Professional musician most of my life and never heard the connection between Van Morrison’s “Domino” and Steely Dan’s “My Old School” until today. #VanMorrison#SteelyDan#Music
#GreatAlbums1960s - #VanMorrison – Astral Weeks (1968). Van the Man never made another album quite like this one. Its jazz-inflected folk wanders through pastoral soundscapes as Morrison’s poetic lyrics and vocal improvisations trip through a personal cosmos of blissed-out emotion. “Beside You,” “Cyprus Avenue” and “Madame George” are what WB Yeats might have sounded like if he’d grown up among the beatniks and absorbed the lyrical cadences of sixties counterculture.
Speaking of hurricanes. As many of you know, I've followed Kaz since before she went solo, and made the long trip to Boston to see her on her first North American visit.