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It should come as no surprise that Van Morrison has made an album inspired by skiffle. Van Morrison's love of skiffle dates back to his childhood. He would hang out at the famed Belfast record store Atlantic Records, where he'd hear early 20th century folk, blues and jazz from the likes of Lead Belly and Jelly Roll Morton.
'Moving On Skiffle' finds him taking a homemade style that exploded across Britain in the mid-1950s and infusing it with a level of sophistication and soulfulness that it didn't always possess the first time around. The 23-track album goes to the heart of the music Van Morrison has inhabited ever since he was six years old, hanging out in the smoky confines of Belfast's Atlantic Records.
It also contains songs that underline, in their messages on the importance of freedom and living on your own terms, his lifetime philosophy.
Lit Up Inside contains the lyrics of about one third of the songs
that Van Morrison has written over his 50 year career. In this
representative selection from the work of one of the most
innovative and enduring songwriters of the last century, the reader
will find examples of all the features of the world that Van has
created through his work: the back streets and mystic avenues;
memories of childhood wonder and of adult work; the chime of church
bells and the playing of the radio; the generous naming of other
artists and the joy of solitude; love and sharp dealing;
consolation and grace.
'This mix of genuine humility and hard-won hubris, of mysticism and
technical mastery ... makes Van Morrison quite simply, and quite
indisputably, "The Bard of Belfast".' Paul Muldoon If I ventured in
the slipstream Between the viaducts of your dreams Keep 'Er Lit is
the second volume of Van Morrison's collected lyrics containing one
hundred and twenty songs from across his storied career. It
contains love songs, work songs, songs about the pains and
anxieties of existence, songs of consolation, songs about various
kinds of spiritual quest and the realms of the mystical, and songs
which deal with healing and reconciliation, both with the self and
with others. Then there are the songs of memory and of childhood;
songs about the natural world and about the perspectives it can
provide on time. Taken together with Lit Up Inside, this volume
gives an overview of his fifty-year career, revealing why he is
celebrated as one of the most innovative and enduring songwriters
of our time.
A selection of sixties rock hits from the likes of The Kinks, Van
Morrison, The Hollies, The Animals, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, The
Troggs and Grateful Dead.
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