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Ian Anderson, better known as the voice of Jethro Tull, is hitting the road this fall for 22 solo North American gigs.

Anderson's tour kicked off at the St. Denis Theatre in Montreal on Oct. 14, and it is slated to run through Nov. 24 at the Westbury Music Fair in Westbury, N.Y. Along the way, Anderson also has stops at the Michigan Theatre in Ann Arbor, Mich. on Oct. 27; the Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet, Ill. on Oct. 30; The National in Richmond on Nov. 14; and the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Providence, R.I. on Nov. 21.

Anderson's most recent work was 2005's live album Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull. In 2008, he celebrated his 40th anniversary as a musician.

For a man that has more than 40 years of musical experience under his belt, it comes as no surprise that by the time he was 15 he had already formed his first band, The Blades, with friends at his school.

Though he was the frontman and harmonica player for the band he had yet to take up the flute, which he would later become famous for.

In 1967 the band thought that they would have better luck getting bookings in London, so the (at this point) seven point band moved. However, most of the band members quit within a few days, leaving Anderson and the band's bassist solo in the big city. The duo sought out a guitarist and drummer and, after changing their band name to Jethro Tull, started getting bookings.

It wasn't until just before the release of the first Jethro Tull album (This Was in 1968) that Anderson realized he could play the flute. As his career progressed, Anderson also picked up a number of other instruments including the guitar, the keyboard, the mandolin and the saxophone.

By the time that Jethro Tull had released its 15th studio album (The Broadsword and the Beast in 1982), Anderson was gearing up to branch out with a solo career. His debut solo album came in the form of 1983's Walk into Light. However, he also had some help from Jethro Tull keyboardist Peter-John Vettese.

It was another 12 years before Anderson came back with his solo sophomore album, Divinities: Twelve Dances with God (1995), though by then Jethro Tull had released four more albums, so Anderson had been quite busy. Unlike his first album, all 12 tracks on the second album are instrumental and come from varying cultures, Celtic, Spanish, African, etc. This also differed from the 'hard rock' phase that Jethro Tull experienced during 1987-94.

Jethro Tull's momentum began to slow down in the mid-90s, though they went on to release Roots to Branches (1995) and J-Tull Dot Com (1999) as well as a Christmas album in 2003.

It was with the slow down of Jethro Tull that Anderson began to advance his solo career, and he released two studio albums The Secret Language of Birds (2000) and Rupi's Dance (2003) and one live album in 2005.