Editing Jethro Tull (band) (section)

===''Roots to Branches'' and ''J-Tull.com'': the world music influences (1995–2000)===
[[File:Jethro tull - Jerusalem 2007.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Jethro Tull performing in [[Jerusalem]], 2007]]

The band toured a semi-acoustic show in 1992 with [[Dave Mattacks]] on drums. The tour was recorded and became Tull's second official live album, ''[[A Little Light Music]]''. At this point in his musical career, Anderson had to re-learn how to play the flute after his daughter, who was taking flute lessons at school, discovered that he used incorrect fingering.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jethro-tull.com/musicians/iananderson/equipment.html |title=Ian Anderson's Equipment&nbsp;– The Official Jethro Tull Website |publisher=Jethro-tull.com |access-date=6 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713103527/http://jethro-tull.com/musicians/iananderson/equipment.html |archive-date=13 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The first Tull releases that contained revised flute playing were in the 1993 ''[[25th Anniversary Box Set]]'' which included, with remixes of classic Tull songs and unreleased live material, a CD of songs from the band's entire back catalogue, re-recorded by the then current line-up. The box set also included the 1993 ''[[Nightcap (album)|Nightcap]]'' compilation album which contained unreleased studio material, mainly from the scrapped pre-''A Passion Play'' album, with many of the flute parts re-recorded.

Dave Pegg, Tull's bass player for fifteen years, made the decision to leave the band during the recording of 1995's ''[[Roots to Branches]]'' album to concentrate on his work with Fairport Convention. Anderson had begun writing songs that featured world music influences, and Pegg was unhappy with the musical direction the band was taking. He contributed to only three of the songs on the album, and played his last concerts with Tull in the UK in September 1995. Doane Perry, returning as the band's full-time drummer, recruited his friend and respected session bass player [[Steve Bailey]] to replace Pegg. Anderson relinquished control of the rhythm section arrangements, leaving them completely to Bailey and Perry, but despite his studio contributions Bailey did not join the band, and Pegg's eventual replacement as Tull bassist was [[Jonathan Noyce]], who took over in October 1995. 
[[File:Jethro tull 1998.jpg|thumb|right|The band performing in Naples, Italy, 1998]]

''Roots to Branches'' (1995) and 1999's ''[[J-Tull Dot Com]]'' were less rock-based than ''Crest of a Knave'' (1987) or ''Catfish Rising'' (1991). The songs on these albums reflected the musical influences of decades of performing around the world. In songs such as "Out of the Noise" and "Hot Mango Flush", for example, Anderson depicted third-world street scenes. These two albums reflected Anderson's feelings about being an old rocker, with songs such as the pensive "Another Harry's Bar", "Wicked Windows" (a meditation on reading glasses), and the gruff "Wounded, Old and Treacherous".