Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Jethro Tull started releasing albums in the late 1960s, but unlike ...

Frontman Ian Anderson has scheduled a massive Jethro Tull tour in support of 2025’s No. 25 U.K. hit album Curious Ruminant.

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS: Jethro Tull posed in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1972. Left to right: John Evan, Ian Anderson, Barriemore Barlow (Barrie Barlow), Martin Barre, Jeffrey Hammond. Jethro Tull is ...

Many bands test out different styles of music over the course of an entire album, switching it up from song to song. Jethro Tull could shift genres several times in the course of a single song, which ...

Curious Ruminant, their 24th studio album, is their folkiest since Stormwatch (1979), which followed Songs From the Wood (1977) and Heavy Horses (1978) to complete the band’s inspired and – given the ...

It would seem to be a surreal experience for the leader of a tribute band to meet and hang out with the leader of the actual band that’s the subject of the tribute. But for Chris Devine, the encounter ...

Mick Abrahams, the original guitarist with prog icons Jethro Tull, has died at the age of 82. Abrahams passed away on Friday ...

Chrysalis Records' advertisement congratulating Jethro Tull on winning a 1989 Grammy contained an in-joke, as their label impishly noted that the flute played by frontman Ian Anderson is "a (heavy) ...

After leaving Jethro Tull, Abrahams went on to found Blodwyn Pig, a blues-rock group that earned critical attention in the ...

In the Canon of Classic Rock Warhorse Songs, there are those with instantly recognizable guitar intros (think “Smoke on the Water” or “Iron Man”) or solos (think “Freebird” or “Comfortably Numb”). But ...

Mick Abrahams, original Jethro Tull guitarist and founder of blues rock band Blodwyn Pig, died on Friday at 82. Martin Barre, who succeeded Abrahams in Jethro Tull and played with the band until its ...