Artist: JETHRO TULL
Album: BENEFIT - THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDIT. (4CD+2DVD BOX)

Release date: 05.11.2021
EAN/UPS: 190295201616
Media type: CD

Fans of Jethro Tull who have been collecting the various deluxe reissues in recent years will be pleased with the news that their 1970 album Benefit will be reissued as an expanded six-disc set in the same ‘book’ format as the reissues that have been so well received over the last six or seven years.

The new 4CD+2DVD deluxe set is a belated 50th anniversary edition and offers a significant upgrade on the 2013 2CD+DVD digi-pak in terms of both audio/video content and packaging.

The first CD in the set repeats Steven Wilson’s 2013 stereo mix and offers additional recordings and the second disc collects associated recordings from the years 1969-1970 in both stereo and mono. CD3 contains a previously unreleased Steven Wilson remix of Jethro Tull performing at Tanglewood in 1970, while the second of two DVDs (region 0, NTSC) offers previously unavailable film footage of that show with a new Steven Wilson 5.1 surround mix available. The fourth and final CD4 contains a newly remastered mono version of a previously unreleased concert at The Aragon Ballroom in 1970. The other DVD offers the 5.1 mix of the album, flat transfers of the US and UK LP master and more (audio-only disc, so region issues are n/a).

The 100-page book, in hardcover book packaging, contains an essay from Martin Webb, who expands upon the 2013 booklet notes. Following that are comments on each of the album’s tracks from, Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, Glenn Cornick and Clive Bunker, as well as interviews with Robin Black (studio engineer of Benefit and many other Jethro Tull albums), Terry Ellis (‘executive producer’ of Benefit), Joshua White who directed the 1970 Tanglewood Festival which features on the second DVD, and Steven Wilson explaining the mixing of Benefit in 2013. In addition there’s an enormous quantity of images of the band and memorabilia from the era.


    CD 1: ORIGINAL ALBUM Steven Wilson Stereo Remixes (1-17
        With You There To Help Me
        Nothing To Say
        Alive And Well And Living In
        Son
        For Michael Collins, Jeffrey And Me
        To Cry You A Song
        A Time For Everything?
        Inside
        Play In Time
        Sossity; You’re A Woman
    Associated Recordings
        Singing All Day
        Sweet Dream
        17
        Teacher (UK Single Version)
        Teacher (US Album Version)
        My God (Early Version)
        Just Trying To Be

    CD 2: ADDITIONAL ASSOCIATED RECORDINGS Original 1969-1970
        Singing All Day
        Sweet Dream(UK single ‘A’ side)
        17 (UK single ‘B’ side)
        The Witch’s Promise (EUR single double ‘A’ side)
        Teacher (UK Single Version) (EUR single double ‘A’ side)
        Teacher (US Album Version) ( US single ‘B’ side)
        Inside (UK Single ‘A’ side)
        Alive And Well And Living In (UK Single ‘B’ side)
        A Time For Everything ( US single ‘B’ side)
    Original 1969-1970 Stereo Mixes
        Sweet Dream
        17
        The Witch’s Promise (UK single double ‘A’ side)
        Teacher (UK Single Version)(UK single double ‘A’ side)
        The Witch’s Promise (US promo single ‘A’ side)
        Teacher (US Album Version) (US promo single ‘B’ side)
    1971 Stereo Remixes
        Singing All Day
        Sweet Dream
        The Witch’s Promise
        Teacher (US album Version)
    Original Radio Spots
        Benefit Radio Spot #1
        Benefit Radio Spot #2

    CD 3: LIVE AT TANGLEWOOD 1970 (Steven Wilson Stereo Remix)
        Introduction And Tuning
        Nothing Is Easy
        My God (incl. Flute Solo)
        With You There To Help Me / By Kind Permission Of
        Dharma For One (incl. Drum Solo (edited))
        We Used To Know
        Guitar Instrumental
        For A Thousand Mothers

    CD 4: LIVE AT THE ARAGON BALLROOM, CHICAGO 1970 (Mono)
        Introduction And Tuning
        My Sunday Feeling
        My God (incl. Flute Solo)
        To Cry You A Song
        With You There To Help Me / By Kind Permission Of
        Sossity; You’re A Woman / Reasons For Waiting
        Nothing Is Easy
        Dharma For One (incl. Drum Solo)
        We Used To Know
        Guitar Instrumental
        For A Thousand Mothers

    DVD 1
        Steven Wilson’s 2013 remix of the album and 5 extra tracks in DTS
        and Dolby AC 3 5.1 surround and stereo 96/24 LPCM
        Flat transfers of the original UK+US LP master in 96/24 LPCM
        & Additional tracks Sweet Dream, 17 & The Witch’s Promise

    DVD 2
        The 1970 Fillmore at Tanglewood Concert on video with Steven Wilson’s 2020 audio remix in stereo and 5.1 surround.