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Van Morrison - Van Morrison Meets Bob Dylan & John Lee Hooker (1992)

Van Morrison - Van Morrison Meets Bob Dylan & John Lee Hooker (1992)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 338 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 153 MB
1:07:02 | Folk Rock, Blues Rock | Unofficial Release | Label: Living Legend Records

Review from Ron Zant: This boot seems to be a "best of boot worlds", with the different guests, styles and times. (And according to another Van mailing list member, this bootleg appears to contain 9 songs used in the BBC documentary One Irish Rover, and then some more from other sources).

Van Morrison - What's Wrong With This Picture? (2003)  Music

Posted by Designol at March 20, 2024
Van Morrison - What's Wrong With This Picture? (2003)

Van Morrison - What's Wrong With This Picture? (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 419 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 146 Mb | Scans ~ 92 Mb
Label: Blue Note Records | # 7243 5 93651 2 1 | Time: 01:03:43
Jazz-Blues, Vocal Jazz, Blues, Blues-Rock, Celtic, Blue-Eyed Soul

While 2002's Down the Road was the best Van Morrison release in ages – with its autobiographical allusions, cultural critiques, and new band – it could not have prepared listeners for the jolt of this, his Blue Note Records debut What's Wrong With This Picture? While the album is hardly a straight jazz record, it does take the territory he explored on Down the Road another step further into the classic pop music of the 20th century filtered through his own Celtic swing, R&B, vocal jazz, and blue-eyed soul. The title track that opens the album is as close to an anthem as Morrison's ever written; he states with an easy, swinging, jazzy soul groove that he is not the same person he once was and wonders why that was so difficult for others to accept. There is no bitterness or bite in his assertions. If anything, the question is asked with warm humor and amusement as if it is indeed the listener's hangup if he/she can't accept Morrison "living in the present time." He asks, "Why don't we take it down and forget about it/'Cause that ain't me at all," as the song whispers to a close.

Van Morrison - The Healing Game (1997) Expanded Remastered 2008  Music

Posted by Designol at March 14, 2024
Van Morrison - The Healing Game (1997) Expanded Remastered 2008

Van Morrison - The Healing Game (1997) Expanded Remastered 2008
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 339 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 133 Mb | Scans ~ 84 Mb
Label: Exile Productions Ltd., Polydor | # 5308757 | Time: 00:58:24
Singer/Songwriter, Pop/Rock, Folk-Rock, Blues, Blue-Eyed Soul

Van Morrison never stopped recording during the 1990s, but for a little while it seemed as if he was disconnected from his muse. It wasn't so much his series of jazz cover albums – he'd return to this vein often in subsequent decades – but his songwriting that showed signs bitterness, particularly on 1995's Days Like This, where he seemed dismissive of the very notion of being a songwriter. In that light, it's hard not to see 1997's The Healing Game as a rejuvenation. Indeed, the album's very title suggests that Morrison is in the process of mending fences and reconnecting with a sense of joy, a process that began during his deep dive into Mose Allison and other bluesy jazz artists in the mid-'90s. Morrison retains that sense of swing on The Healing Game – he also retains keyboardist Georgie Fame, who would become a fixture on Morrison's albums over the next two decades – and it invigorates a set of songs that aren't necessarily all that different from what he's been writing as of late; he's still specializing in ballads, blues, and folk-rock colored by R&B.

Van Morrison - Back On Top (1999) Expanded Remastered Reissue 2008  Music

Posted by Designol at March 15, 2024
Van Morrison - Back On Top (1999) Expanded Remastered Reissue 2008

Van Morrison - Back On Top (1999) Expanded Remastered Reissue 2008
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 411 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 143 Mb | Scans ~ 179 Mb
Label: Exile, Polydor | # 5305453 | Time: 01:02:32
Genre: Blues, Blues-Rock, Rhythm & Blues, Blue-Eyed Soul

Back on Top is the twenty-seventh studio album by Northern Irish singer/songwriter Van Morrison. It was released in 1999 by Point Blank. This album marks a slight return to the forms of music he is most known for: blues and R&B. Upon the album's release, Rolling Stone reviewed it as "one Monet and nine Norman Rockwells", the "Monet" being "When the Leaves Come Falling Down" which it called a masterpiece. The 29 January 2008 reissued and remastered version of the album contains two bonus tracks: an alternative take of "Philosopher's Stone" and a new arrangement of Fats Domino's song, "Valley of Tears".

Van Morrison - The Genuine Philosopher's Stone (2000)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Nov. 4, 2022
Van Morrison - The Genuine Philosopher's Stone (2000)

Van Morrison - The Genuine Philosopher's Stone (2000)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.2 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 529 MB
3:51:07 | Rock, Blues Rock, Folk Rock | Unofficial Release | Label: Scorpio

The Genuine Philosophers Stone One Review by Richie Unterberger
This very well-assembled, handsomely packaged bootleg gathers interesting odds and ends, mostly unreleased, from Morrison's early career. His very early career, actually; ten of the 18 songs were done by his pre-solo career group Them in 1964-1966, while the remaining eight are publishing demos from the summer of 1968. Leading off the set are two unreleased June 1964 versions of songs Them later released, "Stormy Monday" and "Don't Start Crying Now." The "Stormy Monday" take is definitely rawer than the released one, with the kind of eerie knife-scraped descending guitar swoops that prove that Jimmy Page probably didn't play all of the guitar parts on Them's early records.

Van Morrison: The Best Of Van Morrison Volume 1, 2, 3 Re-up  Music

Posted by v3122 at June 19, 2021
Van Morrison: The Best Of Van Morrison Volume 1, 2, 3 Re-up

Van Morrison: The Best Of Van Morrison Volume 1, 2, 3
XLD, EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
4CD | Exile/Polydor | ~ 1907 or 736 Mb | Covers & Scans
Blues Rock / Folk Rock / Acoustic

Equal parts blue-eyed soul shouter and wild-eyed poet-sorcerer, Van Morrison is among popular music's true innovators, a restless seeker whose incantatory vocals and alchemical fusion of R&B, jazz, blues, and Celtic folk produced perhaps the most spiritually transcendent body of work in the rock & roll canon…
Van Morrison - Latest Record Project, Vol. 1 (2021) [Deluxe Ed.]

Van Morrison - Latest Record Project, Vol. 1 (2021)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2CD | Exile/BMG, 538667900 | ~ 884 or 303 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 452 Mb
Blues, Folk, Rock, Singer-Songwriter

In his old age, Van Morrison dispensed with any lingering niceties he harbored, favoring bluntness over poetry. That transition is made plain by the title Latest Record Project, Vol. 1, a literal description of the album if not its contents. Latest Record Project, Vol. 1 is indeed Morrison's latest record project as of 2021 – it's called "Vol. 1" because he recorded more than enough to fill a second volume, a remarkable feat considering that this album contains 28 tracks and runs well over two hours – and if that doesn't hint at what the music within sounds like, it's also true that Van Morrison has stayed in his R&B lane for much of the 2010s…
Van Morrison - No Guru, No Method, No Teacher (1986) Expanded Remastered 2008

Van Morrison - No Guru, No Method, No Teacher (1986) Remastered 2008
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 373 Mb | Scans ~ 253 Mb
Label: Polydor, Exile | # 5308762 | Time: 01:00:25
Singer-Songwriter, Pop Rock, Folk-Rock, Blues, Blue-Eyed Soul

Newly remastered sound and expanded packaging including lyrics of No Guru, No Method, No Teacher, an album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1986. The song "In the Garden" was a favorite fan concert performance and per Morrison, "I take you through a definite meditation process which is a form of transcendental meditation." This album was hailed by most critics as a return to form. John Wilde in Sounds remarks, "the crescendos here are never dampened by their subtle nature and never fall short of blinding. The whole album aches with a steady stream of sorrow."

Van Morrison - 2 Studio Albums (1968-1970)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Dec. 20, 2020
Van Morrison - 2 Studio Albums (1968-1970)

Van Morrison - 2 Studio Albums (1968-1970)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 498 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 203 MB | Covers - 240 MB
Genre: Folk Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul, Singer-Songwriter, Pop Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Bros. Records

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (1968). Astral Weeks is generally considered one of the best albums in pop music history, but for all that renown, it is anything but an archetypal rock & roll album. It it isn't a rock & roll album at all. Van Morrison plays acoustic guitar and sings in his elastic, bluesy, soulful voice, accompanied by crack group of jazz studio players: guitarist Jay Berliner, upright bassist Richard Davis, Modern Jazz Quartet drummer Connie Kay, vibraphonist Warren Smith and soprano saxophonist John Payne (also credited on flute, though that's debatable - some claim an anonymous flutist provided those parts). Producer Lewis Merenstein added chamber orchestrations later and divided the album into halves: "In The Beginning" and "Afterwards" with four tunes under each heading…

Van Morrison - This Is Van Morrison (1992)  Music

Posted by v3122 at June 28, 2021
Van Morrison - This Is Van Morrison (1992)

Van Morrison - This Is Van Morrison (1992)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Traditional Line, TL 1318 | ~ 335 or 179 Mb | Scans Included
Folk Rock

~ Recorded live 1971, California, Pacific High Studios, September 19th ~