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Transcendence is always a work in progress the eight songs on Astral Weeks are still up to the task. Songfacts®: The opening, titular track of Van Morrisons second studio album, 'Astral Weeks' contains some of the Irish musicians most mysterious and spiritual lyrics. Here the song slips into a John Lee Hooker-like groove, and while I prefer the original, the change is an uplifting surprise.

Morrison has also re-sequenced the album for concert effect, ending with the extended hypnosis of “Madame George.” The 1968 LP closes with the weightless “Slim Slow Slider” - just acoustic bass and splashes of tone around Morrison’s heated whisper. Here is a bit on how the name of the album came about. In the live Astral Weeks, performed with a big band that reproduces the gentle touch of the ’68 session group, Morrison brings out those blues more emphatically - his vocal-and-harp break in “Sweet Thing” is like a hot wind of Little Walter. Provided to YouTube by Rhino/Warner RecordsAstral Weeks (2015 Remaster) Van MorrisonAstral Weeks (Expanded Edition) 1969 Warner Records Inc. The full album is available on YouTube or your streaming service but I do prefer to have a physical copy. The ruminative force of Morrison’s singing on Weeks was not that far from his early hard-blues attack in the band Them. Astral Weeks was Morrison’s first step toward transcendence as a singer-songwriter, a radical turn away from the AM-radio success of his 1967 hit “Brown Eyed Girl.” The album is still like nothing else in rock, a quiet union of breathtaking opposites: Morrison’s soul-trance reflections on his early life in Belfast and the tension of the chamber-jazz arrangements. When Van Morrison sings, “I believe I’ve transcended,” at the end of “Astral Weeks” - the first song in this full 2008 recital of his historic album of the same name - it is in a warm, grateful growl remarkably like that of the younger man who made the 1968 studio LP.

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