New Shoes for Jethro Tull's 'Heavy Horses' with 3CD/2DVD Edition in February

New Shoes for Jethro Tull’s ‘Heavy Horses’ with 3CD/2DVD Edition in February

That 2018 release calendar is filling up nicely – and for Jethro Tull fans, there’s a guaranteed treat in yet another remixed, expanded 40th anniversary edition release.

On February 3, Parlophone issues Heavy Horses: New Shoes Edition, a new 3CD/2DVD version of Jethro Tull’s 11th album, originally released in 1978. As with previous releases, Steven Wilson and Jakko Jakszyk have undertaken new remixes in stereo and surround of both the original LP and a host of bonus material. Wilson remixed Heavy Horses and nine associated outtakes (seven of which have never been released in any mix), while Jakszyk remixed a 1978 concert in Bern, Switzerland recorded a month after the album’s release. (At least some of this material is believed to have appeared on that same year’s double live album, Bursting Out.) Two accompanying DVDs feature LPCM stereo (96/24 for the studio material and 48/24 for the live show) and 5.1 surround mixes of what’s on the CD, plus early music videos for “Heavy Horses” and “Moths” and two vintage television spots.

Considered the second in a folk-rock trilogy of the band’s that started with Songs From The Wood (1977) and closed with 1979’s Stormwatch, Heavy Horses matched frontman Ian Anderson’s lyrics about agrarian life and the modern world with a slightly more hard-driving musical soundtrack. Critics and fans alike found much to like in the album, which became their 10th consecutive Billboard Top 20 album (going gold in America, Canada and the U.K.); Rolling Stone said at the time that the band’s folk leanings “has suited Jethro Tull wonderfully.”

Packaged in the same book style as its predecessors, Heavy Horses: New Shoes Edition features a 96-page book of liner notes including lyrics, track-by-track notes by Anderson, interviews with Maddy Prior (who recorded her 1978 solo debut Woman In The Wings with the members of Jethro Tull) , Darryl Way (the Curved Air co-founder who played violin on Heavy Horses), and studio engineer Colin Leggett, and a band timeline that covers all recording and touring from January 1977 to November 1978.

Heavy Horses run free on February 3; pre-order your copy and check out the track list below!

Heavy Horses: New Shoes Edition (Parlophone, 2018)

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Disc 1: Steven Wilson Stereo Remix of original album (Tracks 1-9) plus associated recordings (* previously unreleased)

…And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps
Acres Wild
No Lullaby
Moths
Journeyman
Rover
One Brown Mouse
Heavy Horses
Weathercock
Living In These Hard Times (Version Two) *
Everything In Our Lives *
Jack A Lynn (Early Version) *
Quatrain (Studio Version) *
Horse-Hoeing Husbandry*
Beltane
Botanic Man *
Living In These Hard Times (Version One)
Botanic Man Theme *

Tracks 1-9 originally released as Chrysalis CHR 1175 (U.K./U.S.), 1978. Tracks 15 and 17 from 20 Years of Jethro Tull – The Definitive Collection (Chrysalis T BOXCD 1 (U.K.)/V3K 41653 (U.S.), 1988

Discs 2-3: In Concert at Festhall, Bern, Switzerland – 5/28/1978 – Stereo Remix by Jacko Jakszyk

Opening Music (Quartet)
Introduction by Claude Nobs
No Lullaby
Sweet Dream
Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day
Jack in the Green
One Brown Mouse
Heavy Horses
A New Day Yesterday
Flute Solo Improvisation/God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Bouree
Living in the Past/A New Day Yesterday (Reprise)
Songs from the Wood

Thick As a Brick
Hunting Girl
Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll
Conundrum
Minstrel in the Gallery
Cross Eyed Mary
Quatrain
Aqualung
Locomotive Breath
Dambusters March/Aqualung (Reprise)

DVD 1

All tracks from Disc 1 mixed in 5.1 DTS & DD surround sound (except Track 13) and 96/24 LPCM stereo.

DVD 2

All tracks from Discs 2-3 recorded live to 24-track by The Maison Rouge Mobile, mixed to 5.1 DTS & DD surround sound and 48/24 LPCM stereo
Heavy Horses (promo video)
Moths (promo video)
Two original TV ads

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