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Heavy Horses
Like 1977's Songs from the Wood, Heavy Horses is often unfairly posited as the thematic follow-up to its aforementioned studio predecessor. While Songs from the Wood evokes a magical atmosphere, Heavy Horses is far more earthly. Indeed, on the nine-minute-long title-track--a most poetic ode to the England's plough horses--Ian Anderson sings with the sorrow of a farmhand witnessing modern harvesting equipment coming over the horizon for the first time. One can even forgive him the rather randy line, "Let me find you a filly for your proud stallion seed, to keep the old line going." Sure, there's plenty of prattle about drinking afternoon tea with mice, but tracks like "Moths" and "Acres Wild" mark Heavy Horses as a must-own title in the Jethro Tull canon. --Kevin Maidment
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Tracks| 1 | And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps | | 2 | Acres Wild | | 3 | No Lullaby | | 4 | Moths | | 5 | Journeyman | | 6 | Rover | | 7 | One Brown Mouse | | 8 | Heavy Horses | | 9 | Weathercock | | 10 | Living in These Hard Times [*] | | 11 | Broadford Bazaar [*] |
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