The 1970s gave us some of the greatest blues-rock music ever recorded, but not every masterpiece got the attention it ...
Northern Irish singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Van Morrison turns 73 today, best known for his gruff, soulful vocals and his 1967 smash hit single and forever karaoke jam, “Brown Eyed Girl ...
Acclaimed session musician Gary Mallaber recalled how Van Morrison’s trust in his musicians helped make his breakthrough 1970 album Moondance such a success. The LP helped cement Morrison’s reputation ...
"It's just impressions, basically, things people were saying," Morrison says. "Songs come from strange sources." But when Morrison approached his record label with the album, they almost shelved it.
Its song lyrics are dotted with references to the artist's native Ireland. But on the back cover of Van Morrison's much-cherished album "Astral Weeks," there is an unexplained bit of verse that links ...
It would be very, very easy to go overboard when discussing Van Morrison’s new album, Remembering Now. The 79-year-old Northern Irishman’s latest release, his first album of original songs since the ...