J-Tull Dot Com is the twentieth studio album by the British band Jethro Tull, released in 1999 on Papillon, the Chrysalis Group's late 1990s heritage record label. It was released four years after their 1995 album Roots to Branches and continues in the same vein, marrying hard rock with Eastern music influences. It is the first album to feature Jonathan Noyce on bass, who would remain with the band until 2007 in Jethro Tull's longest ever unchanged line-up. This was the last Jethro Tull album to feature all original, new material for 23 years (until the release of The Zealot Gene in 2022), although the band did release a Christmas album in 2003, which contained a mixture of new material, re-recordings of Tull's own suitably themed material and arrangements of traditional Christmas music.
Track listing On some versions of the CD there is a period of silence after "A Gift of Roses" followed by the title track of Anderson's (at the time unreleased) solo album The Secret Language of Birds. The track is preceded by a brief spoken word introduction by Anderson. This extends the length of "A Gift of Roses" to 9:16.
Personnel Ian Anderson – vocals, flute, acoustic guitar, bouzouki Martin Barre – acoustic guitar, electric guitar Jonathan Noyce – bass guitar Andrew Giddings – piano, keyboards, Hammond organ, accordion Doane Perry – drums, percussion
Additional personnel
Najma Akhtar – backing vocals (on "Dot Com")
Charts + Chart performance for J-Tull Dot Com Chart (1999) PeakpositionItalian Albums (Musica e Dischi) Set "Tipo" on "Album". Then, in the "Artista" field, search "Jethro Tull". 33
+ Chart performance for J-Tull Dot Com: Another Cast of the Net Chart (2026) Peakposition Finnish Physical Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) 5 French Physical Albums (SNEP) 56 French Rock & Metal Albums (SNEP) 23 German Rock & Metal Albums (Offizielle Top 100) 4 Hungarian Physical Albums (MAHASZ) 15 Norwegian Physical Albums (IFPI Norge) 2 Norwegian Rock Albums (IFPI Norge) 16 Swedish Physical Albums (Sverigetopplistan) 9
See also www.pitchshifter.com, a 1998 album also named after the band's domain name
References
External links
Ground and Sky review Progressive World review January 2000 Interview