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  "A New Day Yesterday" – 4:10
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  "Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square" – 2:12
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  "Bourée" – 3:46
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  "Back to the Family" – 3:48
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  "Look into the Sun" – 4:20
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  "Nothing Is Easy" – 4:25
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  "Fat Man" – 2:52
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  "We Used to Know" – 3:59
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  "Reasons for Waiting" – 4:05
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  "For a Thousand Mothers" – 4:13

CONDITION: The Cover: the gatefold cover is rated: strong "EX" (excellent) very clean actually ...handled lightly and the inside gatefold delicate "pop ups' are mint ....with no split seams, no bends and no writing....rare to find this 49 year old original white promo Reprise label pressing!

The Vinyl: lots of original shine, rated VG(+) as having very light stray hairline scuffs but plays far better noted near entirety with excellent" audio; very enjoyable ....has clean WHITE PROMO Reprise labels with exception of W.R.M.B. radio station file numbers sticker

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