Jethro Tull ?– Benefit (Reprise Records – RS-6400) US 1970 First Press Vinyl LP
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Jethro Tull ?– Benefit 

Label:  Reprise Records – RS-6400, Reprise Records – 6400 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country: US 

Genre: Rock 

Style: Prog Rock, Folk Rock 

Year: 1970 

 

Notes: Original Reprise pressings changed the running order and replaced "Alive and Well and Living In" with "Teacher". 

Track list 

A1 

With You There To Help Me 

A2 

Nothing To Say 

A3 

Inside 

A4 

Son 

A5 

For Michael Collins, Jeffrey And Me 

B1 

To Cry You A Song 

B2 

A Time For Everything 

B3 

Teacher 

B4 

Play In Time 

B5 

Sossity; You're A Woman 

Companies, etc. 

  • Pressed By – RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis 

Barcode and Other Identifiers 

  • Matrix / Runout: Side 1 (Stamped): 31051-1S I 

  • Matrix / Runout: Side 2 (Stamped): 31052-1S I 

 

 Ian Anderson said that Benefit was a "guitar Riff" album, recorded in a year in which artists like Cream, Jimi Hendrix and "Led Zeppelin" Led Zeppelin were becoming more riff-oriented. Anderson also noted that Benefit is "a rather dark and stark album and, although it has a few songs on it that are rather okay, I don't think it has the breadth, variety or detail that Stand Up has. But it was an evolution in terms of the band playing as 'a band.'" Overall, Anderson considered the album "a natural part of the group's evolution".

According to Martin Barre "To Cry You a Song" was a response to Blind Faith's "Had to Cry Today", "although you couldn't compare the two; nothing was stolen ... The riff crossed over the bar in a couple of places and Ian and I each played guitars on the backing tracks. It was more or less live in the studio with a couple of overdubs and a solo. Ian played my "Gibson SG" and I played a Les Paul (guitar) on it.

 
 


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