Moving On Skiffle Van Morrison
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Album-Release:
2023
HRA-Release:
10.03.2023
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- 1 Freight Train 03:25
- 2 Careless Love 05:39
- 3 Sail Away Ladies 03:17
- 4 Streamline Train 04:02
- 5 Take This Hammer 04:38
- 6 No Other Baby 04:30
- 7 Gypsy Davy 04:19
- 8 This Loving Light Of Mine 05:09
- 9 In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down 04:24
- 10 Yonder Comes A Sucker 03:12
- 11 Travelin’ Blues 03:41
- 12 Gov Don't Allow 04:09
- 13 Come On In 03:38
- 14 Streamlined Cannonball 03:14
- 15 Greenback Dollar 03:42
- 16 Oh Lonesome Me 03:25
- 17 I Wish I Was An Apple On A Tree 03:13
- 18 I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry 03:04
- 19 I’m Movin’ On 02:56
- 20 Cold Cold Heart 03:26
- 21 Worried Man Blues 04:37
- 22 Cotton Fields 03:05
- 23 Green Rocky Road 08:57
Info for Moving On Skiffle
Es dürfte nicht überraschen, dass Van Morrison ein vom Skiffle inspiriertes Album aufgenommen hat. Van Morrisons Liebe zum Skiffle reicht bis in seine Kindheit zurück. Er verkehrte in dem berühmten Belfaster Plattenladen Atlantic Records, wo er Folk, Blues und Jazz des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts von Leuten wie Lead Belly und Jelly Roll Morton hörte. Als er dann Lonnie Donegans Version von "Rock Island Line" hörte, verstand er intuitiv, welche Musik er schaffen wollte. Schon bald spielte Van Morrison mit einer Skiffle-Band in der Schule.
Auf Moving On Skiffle nimmt er einen hausgemachten Stil auf, der Mitte der 1950er Jahre in Großbritannien explosionsartig aufkam, und verleiht ihm ein Maß an Raffinesse und Soulfulness, das er beim ersten Mal nicht immer besaß. Das Album mit 23 Titeln geht zum Kern der Musik, die Van Morrison seit seinem sechsten Lebensjahr in den verrauchten Räumen von Atlantic Records in Belfast erlebt hat. Es enthält auch Songs, die mit ihren Botschaften über die Bedeutung von Freiheit und einem Leben nach eigenen Vorstellungen seine Lebensphilosophie unterstreichen.
Zum größten Teil spielt Van Morrison diese zeitlosen Songs ohne Umschweife. Einige von ihnen wurden von ihm selbst arrangiert, während ausgewählte andere seine charakteristischen lyrischen Wendungen aufweisen. Der stets rebellische Morrison hat den Titel von "Mama Don't Allow", der in den späten 1920er Jahren sowohl von der Memphis Jug Band als auch von dem Chicagoer Blueser Tampa Red aufgenommen wurde, in "Gov Don't Allow" geändert, eine Anspielung auf seinen Kampf gegen die zunehmende Einmischung der Regierung in unser tägliches Leben. Und der Gospel-Standard "This Little Light of Mine", eine Schlüsselhymne der Bürgerrechtsbewegung im Amerika der 60er Jahre, wird in das ausgelassene, beschwingte "This Loving Light of Mine" verwandelt.
Das Eröffnungsstück "Freight Train" ist ein unmittelbarer Höhepunkt, ein Song, der ursprünglich von Elizabeth Cotten geschrieben und dann sowohl von Peggy Seeger als auch von Chas McDevitt aufgenommen wurde. Van Morrison hat ihn in einem ausgefeilten Jazz-Arrangement mit ausgelassener Orgel, Close-Harmony-Gesang und einigen neuen Texten interpretiert. An anderer Stelle erhält "Wish I Was An Apple On A True" eine wunderbare Wärme, die durch ein flottes Waschbrett und satte Gesangsharmonien ergänzt wird. Gypsy Davey" bleibt zeitlos, während Van Morrisons kraftvolle Stimme und sein leidenschaftliches Saxophon die bluesige Gitarre in "Greenback Dollar" ergänzen. Das Album schließt mit "Green Rocky Road", einem klagenden Folk-Juwel und einer Ode an das Leben eines Troubadours, das durch Fred Neil und Dave Van Ronk berühmt wurde und im Film "Inside Llewyn Davis" zu hören war.
Zu den wichtigsten Mitwirkenden auf dem Album gehören Dave Keary (Gitarre), Pete Hurley (Bass), Colin Griffin (Schlagzeug) und Sticky Wicket (Waschbrett). Der aktuelle britische Folk-Liebling Seth Lakeman steuert bei fünf Liedern die Geige bei.
Van Morrison
Van Morrison
One of music’s true originals Van Morrison’s unique and inspirational musical legacy is rooted in postwar Belfast.
Born in 1945 Van heard his Shipyard worker father’s collection of blues, country and gospel early in life.
Feeding off musical greats such as Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson and Leadbelly he was a travelling musician at 13 and singing, playing guitar and sax, in several bands, before forming Them in 1964.
Making their name at Belfast’s Maritime Club Them soon established Van as a major force in the British R&B scene. Morrison’s matchless vocal and songwriting talents produced instant classics such as the much covered ‘Gloria’ and ‘Here Comes The Night’.
Those talents found full astonishing range in Van’s solo career.
After working with Them’s New York producer Bert Berns on beautiful Top 40 pop hit ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ (1967), Morrison moved to another realm.
Recorded over 3 days with legendary jazz musicians Astral Weeks (1968) is a still singular album combining street poetry, jazz improvisation, Celtic invocation and Afro Celtic Blues wailing.
Morrison would weave these and myriad other influences into the albums that followed in quick succession.
Reflecting on new life in America on the joyous Sinatra soul of Moondance (1970) and the country inflected Tupelo Honey (1971) he summoned old spiritual and ancestral life in the epic St Dominic’s Preview (1972) closer track Listen To The Lion.
Double live album Too Late To Stop Now (1973) highlighted Morrison’s superlative performing and bandleader skills. Mapping out a richly varied musical course throughout the 70s he shone among an all-star cast including Bob Dylan and Muddy Waters on The Band’s Last Waltz.
Indeed, borne of his Irish Showband instincts, the magic of the live performance has been a consistent feature of Morrison’s career.
Settling back into life in the UK in 1980 he released Common One an album centring on Summertime In England an extraordinary invocation of literary, sensual and spiritual pleasure the song would often become a thrilling improvised centrepiece to his live shows.
Steering his own course throughout the 80s on albums such as No Guru, No Method, No Teacher he claimed Celtic roots with The Chieftains on Irish Heartbeat. Teaming with Georgie Fame brought new impetus to his live show while Avalon Sunset saw him back in the album and single charts by the decades end.
Van Morrison continued to advance on his status as a game- changing artist through the 90s and into the 21st century.
Awards and accolades - a Brit, an OBE, an Ivor Novello, 6 Grammys, honourary doctorates from Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Ulster, entry into The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame and the French Ordres Des Artes Et Des Lettres - attested to the international reach of Van’s musical art.
Yet there was never any suggestion that Morrison, one of the most prolific recording artists and hardest working live performers of his era, would ever rest on his laurels.
Collaborations with, among others, John Lee Hooker, Ray Charles, Lonnie Donegan, Mose Allison and Tom Jones confirmed the breadth of his musical reach.
Morrison’s visionary songwriting and mastery of many genres continued to shine on albums celebrating and re-exploring his blues, jazz, skiffle and country roots.
The influence of the musical journey that began back in Post War Belfast stretches across the generations, and Morrison’s questing hunger insures that the journey itself continues.
Constantly reshaping his musical history in live performance, Morrison reclaimed Astral Weeks on 2009’s album Live At The Hollywood Bowl.
The subtitle of Van Morrison's latest album, Born to Sing: No Plan B, indicates the power that music still holds for this living legend. "No Plan B means this is not a rehearsal," says Morrison. "That’s the main thing—it’s not a hobby, it’s real, happening now, in real time."
With one of the most revered catalogues in music history and his unparalleled talents as composer, singer and performer Morrison’s past achievements loom large. But, as throughout his extraordinary career, how that past informs his future achievements and still stirs excitement and keen anticipation.
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