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Van Morrison - tupelo honey (1971)

Track listing:
  1. Wild Night 3:32
  2. Like A Cannonball 3:39
  3. Old Old Woodstock 4:12
  4. Starting A New Life 2:08
  5. You're My Woman 6:40
  6. Tupelo Honey 6:50
  7. I Wanna Roo You 3:21
  8. When That Evening Sun Goes Dow 3:03
  9. Moonshine Whiskey 6:24

Notes

Tupelo Honey is typical of Morrison's early-1970s work in both sound and structure; after dispensing with the requisite hit — here, the buoyant, R&B-inflected "Wild Night" — he truly gets down to business, settling into a luminously pastoral drift typified by the nostalgic "Old Old Woodstock." At the heart of the record are a pair of stunning love songs, "You're My Woman" and the hymn-like title cut, one of Morrison's most enduring and transcendent compositions.