Editing Heavy Horses (section)

==Reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=AllMusic>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/heavy-horses-mw0000199170 |title=Jethro Tull - ''Heavy Horses'' (1978) album review, credits & releases |first=Bruce |last=Eder |website=AllMusic |access-date=2015-05-01}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Melody Maker]]''
| rev4Score = (unfavourable)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tullpress.com/mm15apr78.htm |title=Jethro Tull - ''Heavy Horses'' (1978) album review on ''Melody Maker'' (15 April 1978) |publisher=TullPress.com |date=1978-04-15 |access-date=2015-05-01}}</ref>
}}
''[[Rolling Stone]]'''s contemporary review was positive, calling the instrumental arrangements lavish and stating that ''Heavy Horses'' and the folk genre, as a follow-up to ''Songs from the Wood'', suited Jethro Tull perfectly.<ref name=RollingStone.com>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jethrotull/albums/album/180122/review/6067638/heavy_horses |title=Jethro Tull - ''Heavy Horses'' (1978) album review |first=Michael |last=Bloom |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=1978-09-21 |access-date=2015-05-01 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404074022/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jethrotull/albums/album/180122/review/6067638/heavy_horses |archive-date=4 April 2009 }}</ref> ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' thought that the band was coasting, but praised "Anderson's enigmatic writing style and his one-of-a-kind voice".<ref>{{cite news |last1=McGrath |first1=Paul |title=Jethro Tull |work=The Globe and Mail |date=26 Apr 1978 |page=F2}}</ref>

[[AllMusic]] calls ''Heavy Horses'' one of the prettiest records of the band, praising both Martin Barre's and John Glascock's playing as Robin Black engineering and the special participation of [[Curved Air]] violinist Darryl Way.<ref name=AllMusic/>