Belfast Cowboy at the summit

Tupelo Honey is climactic, the summation of the style that Van Morrison began to develop with Moondance. His post-Astral Weeks music seems to me to be the finest of any single performer we have, the cyrstallization of sixties’ rhtyhm and blues into what it might have been had not the brilliant StaxMotown-Impressions work of that era been transferred to Las Vegas niteries and Slychedelic ballrooms.