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Ian Anderson features on new Louise Patricia Crane single Tiny Bard
By Jerry Ewing published
Prog singer songwriter Louise Patricia Crane will release her new solo album Netherworld in June

"Somebody has to be the kind of songwriter who doesn’t give a shit if he gets called pretentious." Ian Anderson on the inspiration behind Jethro Tull's RökFlöte
By James McNair published
After a gap of more than 20 years, Jethro Tull returned with their second album of new material this decade. RökFlöte finds the band exploring Norse mythology with a harder edge than last year’s The Zealot Gene

Ian Anderson, Al Di Meola, John Helliwell, Simon Phillips and more guest on new Mandoki Soulmates album
By Jerry Ewing published
Hungarian musician and 'friend of the stars' Leslie Mandoki releases new Mandoki Soulmates album A Memory Of Our Future in May

Why Ian Anderson kept up the silly and sarcastic on solo album Homo Erraticus
By Paul Sexton published
2014 title featured another outing for Gerald Bostock, and indulged the band leader’s passion for being an “amateur flute player”

Jethro Tull reissue 1978 live album Bursting Out as new six-disc set
By Jerry Ewing published
Jethro Tull's three CD/three DVD reissue of Bursting Out will be released in June

“Others’ expectations kept me from taking it seriously for a long time… Some will say, ‘What is this old prat on about?’ but I don’t give a damn”: Why Ian Anderson took the risk of making Thick As A Brick 2
By Dave Ling published
In exploring what could have happened to Gerald Bostock – the child prodigy of the 1972 Jethro Tull album – he explored where else his own life might have taken him

Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson to guest on upcoming Opeth album
By Jerry Ewing published
Swedish prog rockers Opeth are believed to have been working on a new studio album for the past year

Jethro Tull to release Steven Wilson remix of The Château D’herouville Sessions on vinyl
By Jerry Ewing published
Jethro Tull's 'great lost album' The Château D’herouville Sessions will be released in March

“John Paul Jones kept to himself, but Jimmy Page took great delight in showing you what he’d been doing the night before”: Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson on touring with Led Zeppelin, John Bonham’s pranks and Jimmy Page’s ‘fruity’ Polaroids
By Paul Brannigan published
When Jethro Tull opened up for Led Zeppelin on their 1969 US arena tour, it was an eye-opening experience for frontman Ian Anderson

“For all his showmanship, he was first and foremost a composer and musician, making music for the head and the heart”: Rick Wakeman, Ian Anderson, Geoff Downes and others pay homage to Keith Emerson
By David West published
15 classic cuts from the keyboard genius’ career, as loved by the good and the great of prog rock and beyond
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