The second best phase

Songs from the Wood rings after the weak "Too old to rock and roll", a second phase of ingenious Tull, comprising depending upon counting 3 to 5 albums. Here Jethro Tull prästentieren first time through and through as a folk-rock musician with "kitchen prose and gutter rhymes", but at 100% in the Jethro Tull-style, so not a traditional, somewhat stale folk rock ala Steeleye Span. Acoustic instruments have clear priority, mandolin, flute, acoustic guitar, yet the album is incredibly powerful. Only the aufwartende with distorted guitars Pibroch and the classic Green Velvet who usually associates more with baroque music, fall out of the ordinary. A thematically largely self-contained album to country living, hunting, forest spirits, campfire et cetera, lyrical always provided with Anderson's winking, musical played by musicians at the peak of their abilities. In particular, the late lamented bassist John Glascock must be mentioned here.

The cover reflects the way congenial music again. Here I have to clean up with a widespread misconception in forums:
the cover is not a painting, but a post-processed, over maltes Photo. Indeed, there are actually photos from this photo session, for example, in the UK tour in 1977. That tour program is back in the credits "painted by ..." refers only via the "Nachmalen" on the photo.
The CD contains two bonus tracks. But you should be careful that you do not get caught with the output copy control, because that can lead to problems when playing, depending on the CD player.