And when Tull were a still a blues band - with some mustached guitarist in a fringed leather jacket from Birmingham with a few digits on his fretting hand missing whose name escapes me ... I never knew it was Cornick who played harmonica on that track (or perhaps he didn't, the performance is mimed, only Anderson sings live and might have played the harp in the studio). Although he wasn't yet in the band, the "Jeffrey" in the song is actually already Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond.
I too have a penchant for the early, bluesy Tull, later versions of Tull would sound angular and sometimes very contrived to me, those clever-clever arrangements became self-serving, form over substance, not the greatest fan of Ian Anderson's very mannered vocal style either. My two favorite albums are a strange mix: The still very organic debut and the glammy-decadent-dystopian War Child. Neither the Aqualung nor the Thick As A Brick album, which seem to be the eternal favorites of the Tull congregation, did much for me.