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Record Details

Artist: Jethro Tull
Title: Heavy Horses
Format: 12"
Label: Chrysalis
Cat No: CHR 1175
Released: 1978
Country:
Genres: Folk RockProg Rock
Numbered: #115
Status Have
Added To List 18th August 2020
Disc 1 | 12"
No Notes 
A Matrix:
1. "...And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps" 3:11 2. "Acres Wild" 3:22 3. "No Lullaby" 7:55 4. "Moths" 3:24 5. "Journeyman" 3:55  
B Matrix:
6. "Rover" 4:17 7. "One Brown Mouse" 3:21 8. "Heavy Horses" 8:58 9. "Weathercock" 4:02  

Additional Information

Comments Heavy Horses is the eleventh studio album by British progressive rock band Jethro Tull, released on 10 April 1978.
It is considered the second album in a trilogy of folk-rock albums by Jethro Tull, the first and third being Songs from the Wood (1977) and Stormwatch (1979), although folk music's influence is evident on a great number of Jethro Tull releases.
The album abandons much of the folk lyrical content typical of the previous studio album in exchange for a more realist perspective on the changing world — the album is dedicated to the "indigenous working ponies and horses of Great Britain".[2] Likewise, the band sound is harder and tighter.

White text on front cover, inside the photo:
Bring me a wheel of oaken wood
A rein of polished leather
A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky
Brewing heavy weather.

There is a different version with golden text on front cover, below the photo: [r4460442]

This album is dedicated to: The Highland, Welsh Mountain, Shetland, Fell, Dales, Cleveland and the other indigenous working ponies and horses of Great Britain, who, however tiny or great in stature, can truly count themselves as being amongst our Heavy Horses; also, Lupus, Fur, Tigger and Mistletoe - and of course, Shona and young Master James. I.A.

Recorded at Maison Rouge Studio, Fulham, London, January 1978.
Front cover photograph: With thanks to Barley and Sir Jim courtesy of the Courage Shire Horse Centre.

All songs published by Salamander & Son Music Ltd.
First published in U.K. by Chrysalis Records Ltd. 1978.

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