Van Morrison

Astral Weeks was recorded in less than 48 hours with an all-star jazz backing band that Van Morrison didn't know. Yet, it remains one of the greatest albums in the history of popular music. Over an ardent mix of jazz, folk and Celtic rock, Morrison's impassioned, gospel-rich vocals wind their way around words, breathing life into them. A stunning body of work.

He didn't use the phrase for a song title until a year later, but Astral Weeks was the album
on which Van Morrison fully descended "into the mystic." Morrison's first full-fledged solo
album sounded like nothing else in the pop-music world of 1968: soft, reflective, hypnotic,
haunted by the ghosts of old blues singers and ancient Celts and performed by a group of
extraordinary jazz musicians, it sounds like the work of a singer and songwriter... More >