Roots To Branches (studio album)
by Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull bestography
Roots To Branches is ranked 15th best out of 46 albums by Jethro Tull on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Jethro Tull is Thick As A Brick which is ranked number 316 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,395.
(N.B. Bestographies do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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85/100 ![]() | 05/01/2025 14:52 | steve397 | ![]() | 75/100 |
75/100 ![]() | 01/25/2025 12:27 | TonySayers61 | ![]() | 64/100 |
75/100 ![]() | 01/06/2025 09:17 | Fullsized | ![]() | 85/100 |
70/100 ![]() | 06/01/2024 16:34 | platus | ![]() | 74/100 |
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This is a personal favour from the later Tull era. If I ever see this issued on vinyl I will snap it up. I love the eastern influences on this album. I will make do with the CD for now.

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This is a heavily underrated Tull album. When it was released, the public saw the group as a dinosaur that seemed to make itself even more irrelevant with every new offering. That is a shame, especially because as a musician you are chained to “Locomotive Breathe” while you also like to receive feedback about new work. But "Valley" and the beautiful "Beside Myself" are a socially critical songs ("bring back the tablets of stone", child prostitution in India) that stands up to the comparison with the so-called classics. The texts (how could it be otherwise?) are again of a particularly high level. The arrangements are perfect and the production excellent. If you have doubts, give the music a chance. You will not be disappointed. Labels such as Prog rock or Folk rock are no longer able to interpret Tull. As a writer and composer, Ian Anderson is too unique to dismiss him as a thing from the 1970s.
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