Stand Up

Stand Up, released in 1969, is the second studio album by British rock band Jethro Tull. It was the first Jethro Tull album to feature guitarist Martin Barre, who would go on to become the band's longtime guitarist until its initial dissolution in 2011. Before recording sessions for the album began, the band's original guitarist Mick Abrahams departed from the band as a result of musical differences with frontman and primary songwriter Ian Anderson; Abrahams wanted to stay with the blues rock sound of their 1968 debut, This Was, while Anderson wished to add other musical influences such as folk rock. As a result of Abrahams' departure, Anderson was the sole songwriter on all of the album's tracks, with the exception of the jazz fusion cover of Johann Sebastian Bach's Bourrée in E minor. Anderson's songwriting sees the album shift musically away from the blues rock of This Was, instead favoring more layered and poignant songs drawing influences from folk artists such as Roy Harper, Pentangle and Bert Jansch. However, the album does retain some blues rock influences on tracks such as side openers "A New Day Yesterday" and "Nothing Is Easy".

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