Songs From The Wood  by Jethro Tull

The tenth studio album by the British band Jethro Tull is titled Songs From The Wood and was released in 1977. Many consider it to be the first album of a trilogy where the element of folk rock music is particularly prominent. The folk elements of the album start from the cover and its title. Ian Anderson has just returned from hunting in the English countryside and has lit a fire to cook. The two following albums are Heavy Horses and Stormwatcher.

Dee Palmer, who had been a close collaborator of Jethro Tull for eight years as a composer and orchestrator, becomes a core member of the band from this album onward. The album was simultaneously far and close to the band's other recent works. Far, because any hint of hard rock had disappeared, and close, because it still maintained its progressive character, like the other albums.

Songs From The Wood was also a commercial success as it went gold in Canada and the USA, while in Jethro Tull's homeland it reached No. 13 and went silver, selling 60,000 copies.