This Was

(1968)

“it’s all in the title, isn’t it? This was Jethro Tull. That’s no accident because when we were recording it, the one thing i felt sure about is that if we were lucky enough to make another album, i knew it wouldn’t be like this one: based on blues elements and black american folk culture. That’s not part of my life and i couldn’t keep doing that – i’d look like a complete twit. The cover had no logo or anything and people were telling me we couldn’t do that, but we did it, of course.”