JETHRO TULL Frontman Ian Anderson Featured In Special Album-By-Album Career Retrospective Interview
March 14, 2011, 13 years ago
Classic Rock Revisited founder Jeb Wright recently caught up with JETHRO TULL frontman Ian Anderson for a special album-by-album retrospective interview. An excerpt is available below.
Jeb: The first album was This Was and the song I want to talk about is “My Sunday Feeling.”
Ian: "That was certainly one of the first tunes that I wrote in the very early stages of Jethro Tull. We were either about to be, or were just recently, christened ‘Jethro Tull’, which was the last of many names that we had at the end of 1967 and early 1968. We were playing at the Marquee Club at the time. It was a song that I must have written on the guitar."
"I wrote it quite intentionally, within the frame of reference, of our then guitarist Mick Abrahams. He could play some things very well, and very confidently, while other things he found really quite difficult, as he indeed did later in ’68, when I was writing songs immediately after the first album. Mick had a lot of difficulty getting his head around these songs and where they were going. “My Sunday Feeling” was a piece for him to play well. It was an easy one for everyone as well, as it was essentially just a 12 bar blues.""Other people have Monday morning blues filled with bad feelings. I just thought, as a song title, Sunday morning was morning of emptiness and loneliness. Especially if you were living like I was at the time and had been playing a pub Friday, and Saturday night, which was full of activity. Sunday morning was a bit of an empty space in my life as I didn’t have any friends where I was living and I was living alone at the time. Sunday morning really was an empty space in my life so I tended to ruminate on that and came up with the song."
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