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Sir George Ivan Morrison OBE (born 31 August 1945) [2] is a singer-songwriter and musician from Northern Ireland whose recording career spans seven decades.
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- Van Morrison Discography
Learn about the life and career of Van Morrison, one of music's true originals and a prolific recording artist and performer. Explore his albums, awards, collaborations and influences from blues, jazz, Celtic and more.
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Prior to the Tupelo Honey recording sessions, Morrison had recorded demo tracks in Woodstock for an upcoming country-and-western album. Some of the tracks planned for Tupelo Honey did appear on the album, but other more traditional country songs like "The Wild Side of Life", "Crying Time" and "Banks of the Ohio" were abandoned. Morrison decided to ...
Due to the location of the recording sessions of Tupelo Honey, having moved from New York to California, the only musicians from Morrison's previous band that could work with him were saxophonist Jack Schroer and his wife Ellen (who contributed backing vocals). However, two of the three percussionists on the album had recorded with him in the past;...
The rural setting in Marin County furnished the backdrop for the domestic bliss associated with the album, and the songs' lyrics contained harmonious references to the "good life at home". In an interview given to New Spotlight magazine at the time, Morrison's wife, Janet Planet, referred to Morrison's dislike of socializing at this time: "Really h...
The title of the album derives from the varietal honey produced from the flowers of the tupelotree found predominantly in Florida. The photos on the album were taken by Michael Maggid, a friend of Morrison's then wife Janet Planet, in the town of Fairfax. The original LP was released in a gatefold sleeve. The cover photograph showed Planet, riding ...
Tupelo Honey was first released on LP in October 1971 on Warner Bros. Records. The album reached number 27 on the Billboard 200, which was the highest position reached in the US by any of Morrison's albums at that point. However it failed to reach any of the charts across Europe. By the middle of 1974 Tupelo Honey had sold well over 350,000 copies ...
Tupelo Honey was well received by critics upon the album's release. Jon Landau wrote in Rolling Stone: "Tupelo Honey is in one sense but another example of the artist making increased use of the album as the unit of communication as opposed to merely the song or the cut. Everything on it is perfectly integrated." ZigZag magazine reviewer John Toble...
In 2009, music journalist Erik Hage wrote that Tupelo Honey"has become one of Morrison's most likeable albums, but the very elements that make it appealing to many—the homey feeling, the personal odes to married life—also make it a complacent album for an artist who had been pushing forward and challenging boundaries for the past few years." Morris...
Musicians 1. Van Morrison – rhythm guitar, harmonica, vocals, backing vocals 2. Ronnie Montrose – electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, backing vocals 3. John McFee – pedal steel guitar 4. Bill Church – bass 5. Ted Templeman– organ on "Tupelo Honey" 6. Mark Jordan – piano, electric piano 7. Jack Schroer – alto, tenor and baritone saxophones 8. L...
Mar 16, 2022 · Learn about the life and career of Van Morrison, a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and legend of rock and soul. Find out his age, marital status, children, net worth and best songs.
Sir George Ivan Morrison OBE (born 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer whose recording career spans seven decades. Morrison's solo career began in 1967 with the release of the hit single " Brown Eyed Girl ".
Apr 22, 2024 · Van Morrison (born August 31, 1945, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an Irish singer-songwriter and occasional saxophonist who played in a succession of groups, most notably Them, in the mid-1960s before enjoying a long, varied, and increasingly successful solo career.
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