Jethro Tull The Witchs Promise

The Witch s Promise is performed by Jethro Tull in 1970. about the album Benefit: Group leader Ian Anderson begin experimenting with production techniques, including the famed backwardplayed flute on With You There to Help Me which would become a concert joke as Ian turned his back to the audience to play the opening notes. This track, and others, reflect, IanAnderson s budding romance with a Chrysalis secretary who would become Ians first wife. The experimentation, however, gives the album a very late 60s, early 70s feel which may sound dated and unapproachable to the modern rock ear. Yet, many Tull fans consider it among the bands greatest works. Elsewhere, Son continues Ians parental relations theme from Stand Up. Mostly recorded in December 1969 and January 1970, Benefit was the bands first album to feature keyboards played by the bands old school chum John Evan. Evan completed the third Tull lineup when he joined Ian Anderson on lead vocals, flute, Martin Ba