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Matt Coughlin Band preparing for live album

02 Dec 2009 15:33:59 PST

They have a great cover tune medley that includes “Moondance” by Van Morrison and a version of “Thriller” that is quite different from Michael Jackson's ...

Original story at Tacoma Weekly .

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Ian Shaw: From Free Jazz to Noel Coward

30 Nov 2009 23:10:10 PST

One of my first collaborators was a guy called John Miller, a good, swinging piano player who used to play with Van Morrison and was really into Frank Zappa ... and more »

Original story at All About Jazz .

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The Story of Summer

28 Nov 2009 19:32:03 PST

Summer. For the Magee-Foley Wedding 4/11/09 Music Rise by Eddie Vedder Brown-Eyed Girl by Van Morrison Created with Pinnacle Studio 11 ... Photo ... vimeo.com

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Singer brings 'Cali-soul' to Vail

17 Nov 2009 11:58:10 PST

“Kind of this Van Morrison, 'Astral Weeks' feel.” Stollenwerck attended the University of Colorado in Boulder for two years before heading west to ...

Original story at Vail Daily News .

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Mose Allison, pianist and composer, still shoots from the hip at 82

13 Nov 2009 00:18:54 PST

While artists such as Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello, Van Morrison, the Clash and the Who have memorably covered his tunes, Allison is often the most ... and more »

Original story at Seattle Times .

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Green Neighbors: Sweetness and Light, Evoking the Blues

12 Nov 2009 10:16:04 PST

Those of us who came of age at a certain time think of Van Morrison and John Lee Hooker when we hear the tree’s name: tupelo. It’s an Algonquian word, like the name of the Susquehannock (“muddy river”) people, who lived along the river I grew up on, the Susquehanna.

Original story at The Berkeley Daily Planet .

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Van Morrison news and blogs - December 10, 2009

10 Dec 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Van Morrison news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Tom Petty finally releases a worthy live album, and it’s been worth the wait -- from New Haven Register
• onmilwaukee.com Recommends: Dec. 3, 2009 -- from OnMilwaukee.com
• Corinne Bailey Rae: 'The Sea'' -- from Jazz-Quad
• Revan's video -- from Google Videos - -site:youtube.com "Van Morrison" "Astral Weeks" OR "Brown Eyed Girl" OR Moondance OR "Have I Told You Lately" OR "Into the Mystic" OR jazz OR "Into the Music" OR "Tupelo Honey" OR "Wild Night" OR "Veedon Fleece" OR "It's Too Late to Stop Now" OR blues OR "Listen to the Lion" OR "Inarticulate Speech of the Heart" OR "Hollywood Bowl" OR "Keep It Simple" OR "Days Like This" OR Belfast OR Rogan OR soul OR Berns OR Wavelength OR "A Sense of Wonder" OR Heylin OR "Irish Heartbeat" OR Gloria OR "Common One" OR "Blowin Your Mind" OR "The Healing Game" OR "Georgie Fame" OR "His Band and the Street Choir" OR Skiffle
• San Antonio Band -- from Google Videos - -site:youtube.com "Van Morrison" "Astral Weeks" OR "Brown Eyed Girl" OR Moondance OR "Have I Told You Lately" OR "Into the Mystic" OR jazz OR "Into the Music" OR "Tupelo Honey" OR "Wild Night" OR "Veedon Fleece" OR "It's Too Late to Stop Now" OR blues OR "Listen to the Lion" OR "Inarticulate Speech of the Heart" OR "Hollywood Bowl" OR "Keep It Simple" OR "Days Like This" OR Belfast OR Rogan OR soul OR Berns OR Wavelength OR "A Sense of Wonder" OR Heylin OR "Irish Heartbeat" OR Gloria OR "Common One" OR "Blowin Your Mind" OR "The Healing Game" OR "Georgie Fame" OR "His Band and the Street Choir" OR Skiffle
• The Freewheelin' Ben Sidran -- from Wisconsin State Journal
• Musical resurrections: Veteran artists recreating old albums in concert. -- from Canada.com
• Out & About -- from Modesto Bee
• The insider's guide to eating out in Belfast -- from First Post
• Soundcheck Smackdown: Full-Album Concerts -- from WNYC

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From here to Hanoi

08 Nov 2009 11:29:46 PST

With that voice he should be singing Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen and Leonard Cohen. He did the very best version of Nat King Cole's Nature Boy that I ... and more »

Original story at Daily Mirror .

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Concert review: Van Morrison at the Meyerhoff

28 Oct 2009 07:06:32 PDT

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.

Original story at Baltimore Sun .

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Live Review: Van Morrison in T.O.

01 Oct 2009 03:44:21 PDT

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.

Original story at Jam! Showbiz .

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Live Review: Van Morrison in Los Angeles

08 May 2009 10:28:34 PDT

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 ...

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NPT Music Monthly April 2009

31 Mar 2009 10:54:21 PDT

Written 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.

Original story at npt08 (WordPress) .

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lanky_caravan reviews It's Too Late to Stop Now by Van Morrison

10 Mar 2009 16:21:13 PDT

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...

Original story at Rate Your Music .

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Astral Weeks Live: Back to Caledonia

25 Feb 2009 13:10:00 PST

Written 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...

Original story at newcritics .

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Van Morrison | Astral Weeks Live At The Hollywood Bowl

23 Feb 2009 23:05:17 PST

Written 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 ...

Original story at All About Jazz .

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New Music Report: Van Morrison, Dan Auerbach, Plus Top Stories

11 Feb 2009 14:05:53 PST

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...

Original story at Rolling Stone .

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New Reviews: Lily Allen, Van Morrison, Lonely Island, Dan Auerbach

10 Feb 2009 15:31:10 PST

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...

Original story at Rolling Stone .

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Music Review: Fame, Fortune And Fornication, Reel Big Fish

09 Feb 2009 08:54:50 PST

Written 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...

Original story at Cleveland Leader .

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Opinion: Van Morrison - Astral Weeks [WB/Rhino 180g LP; Mastered by Kevin Gray] Ripped in 24-bit/96kHz

31 Jan 2009 11:54:00 PST

Written 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...

Original story at AvaxHome .

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REVIEW: Bruce Springsteen: "Working on a Dream"

26 Jan 2009 18:20:43 PST

Written 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...

Original story at MOG .

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VAN MORRISON to Release LA Astral Weeks Concerts & Schedules NYC Gigs

07 Jan 2009 11:46:00 PST

Written 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...

Original story at MOG .

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Podcast: Ep. 41: Terri Hooley's Good Vibrations

26 Dec 2008 07:53:35 PST

Written 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...

Original story at anotherworldradio.com .

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Opinion: Tonight In Rock: The Who, Van Morrison, Coheed And Cambria, The Dodos

08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PST

Written 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

Original story at LAist .

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Podcast: BB's Bungalow 14

30 Oct 2008 01:20:00 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at Dopefiend.co.uk .

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Concert Review: Van Morrison at the Theater at Madison Square Garden - Still Into The Mystique

30 Apr 2007 15:47:20 PDT

Written 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.

Original story at Blogcritics .

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Concert Review - Van Morrison, March 1, 2007

14 Mar 2007 06:52:20 PDT

Written 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

Original story at Blogcritics .

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