Van Morrison

Guess what Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Steely Dan, the Cult, the Pixies, Green Day, Mötley Crüe, Sonic Youth, Brian Wilson, Public Enemy, Van Morrison and Liz Phair share in common?

The Irish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Van Morrison is one of popular music's great contradictions, as he proved last night during a 90-minute set at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. The performance was, on several levels, bewildering.

Few singer/songwriters have had a greater impact on music than Van Morrison. Morrison has written some of the most important songs and albums of the 20th century. Ever the recluse, Morrison gives few interviews and rarely interacts with audiences at concerts.

These days, an artist who released an album as poorly received as "Astral Weeks" was upon its debut in 1968 would find himself dropped in no time.

The pop culture cup runneth over with headlines: The Good • In our age of downloading singles, a bold concert trend could be on the rock 'n' roll rise: entire albums being performed live in concert by the original artists. If you're willing to travel, you could catch Van Morrison performing...

TORONTO - With roughly three dozen studio albums under his belt, it took more than four decades for Van Morrison to return to one of his and rock music's landmarks.

“Astral Weeks,” a 1968 album that produced not a single hit but remains one of the most revered works of the rock era, was the main course at Van Morrison’s sold-out concert Tuesday at the Chicago Theatre.

With a sporadic summer tour revisiting his 1968 classic "Astral Weeks"in the books, Van Morrison [ tickets ] has announced a few additional "Astral Weeks" dates for this fall, along with some regular concert dates. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer will kick off the jaunt with a Sept. 25 perfor...

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By Phil Gallo / LiveDaily Contributor Rather than taking a victory lap to celebrate his reclamation of his earliest masterpiece, "Astral Weeks," Van Morrison [ tickets ] is digging deeper into the 40-year-old album's maze of openings, lush walkways and ...

The third plausible reason is that the occasion — a chance to see a live performance of Morrison's most cherished record, 1968's "Astral Weeks" — wasn't quite the draw that promoters had hoped. The album is generally regarded by critics as one of ...

In UC Berkeley show, the singer leads band and fans through improvised performance of his most acclaimed album.

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 FL James Otto’s “Into the Mystic,” while pretty faithful to Van Morrison’s, succeeds because of the sheer commitment in Otto’s blue-eye-soul vocal. Michelle Branch doing Joni Mitchell’s “A Case of You?” A recipe for disaster? Nope. ...

By Joe P. Wynton Marsalis is Live at Lincoln Center; the Arcade Fire, Van Morrison and The Raconteurs encore on Austin City Limits; and Anna Netrebko portrays Lucia di Lammermoor at the Met. It’s another great month of music programming on NPT.

I’m not sure whether Van Morrison realized the effects Astral Weeks would have, proving that following one’s muse is not always a bad thing.  The album produced no radio hits to rival Morrison’s best known songs, such as “Brown Eyed Girl,” “Domino,” “Wild Night” and “Moondance.” And it has...

Edge got to pick the second song - Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl. He quipped that when he first heard of Van Morrison, he thought Van was Dutch thanks to the name. He described Van as where Irish rock and roll began, and Brown Eyed Girl as one of the great rock and roll songs of all time. Adam got to c...

The best live album I've ever heard.  Singer and band confront audience and dominates it.  There's no loud, distorted rock guitars.  Just horns and strings that better Van's classic arrangements, and a band that seems to weave itself around the singer - and with no overdubs!  A friggin' exc...

Saint Dominic's Preview is another great album by Van the Man.  To me, it sounds more patchy by far than Tupelo Honey, which follows more smoothly and with more purpose.  Saint Dominic's Preview is more like a compilation from a variety of sessions to me, and as such has a hit or miss quality to...

By Alex Young And that’s even without mentioning Van Morrison. Hot off his weekend stint at Madison Square Garden, the legendary musician took to Fallon for another revisit of Astral Weeks, this in the form of a performance of “Sweet Thing”. Draped in all black and backed by a fairly large musical accomp...

By Shannon She has performed and recorded with Rod Stewart, Van Morrison, Ryan Adams, Bob Dylan, Asleep at the Wheel, Garrison Keillor, Marcia Ball, Jorma Kaukonen, Leon Redbone, BeauSoleil, Daniel Lanois, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, The Dixie Chicks and Texas Telecaster mast...

By Jason Chervokas Where the sound and characters of Astral Weeks came from has been an obsession among Morrisonologists for years. I won’t recap the details, instead I’ll refer you to Clinton Heylin’s Morrison bio Can You Feel the Silence? for some oral history, and Lester Bangs’ famous Astral Weeks ess...

By brandy Tulsa singer/songwriter/musician J.J. Cale releases his 15th album, “Roll On,” today. The album features 12 tracks, all written by the Grammy winner. Van Morrison, “Astral Weeks Live At the Hollywood Bowl.” Joe Bonamassa, “The Ballad of John Henry.”

By Mike Perciaccante Forty years after the release of his seminal work, Astral Weeks (Warner Brothers, 1968), Van Morrison decided that the time was right to play the entire album live. To recreate the record acknowledged by many critics as one of the best ...

By Rajith Savanadasa Perhaps this burdened generation will find some of the hope they are desperately seeking in this reconstruction of a classic record.

By Neal Justin NBC has just announced Fallon’s initial lineup - and it’s got a striking problem. The first big guests on premiere night (March 2): Robert De Niro and Van Morrison, two of the most stonefaced, difficult guests one could imagine. Granted, Morrison probably will just sing - a number from his l...

By Devorah Klein It’s Friday, so that means lots of tickets go on sale today: Van Morrison, who had already announced two shows at Madison Square Garden on February 27 and 28, has added two shows at The Beacon Theater on March 3 and 4. At all of these shows he will be playing is album Astral Weeks. Tickets [...]

We also talk shop about some of this week’s biggest releases: Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl, the iconic 1968 LP that Rolling Stone says takes on a more bluesy identity when it was performed in its entirety in 2008. Plus, a look at Dan Auerbach’s Keep It Hid, the first...

Also out today: Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl. Rock Daily was there when Morrison revived his classic eight-song 1968 LP in California last November, and on record David Fricke judges the performance at three and a half stars. Morrison accentuates the blues in th...

By Francis.Petruziello They twisted John Mellencamp’s classic “Authority Song” with the lightning-fast breaks and snazzy brass backing the chord structures that weren’t tweaked with giving us something quintessentially honorable to the song’s credibility. They elevated Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl...

By aksman Van Morrison - Astral Weeks “"…it obsoletes the original in almost every way…When you hear the new reissue, even if you've heard the original 100 times since it first came out, which would easily be me, you will almost jump out of your seat when you hear these familiar elements move from the...

By tonemarrowreviews One thing is for sure, the new, happy Springsteen is nowhere near as fun as the angry, fiery Springsteen that has been a prophet of rock’n'roll for more than three decades. The Boss’ ’70s work was a Van Morrison-inspired blend of rock, R&B, and a little funk in which he sang what were basi...

15. Prince – “Batdance” Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty With Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” still topping the iTunes singles chart and plenty of reason to party tonight, now seems the perfect time to reveal the readers’ list of best “dance” songs. Even though the winner doesn’t exactly have u...

By Music News Net The concerts marked the first time Mr. Morrison ever performed "Astral Weeks" in one complete concert set. Joining him was an orchestral string section and a band composed of world-class musicians, some of whom played with Van on the original "Astral Weeks" sessions 40 years ago. Tracks on...

By Daniel Kreps After performing on behalf of Barack Obama on the campaign trail, Jay-Z will play a concert on the eve of the inauguration in Washington, D.C. on January 19th. Jigga will backed by a live band when he performs at D.C.’s Warner Theatre. Tickets for the Live Nation event go on sale January 9th. Damian...

Tracks include: "Astral Weeks/I Believe I've Transcended""Beside You""Sweet Thing""Slim Slow Slider/I Start Breaking Down""The Way That Young Lovers Do""Ballerina""Cyprus Avenue/You Came Walking Down""Madame George"

This one hardly needs a review, does it? But it was my first ever compact disc, and a bit of a turning point for me, towards less intense rock. Lots of nice songs here, such as “Brown Eyed Girl”, “Sweet  Thing”, "Moondance", “Warm Love”, “Wild Night”, “Full Force Gale”, “Dweller on the Thresh...

By Another World Terri Hooley, purveyor of the Good Vibrations record shop in Belfast, and the man who released The Undertones’ “Teenage Kicks” talks about the evolution of the music scene in the city.  Even as his contemporaries abandoned Northern Ireland for less bombs and more culture, Terri stuck...

By Rob Here’s a clip featuring King of Rock ‘n’ Soul Solomon Burke with his 1964 smash hit “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love”, a soul favourite straight out of the gospel tradition. It was released as a single that year and has since become a soul, and rock, standard.

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By Bobzilla Wavelength Saint Dominic’s Preview Caravan Heavy Connection Here Comes the Night Summertime in England Brown-Eyed Girl Gloria Second set / Astral Weeks complete: Beside You Slim Slow Slider Sweet Thing The Way Young Lovers Do Cyprus Avenue Ballerina Madame George

For anyone who wasn't at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday night, there'd be little chance of explaining how Van Morrison's repetition of one seemingly innocuous sentence

By Joshua Pressman Van Morrison Performing Astral Weeks @ Hollywood Bowl Coheed and Cambria @ The Avalon Jeans Team, Starfucker @ Spaceland Ellis Paul @ McCabe’s Letters to Cleo @ The Roxy Castaneda EP Release @ On The Rox Hawthorne Heights @ The Porch at House of Blues Sunset

By AMG Staff For the first time, Van Morrison will play Astral Weeks in its entirety at a two-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday, November 7 and Saturday, November 8. Bassist Richard Davis and guitarist Jay Berliner, who played on the album, will accompany Morrison. Check out the LA Times‘ Q&am...

By blackbeauty@dopefiend.co.uk P l a y l i s t : Esse.B - Bungalow Remix; Outkast - Spottieottiedopalicious; Van Morrison - And It Stoned Me; Bill Bailey - Stand Up; Dr Dre - Blunt Time; The Flaming Lips - Race For The Prize; Chris Rock - Stand Up; Esse.B - Untitled; Cowboy Bebop - Mushroom Hunting; Sunshine Anderson - Heard It Al...

By Rob In doing so, it also attempts to deliver an eclectic mix of acoustic, soul, jazz, blues and pop singer/songwriter classics, whether it’s classics including Wild Is The Wind by David Bowie, Bob Dylan’s Baby, Stop Crying or Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water, to more rece...

By address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Stefan) VAN MORRISON Never mind that Van Morrison is one of the most indelible songwriters of the 20th century--take each album on its own terms. On 1968's seminal Astral Weeks, a twentysomething Van Morrison can be found belting his gospelly, bluesy vocals in just as fine a form as he would be 20 ye...

By David Fricke It didn’t matter. His new album, Keep It Simple, is a strong return to the form, if not the poetry, of his early and mid-Seventies albums like Tupelo Honey, and it was a pleasure to hear him in vintage style in a small room. “Don’t go to night clubs much anymore,” he growled in one number, making a...

By Dave Alper 11. Moondance 12. Wild Night 15.Precious Time 16. Got to Help Me (Sonny Boy Williamson) Encore 18. Gloria 19. Brown Eyed Girl A lifelong avid concert goer, my very first job was hawking programs at the Schaeffer Music Festival in Central Park. It has been one long encore ever since.

By Jordan Upon hearing the words "Tupelo Honey," most people may think of a Van Morrison song. After all, it was ol' Van who made tupelo honey stick to the airwaves in the form of a hit song. Van Morrison aside, real tupelo honey has its own set of loyal fans. Sure, they might not buy CDs, stand in line waitin...

By Triniman 3) Wavelength 4) All Work and No Play 5) Stranded 6) Whinin' Boy Moan/Symphony Sid 7) Domino 8) Little Village 9) They Sold Me Out 10) Cleaning Windows 11) In the Midnight 12) Baby Please Don't Go 13) Days Like This 14) Moondance 15) St. James Infirmary 17) Help Me 18) Brown Eyed Girl 19) Gloria