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Title: Good Album, Great Song
Review: This album, on the whole, is not top-grade Tull , but the title track "Heavy Horses" is one of the most beautiful songs ever written by the group. This poignant salute to the Clydesdale Horses and their diminishing role in modern labor pumps out great lyrics and music.The song opens: "Iron clad feather feet pounding the dust/on October's day, towards evening/Sweat embossed veins standing proud to the plough/Salt on a deep chest seasoning." I've always enjoyed the lyrics by Ian Anderson & Co, but nothing they have done is as tangible, or as moving, as the prose in "Heavy Horses."Even if you are not a Jethro Tull fan, this album is worth your money and time. And it's rare that I would recommend a Tull album to non-Tull fans for just one song off that album. Seriously, the song really is that good.
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