Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson To Release 'Thick As A Brick 2'

To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the 1972 Jethro Tull concept album 'Thick As A Brick', Tull frontman Ian Anderson has announced plans to release the album's sequel 'Thick As A Brick 2'.  

The original recording was released as a one track near 44 minute album; the concept being it was based on a poem written by a fictious young boy named Gerald Bostock. The album peaked at the Number 1 position on the Billboard Charts.   

The theme behind TAAB 2 explores what may have happened to Gerald Bostock, who would now be 50 years old.  In a statement concerning the project Anderson commented "The theme of this anniversary "part two" album is to examine the possible different paths that the precocious young schoolboy, Gerald Bostock, might have taken later in life and to create alter-ego characters whose song-section identities illustrate the hugely varied potential twists and turns of fate and opportunity. Not just for Gerald but to echo how our own lives develop, change direction and ultimately conclude through chance encounters and interventions, however tiny and insignificant they might seem at the time."

He continued "In the development of the piece, the divergences of life's infinitely forked roads finally give way to an almost gravitational pull which results in convergence to, perhaps, a pre-ordained, karma-like conclusion.  As we baby-boomers look back on our own lives, we must often feel an occasional "what-if" moment. Might we, like Gerald, have become instead preacher, soldier, down-and-out, shopkeeper or finance tycoon?"  

Thick As A Brick 2 is set to be released on April 2nd.  

Thick As A Brick 2 Tracklisting

From A Pebble Thrown
Pebbles Instrumental
Might-have-beens
Upper Sixth Loan Shark
Banker Bets, Banker Wins
Swing It Far
Adrift And Dumfounded
Old School Song
Wootton Bassett Town
Power And Spirit
Give Till It Hurts
Cosy Corner
Shunt And Shuffle
A Change Of Horses
Confessional
Kismet In Suburbia
What-ifs, Maybes And Might-have-beens

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