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Tull

British  
/ tʌl /

noun

  1. Jethro (ˈdʒɛθrəʊ). 1674–1741, English agriculturalist, who invented the seed drill

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He plays it in a way that’s equal parts grunting and scatting and which, as Kirk biographer John Kruth has noted, was essentially adopted wholesale by rock star Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.

From The Wall Street Journal

Jethro Tull were formed "out of the ashes" of The John Evan Band and McGregor's Engine, the blues band Abrahams formed with Clive Bunker in the Luton/Dunstable area, said Anderson.

From BBC

Abrahams played on Tull's first album, This Was, but left shortly after it was finished, and went on to found another successful band, Blodwyn Pig.

From BBC

The lackluster Richard Tull has a pile of unpublished manuscripts and pays the bills by reviewing books for a journal nobody reads and editing the equally obscure Little Magazine.

From The Wall Street Journal

It worked... but only once, when the band were asked to stand in for an absent Jethro Tull.

From BBC