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.
Belfast Cowboy at the summit
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TUPELO HONEY
VAN MORRISON
WARNER BROS.
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.
Even so, many of Van Morrison’s fans will never be satisfied until he again does something as stormy and heart-rending as Astral Weeks, and that’s a shame. It is as though we had demanded stasis of Bob Dylan after Blonde on Blonde or that the Beatles do Sgt. Pepper forever.
Astral Weeks was an epiphany, and almost inaccessible to the majority of Van’s potential audience. It is physically unrepeatable, but that’s just fine., What Morrison has to offer is more than the transcendence of, pain that comprised the majority of Astral Weeks' mystique.