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Continue reading “Van Morrison’s 50 Greatest Songs Countdown – #3 And it stoned me”
“I could hear the radio like it was in the same room. I don’t know how to explain it … How can you hear someone’s radio from a mile away, as if it was playing in your own house? So I had to put that into the song – it was a must.”
– Van Morrison
Continue reading “Van Morrison’s 50 Greatest Songs Countdown – #5 Caravan”
In Moondance, Morrison bursts forth in warm Technicolor. The Van Morrison that the public would come to know and recognize over the decades—Van the Man, the Belfast Cowboy, etc—essentially makes his first appearance on Moondance.
~Erik HageThis is Van Morrison’s 6th Symphony; like Beethoven’s equivalent, it’s fixated on the power of nature, but rather than merely sitting in awe, it finds spirituality and redemption in the most basic of things. The pinnacle of Van The Man’s career, and maybe, of non-American soul in general.
~Nick Butler
And It Stoned Me:
And It Stoned Me (live @ Montreux 1980):
Continue reading “February 28: Van Morrison released the album Moondance in 1970”
1. Moondance
2. Glad Tidings
3. Crazy Love
4. Come Running
5. The Way Young Lovers Do
6. Everyone
7. Brown Eyed Girl
8. And It Stoned Me
9. These Dreams Of You
10. Caravan
11. Cyprus Avenue
12. Into The Mystic
Rock Steady with Dave Fanning and Nicky Horne. Music and interview with Van Morrison and Mose Allison.
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Continue reading “Van Morrison & Mose Allison at St. George’s Hall Bristol, England (1990) – Video”