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Van Morrison
Brown Eyed Girl
Ro Ro Rosey
It s All Right
T.B. Sheets
Who Drove the Red Sports Car
Beside You
I Love You (The Smile You Smile) [Mono][#][Version]
There s a striking tension at work in these 18 tracks, which represent Van Morrison s first solo recordings. Conducted in New York in 1967 when the 21-year-old Morrison was formulating the spectral notions that took shape .
more »on the classic Astral Weeks, these sessions were helmed by hit-minded producer Bert Berns. Berns, who d written and produced a successful single ( Here Comes the Night ) for Morrison s old band, Them, came up with another worthy radio-friendly number with Brown Eyed Girl. That oldies staple is an anomaly here, however. More representative is the diseased nine-minute-plus vamp T.B. Sheets and a couple of songs that turned up in more fluid form on Astral Weeks Beside You and Madame George. The latter two in nascent form are nearer to Morrison s gritty R&B roots than the dreamy,
Reviewed on 9/22/2009.
Such excellent music, and some of Crosby, Stills & Nash s tightest harmonies. It s an invitation to immerse yourself in some of the finest gifts from the sixties.
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Miguel Gonzalez
| 08/03/2009 (3 out of 5 stars) Although I was only about 7 years old when this album came out, it has been a permanent fixture in my life - from radio to friends to open mic nights, etc. These songs are everywhere (if you re a certain age). I tried for years - thru Punk and Post-Punk and Industrial and World and Hip Hop - to deny the squishy singer-songwriter rock vein that runs so deeply in my soul.