The Essential Van Morrison (Remastered) Van Morrison

• 1 Gloria (Stereo Version) (48 kHz) 02:36
• 2 Here Comes the Night (48 kHz) 02:44
• 3 Spanish Rose (48 kHz) 03:05
• 4 Brown Eyed Girl (48 kHz) 03:03
• 5 Astral Weeks 07:01
• 6 The Way Young Lovers Do 03:11
• 7 Moondance 04:35
• 8 Crazy Love 02:37
• 9 And It Stoned Me 04:29
• 10 Into the Mystic 03:24
• 11 Domino 03:07
• 12 Wild Night 03:33
• 13 Tupelo Honey 06:54
• 14 Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile) 03:00
• 15 Warm Love 03:23
• 16 Fair Play 06:15
• 17 Caravan - Live (48 kHz) 05:44
• 18 Hungry for Your Love (Remastered) 03:44
• 19 Cleaning Windows - Live 04:22
• 20 Bright Side of the Road 03:46
• 21 And the Healing Has Begun 08:02
• 22 Tore Down a la Rimbaud 04:06
• 23 Someone Like You 04:09
• 24 Irish Heartbeat 03:52
• 25 Whenever God Shines His Light 04:53
• 26 Have I Told You Lately 04:18
• 27 Real Real Gone 03:37
• 28 Enlightenment 04:04
• 29 Why Must I Always Explain? 03:53
• 30 Days Like This 03:10
• 31 That's Life 03:47
• 32 Rough God Goes Riding 06:18
• 33 Precious Time (Remastered) 03:48
• 34 Once in a Blue Moon (48 kHz) 03:28
• 35 Magic Time (48 kHz) 05:08
• 36 Playhouse (48 kHz) 04:14
• 37 Sweet Thing - Live (48 kHz) 05:38
• 38 Close Enough for Jazz 03:45
• Total Runtime 02:40:43

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With Legacy Recordings securing the rights to the meat and potatoes of Van Morrison’s catalog, the drive to get the music in shape and out to consumers is full-on. Covering more than 50 years of music, with 50 titles from 1964 to the present, Morrison’s solo works from 1971 to the present are up for renewal as is the music the singer made with his band Them from 1964 through 1966. The Essential Van Morrison is a double-album, 37-track career-spanning anthology that kicks things off in grand style as a thorough introduction to Van Morrison. It all starts with those early Them nuggets like “Gloria” and “Here Comes The Night” before moving onto to Morrsion’s first solo hit “Brown Eyed Girl.” Of course, “Astral Weeks,” the title track of his second solo album changed the game entirely, leading to a career of musical exploration that transcends those early R&B and pop flavorings to more organic strains of country music, jazz, Celtic folk and rock.

Through it all, The Essential Van Morrison offers up highlights like “Moondance,” “And It Stoned Me,” “Domino,” “Wild Night” “Jackie Wilson Said (I’m In Heaven When You Smile)” and a smokin’ live version of “Caravan.” And that’s just the first disc. The second disc features songs from 1979 onward, a period when Morrison was less commercial, but more experimental, and by far more respected than ever. His simple and eloquent lines on “Irish Heartbeat” with the Chieftains is a prime example of where his heart was in the 80s. “Days Like This” from 1995 features another easy and smooth vocal with a jazzy swing. Clearly, as he has aged, Morrison’s range has expanded to the point where he can take any song and make it all his own. Even “That’s Life,” the widely covered Dean Kay and Kelly Gordon classic made most famous by Frank Sinatra in 1966, feels warm, fuzzy and fresh in Morrison’s hands.

"Timed to coincide with the first-ever digital release of the bulk of Van Morrison's catalog, 2015's The Essential Van Morrison is an idiosyncratic double-disc retrospective that runs from Them until a selection from 2009's Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl. Career-spanning anthologies are a rarity in Morrison's discography, as are compilations in general; apart from the endless march of Bang material, he's only had 1990's The Best of Van Morrison and its 1993 sequel, The Best of Van Morrison, Vol. 2, plus 2007's Still on Top: The Greatest Hits. The Essential Van Morrison doesn't merely recycle these compilations. It carves its own path, placing his best-known material from the '60s and '70s on the first disc, then covering 1979 and beyond on the second collection. This is a smart move because the truth is, Morrison never had many hits: the last time he crested the Billboard Top 40 was in 1971, when "Blue Money" made it to 23, while his last time in the U.K. Top 40 came in 1989, when "Whenever God Shines His Light" reached 20 with the assistance of Cliff Richard. The latter is here but the former joins "Come Running" as the two biggest omissions here -- other smaller ones are the non-LP "Wonderful Remark," "Full Force Gale," and "A Sense of Wonder" -- but even with their absence, The Essential Van Morrison covers all the necessary ground, delivering the staples while giving a sense of the full run of Morrison's career." (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG)

Van Morrison, vocals, guitar, harmonica, production, rhythm guitar, tambourine, backing vocals
Al Gorgoni, guitar
Hugh McCracken, guitar
Paul Griffin, piano
Garry Sherman, conductor, organ, actual arranger, musical supervisor
Jay Berliner, classical and steel-string acoustic guitars
Richard Davis, double bass
Eric Gale, bass
Gary Chester, drums
Connie Kay, drums
Warren Smith, Jr., percussion, vibraphone
Barry Kornfeld, acoustic guitar on "The Way Young Lovers Do"
The Sweet Inspirations, background vocals for "Brown Eyed Girl"
Them:
Peter Bardens, keyboards, organ (track 1)
Billy Harrison, guitar (track 1)
Alan Henderson, bass (track 1)
John McAuley, drums, piano, harmonica (track 1)

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