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Catfish Rising
Studio album by Jethro Tull
Released	September 10, 1991 US
Recorded	Early 1991
Genre	Progressive Rock
Length	60:24
Label	Chrysalis
Producer(s)	Jethro Tull
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link George Starostin (overall rating: 9/15) link
Jethro Tull chronology
Live at Hammersmith '84 (1990)	Catfish Rising (1991)	A Little Light Music (1992)

Catfish Rising is an album by the British progressive rock group Jethro Tull, released in 1991.

"Roll Yer Own" is a song about female masturbation. Back in 1991, the year the album was published, Ian had a guest appearance in an American Radio Show called Upclose. This show has been recorded and is published on CD (limited edition). During the show Ian said that he had been in a very embarrassing position a few weeks before when he was doing a BBC Radio 2 show on a radio channel that is, according to Ian, "more aimed at, dare I say — and I hate to say the word — housewives".

Gloria Hunniford, host of the show, didn't want to play "This Is Not Love". She said this would be a "little too rock" for her show and preferred to play Roll Yer Own. Then she asked Ian "to tell [her] something about it". Ian tried to avoid the subject by making "frantic signs from the other side of the microphone", attempting to communicate: Let's get off this subject, just play the record.

But Gloria kept persevering and eventually she was getting quite agitated because Ian wouldn't tell her. Then Ian finally said: "Gloria, I'm sorry, but you give me...I'm desperately searching for every word in my vocabulary to avoid using the words female masturbation live on BBC radio this time of the day". Gloria got mad and cried, "What! Get out of the studio!". She threw Ian out of the studio in spite of the fact that he was pressed into it.

1. "This Is Not Love"
2. "Occasional Demons"
3. "Roll Yer Own"
4. "Rocks On The Road"
5. "Sparrow On The Schoolyard Wall"
6. "Thinking Round Corners"
7. "Still Loving You Tonight"
8. "Doctor To My Disease"
9. "Like A Tall Thin Girl"
10. "White Innocence"
11. "Sleeping With The Dog"
12. "Gold-Tipped Boots, Black Jacket And Tie"
13. "When Jesus Came To Play"

In September 2006, a remastered edition of the album was released with the following additional tracks:

• Night in the Wilderness
  • B-side to many of the Catfish Rising-era singles.
• Jump Start (live)
  • Recorded at The Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA on November 25, 1987.
  • Appears as the b-side to several UK single releases of "This Is Not Love."