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The Very Best of Jethro Tull is an excellent compilation album released in 2001 by the British progressive and folk rock veterans, offering a carefully curated retrospective of the band's extensive and multifaceted history. Led by Ian Anderson, the group became legendary for introducing the concert flute and distinct folk influences into heavy rock music, forging a theatrical genre entirely of their own. This 20-track collection covers the most successful years of the band's golden era, spanning from their late-1960s blues-based experiments to the massive progressive rock monuments of the early 1970s and their later melodic folk-rock pieces. The record showcases Jethro Tull's most famous radio staples and fan favorites, including the heavily driving "Aqualung," the dynamic "Locomotive Breath," and a condensed edit of the originally album-side-length masterpiece "Thick as a Brick," making it the perfect starting point for listeners discovering the band's catalog.