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Outstanding
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Advantages:
What a voice ! That's MOrrison's voice and the music just follow the voice
Disadvantages:
To short .
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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Born in Belfast (Northern Ireland), Van Morrison was steeped in the sounds of American folk & blues from his youth. By age 11 he had mastered guitar, sax, and harmonica and began perfoprming with skiffle bands in local dance halls.
In the swinging '60's he joined the Monarchs and toured U.S air bases in West Germany. Beginning to improve himself versus different public and american buddies.
Then he returned to Belfast, he formed Them, one of the best British rock bands of all time. The group scored huge hits like "Don't Start Crying Now", "Baby Please Don't Go" and "Here Comes The Night" and the wonderful international hit "Gloria" so many times covered by main artists as The Doors, Patti Smith, U2 but according to me never as well as Van himself...
After Them disbanded, Van Morrison rebegan a solo carreer. And one of the best album he recorded is "ASTRAL WEEK" less than 2 days after arrival in NYC.
Only 8 songs but you can feel all the soul of his colored voice. His work between Blues/Jazz/Folk is superb, thereis a continuity all along the album but songs like "Astral Weeks", "Cyprus Avenue" or the poignant and so lovely story-in-a-song "Madame George" 9:25 totally pure where voice and music are so close...
Year by year this album has become a timeless classic so let the music play for this magnific album...
If you are interesting in Van Morrison's album I can advice : "Avalon Sunset" and "Enlightenment"...
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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...
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Never mind that Van Morrison is one of the most indelible songwriters of the 20th
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century--take each album on its own terms. On 1968's seminalAstral Weeks, a twentysomething Van Morrison can be found belting his gospelly, bluesy vocals in just as fine ...
ASTRAL WEEKS
Personnel includes: Van Morrison (vocals, acoustic guitar); Larry Fallon (arranger); Jay
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Berliner (guitar); John Payne (flute, soprano saxophone); Warren Smith, Jr. (vibraphone, percussion); Richard Davis (bass); Connie Kay (drums). Recorded in New Yor...
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