Van Morrison - I have a stack of LP's, CD's and downloads from Van the Man. He is in his 5th decade of performing - I am sold on the man. I have seen him lots of times with all sorts of people - Chieftains, Georgie Fame,Ray Charles etc. The Ray Charles concert was very strange because they never appeared on the same stage at the same time - there seemed to be two separate sets of fans as well who were not really interested in the other guys' music.
His repertoire of songs is glorious - there are so many sublime songs.
He is a perfectionist on stage and I have seen him really grumpy with his band - but so what - his voice is great. Anyway, you can probably tell that I'm a fan - so rather than continue to gush I'll just post some of my favourite tracks.
With Them in the early days
Astral Weeks has often been placed on the most authoritative lists of best albums of all time. In the 1995 MOJO list of 100 Best Albums, it was listed as number two and was number nineteen on the Rolling Stone magazine's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003.
I saw this - Van Morrison and Chieftains
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I love Van...I've got a good number of his titles in my collection and I come back to him often. Yeah he's a bit cranky sometimes but he's the Man and he's allowed to be if he wants to.
I was a bit annoyed when Rod Stewart got a hit with "Have I Told You Lately" while Morrison's sublime version never to the play it should.
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