Van Morrison - Blowin' Your Mind! (Remastered) (1967/2020) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

It was a brand new day for Van Morrison when the Belfast, Ireland legend cut Blowin' Your Mind!, his spellbinding 1967 debut solo album! Fresh from a string of smash singles fronting British Invasion heroes Them, Van rode "Brown Eyed Girl," one of the all-time great teen-angst tales, to the top of the charts, then sailed off into the mystic with haunting, slowed-down classics like "He Ain't Give You None," "T.B. Sheets" and "Who Drove the Red Sports Car." Blowin' Your Mind! is a hypnotic tour de force that ranks with the very best material Van Morrison ever recorded.

"Although Van Morrison's first solo album is remembered for containing the immortal pop hit "Brown Eyed Girl," Blowin' Your Mind! is actually a dry run for his masterpiece, Astral Weeks. Songs like "Who Drove the Red Sports Car" look to that song cycle, even as "Midnight Special" nods to Morrison's R&B past. But it's the agonizing "T.B. Sheets" – all nine-plus minutes of it – that dominates this record and belies its trendy title and pop association. "T.B. Sheets" takes the blues and reinvents it as noble tragedy and humiliating mortality. It's where Van Morrison emerges as an artist. [Blowin' Your Mind! was superseded in 1991 by Bang Masters, which contains all of its tracks except "He Ain't Give You None," presented in an alternate take, plus Morrison's other recordings for Bang.]" (William Ruhlmann, AMG)

Tracklist:
1. Brown Eyed Girl (3:07)
2. He Ain't Give You None (5:16)
3. T. B. Sheets (9:47)
4. Spanish Rose (3:09)
5. Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye) (3:00)
6. Ro Ro Rosey (3:06)
7. Who Drove the Red Sports Car (5:37)
8. Midnight Special (2:51)

Digitally remastered