Van Morrison - The Essential Van Morrison (2015)

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. Subject only to the whims of his own muse, his recordings cover extraordinary stylistic ground yet retain a consistency and purity virtually unmatched among his contemporaries, connected by the mythic power of his singular musical vision and his incendiary vocal delivery: spiraling repetitions of wails and whispers that bypass the confines of language to articulate emotional truths far beyond the scope of literal meaning.

TRACKLIST

CD 1

01. Gloria (with Them)
02. Here Comes The Night (with Them)
03. Spanish Rose
04. Brown Eyed Girl
05. Astral Weeks
06. The Way Young Lovers Do
07. Moondance
08. Crazy Love
09. And It Stoned Me
10. Into The Mystic
11. Domino
12. Wild Night
13. Tupelo Honey
14. Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)
15. Warm Love
16. Fair Play
17. Caravan (The Band feat. Van Morrison) (Live From The Last Waltz)
18. Hungry For Your Love
19. Cleaning Windows (Live)

CD 2

01. Bright Side Of The Road
02. And The Healing Has Begun
03. Tore Down A La Rimbaud
04. Someone Like You
05. Irish Heartbeat (with The Chieftains)
06. Whenever God Shines His Light (with Cliff Richard)
07. Have I Told You Lately
08. Real Real Gone
09. Enlightenment
10. Why Must I Always Explain?
11. Days Like This
12. That's Life
13. Rough God Goes Riding
14. Precious Time
15. Once In A Blue Moon
16. Magic Time
17. Playhouse
18. Sweet Thing (Live)