Van Morrison

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.

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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.

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...

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 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...

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 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 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 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