J-Tull Dot Com

J-Tull Dot Com is the 20th studio album by the British band Jethro Tull, released in 1999 on Papillon, the Chrysalis Group's late 1990s heritage record label.^[5][6] 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^[7] 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.

J-Tull Dot Com
Studio album by Jethro Tull
Released	23 August 1999 (UK)
Genre	Progressive rock hard rock folk rock world
Length	54:20
Label	Papillon/Varèse Sarabande
Producer	Ian Anderson
Jethro Tull chronology
Through the Years (1998) J-Tull Dot Com (1999) The Very Best Of (2001)
Singles from J-Tull Dot Com
"Bends Like a Willow" Released: 1999 (UK)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
Jam!	(mixed)[3]
Mojo	(favourable)[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Spiral"		3:50
2.	"Dot Com"		4:25
3.	"AWOL"		5:19
4.	"Nothing @ All" (Instrumental)	Andrew Giddings	0:56
5.	"Wicked Windows"		4:40
6.	"Hunt by Numbers"		4:00
7.	"Hot Mango Flush"	Martin Barre, Anderson	3:49
8.	"El Niño"		4:40
9.	"Black Mamba"		5:00
10.	"Mango Surprise"		1:14
11.	"Bends Like a Willow"		4:53
12.	"Far Alaska"		4:06
13.	"The Dog-Ear Years"		3:34
14.	"A Gift of Roses"		3:54

All tracks are written by Ian Anderson, except where noted.

• 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 (1999)	Peak position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[8]	15
Italian Albums (Musica e Dischi)[9]	33
Scottish Albums (OCC)[10]	62
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[11]	50
UK Albums (OCC)[12]	44
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[13]	5
US Billboard 200[14]	161

See also

• www.pitchshifter.com, an 1998 album also named after the band's domain name