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The Hunt For New Music: “Ain’t Nothing You Can Do” is one of Van Morrison’s greatest songs and live it’s even better than the recorded version. This song spells out the dilemma that everyone who has ever had and lost a love has been through: that nagging pain when they’re gone that you just can’t …
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The Hunt For New Music: “Ain’t Nothing You Can Do” is one of Van Morrison’s greatest songs and live it’s even better than the recorded version. This song spells out the dilemma that everyone who has ever had and lost a love has been through: that nagging pain when they’re gone that you just can’t …
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The Hunt for New Music : “Into The Mystic”, from Moondance, Morrison’s follow up album to Astral Weeks , is a song that combines Morrison’s well documented musical relationship with transcendence and mysticism. It’s been covered by everyone from the Allman Brothers to Ben E. King. This version has Van in glasses doing a modestly acoustic version …
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The Hunt For New Music: Van Morrison’s Montreaux Jazz Festival appearance in 1974 is a classic. It’s Van at an early stage in his career, already with a massive catalog of great songs, playing to a sophisticated jazz audience in Montreaux at the famous jazz festival; as one writer noted about the evening, the crowded …
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The Hunt For New Music : Van Morrison appearing with The Band in 1979 during the final concert of the seminal documentary, The Last Waltz.The Song is “Caravan” one of his very best and a signature tune. The movie was directed by Martin Scorsese and if you have not seen it, it is definitely something any music …
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The Hunt For New Music : Van Morrison appearing with The Band in 1979 during the final concert of the seminal documentary, The Last Waltz.The Song is “Caravan” one of his very best and a signature tune. The movie was directed by Martin Scorsese and if you have not seen it, it is definitely something any music …
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The Hunt For New Music: One of a pair of live concerts Van performed in Ireland in 1979, this one in Bellfast, contains one of the all-time great renditions of his first really big hit, “Gloria”. Van, seen here performing with his really tight band, is in front of a very sharp crowd that …
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The Hunt for New Music: Van Morrison doing “Have I Told You Lately That I Love You”, a song made famous by Rod Stewart and also used frequenctly in movie scores. This version features saxophonist Candy Dulfer and Pee Wee Ellis. Special Thanks to vossmeister who uploaded this to YouTube; the clip is 6:59 in …
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