Huntsmen have shared their cover of Jethro Tull‘s “Mother Goose.” The track is taken from Magnetic Eye Records’ new “Aqualung“ tribute album “Aqualung Redux.” That effort will be released on December 6 alongside another tribute record called “The Best Of Jethro Tull Redux.”
Huntsmen guitarist/vocalist Chris Kang commented:
“Admittedly, we aren’t necessarily massive Jethro Tull fans but had wanted to work with Magnetic Eye for a long time, so when this invitation came up, we were like… okay, what the hell do we do with this?
Figuring out how to approach it was seriously a fun, happy, and rewarding challenge, and we decided to lean into two main things remarkable about ‘Mother Goose‘: the folk element and the abstract insanity of the lyrics. We had a lot of fun trying to sing those crazy lyrics as dead-seriously as possible, as if they were totally normal things to say, like: ‘and the chicken-fancier came to play!’.
And of course adding a bunch of heaviness and noise was also very entertaining. By the end, we just had a shit ton of fun cutting loose and making it as weird and heavy as we could, and we all ended up feeling super proud of our contribution.”
“Aqualung Redux“ Track Listing:
01. Chris Goss & Alain Johannes – “Aqualung”
02. The Well – “Cross-Eyed Mary”
03. Osi And The Jupiter – “Cheap Day Return”
04. Huntsmen – “Mother Goose”
05. The Otolith – “Wond’ring Aloud”
06. Motorpsycho – “Up To Me”
07. Big Scenic Nowhere – “My God”
08. Saturna – “Hymn 43”
09. Mammoth Volume – “Slipstream”
10. The Sword – “Locomotive Breath”
11. Domkraft & Arvid Hällagård – “Wind-Up”
“Best Of Jethro Tull Redux” Track Listing:
01. Mr Bison – “Reasons For Waiting”
02. Sweat – “Back To The Family”
03. Hashtronaut – “Bungle In The Jungle”
04. Elephant Tree – “We Used To Know”
05. The Golden Grass – “The Teacher”
06. Sergeant Thunderhoof – “Son”
07. Oceanlord – “Sweet Dream”
08. Lowrider/Elephant Tree – “Nothing To Say”
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