Artist: Van Morrison
Live Reviews from web archive March 2, 2009
Van Morrison
Van Morrison relishes being a musical enigma. There is no other way to explain Saturday night’s once-in-a-lifetime concert at the FailedBank Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The show was billed as one of a handful where Morrison would perform, in its entirety, his brilliantly abstract 1968 masterpiece Astral Weeks – an [...]
Column from web archive December 31, 2008
Like a ship out in the night…
In the days and weeks following 9/11, pronouncements over how our lives had been permanently altered flowed upstream and down. Irony was declared dead (sayonara David Letterman). Sensitivity had its i’s double-dotted, leading Clear Channel Communications to order its more than 1,000 radio outlets not to play dozens of songs it deemed tasteless in this [...]
Column from web archive November 13, 2008
Wynn wins, Swift’s sweet, Van’s the man, and more
Steve Wynn Returns: Former Dream Syndicate frontman/paisley underground enabler Steve Wynn has been on a roll lately, releasing a disc with the Baseball Project (his collaboration with Young Fresh Fellow Scott McCaughey and R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, among others) and joining with the Teenaged Prayers in a band called Hazel Motes (named, it’s a safe bet, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #74 March-April 2008
Van Morrison – Keep It Simple
Van Morrison is the kind of superlative singer who justifies the cliché about the artist who “could sing the phone book.” The songs on Keep It Simple are certainly better than names and numbers, though none of them rank with Morrison’s best. To be fair, competing with one’s finest work is a Herculean challenge for [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Van Morrison – Ryman Auditorium (Nashville, TN)
The fact was, longer-time residents confirm, Van Morrison had never played Nashville before this night, ever, not in 40 years of appearing around the globe. The fact that he was touring behind his new Pay The Devil album — full, as it is, of very Van versions of country tunes both celebrated and obscure — [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #62 Mar-Apr 2006
Van Morrison – Pay The Devil
No rock singer to emerge in the 1960s displayed more intensity, depth and subtlety than Van Morrison. From his formative years with Them through his early solo work, he poured all of himself into a song, whether it was the orgasmic “Gloria”, the terrifying “T.B. Sheets”, or the all-consuming (and aptly titled) “I Can Only [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #30 Nov-Dec 2000
Van Morrison & Linda Gail Lewis – You Win Again
Linda Gail Lewis, never really a star singer in her own right, remembered almost exclusively for duets with her incendiary older sibling Jerry Lee, has been way off the charts in the United States for a long time. But she can pump a mean, mean piano in the Lewis boogie style, and belt rock ‘n’ [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #18 Nov-Dec 1998
Bob Dylan / Van Morrison / Lucinda Williams – Rose Garden Arena (Portland, OR)
Watching Lucinda Williams step on the Rose Garden Arena stage as the crowd of 14,000 filed in, I recalled the first time I saw her perform, in 1989 at a small club in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her tentativeness that night and almost Sally Field-ish reaction to the crowd’s applause was, at times, excruciating. If [...]
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