Benefit (180g LP)

New 2013 stereo mix by Steven Wilson. Cut with Direct Metal Mastering (DMM) 180g heavyweight vinyl.

Benefit is the third album by Jethro Tull, released in April 1970. It was the first Tull album to include pianist and organist John Evan as a session musician, though Evan would get so involved in the touring that he decided to became a permanent member of Jethro Tull. He would stay in the band until the Stormwatch tour, in 1980. Benefit was also the last to include bass guitarist Glenn Cornick, who was fired in the end of 1970 - right after, he founded the band Wild Turkey. The album was released in the beginning of 1970, which allowed the band to tour for a whole year. Their concerts at the time already showed an early version of "My God", which would later appear in Aqualung - the early version can be heard in the Isle of Wight festival and the Carnegie Hall tapes (released with the Deluxe Edition of Stand Up, in 2010).