Van Morrison Speaks About New Blues-Inspired Album
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Holy Crap! Van Morrison actually sat down with media and gave an interview today, March 10th. He never does this! My life long dream of possibly interviewing the Irish man behind one of my most favorite albums of all times (Astral Weeks) is one step closer.
Van the Man gave a little chat with The Today Programme about his 35th album Keep It Simple on BBC Radio 4. (Damn! Along with the whole Hells Angels/Mick Jagger assassination thing, BBC 4 Radio has been on fire!) "It's addressing basically the propaganda that's been put out about people like myself who don't do a lot of interviews, don't do a lot of media stuff," Morrison says of the return to blues/gospel album.The opening track on Keep It Simple, is "How Can A Poor Boy," which addresses Morrison's backlash with the media, where he's been called everything from a recluse to a mystic. "Nobody knows me. None of these people know me. They don't know where I came from, they don't know where I've been, they don't know what it took and they don't know how hard it was. They don't know me, so that's what the song is addressing. How can a poor boy get a message through to you." "My personality doesn't suit the celebrity bit. Some people wanna be out there. I just don't. Basically, I’m a simple guy in a complicated business. The fame thing - I’ve never been comfortable with fame, so that's what a lot of this material is about.""Its got elements of blues, folk, gospel all my influences - Curtis Mayfield," Morrison says of the 11-track album he even plays ukelelee on. "It's got a lot of inspiration from various things I was inspired by out there, but it comes out like a new album."Morrison even took the time to shoot back at the media. "There’s an obsession at the minute with what some people call the comics and what I call the propaganda magazines, Mojo, Q Magazine, The Word and Rolling Stone magazine in America…there’s this obsession with the past. It’s like no one has moved on. I've moved on. The marketplace is going backwards in terms of stuck in the past. who's having a breakthrough of something new. I haven't heard it."You can hear the rest of the interview with Van Morrison at "the BBC Radio 4 web site.":http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/Keep It Simple track list:1. How Can A Poor Boy?2. School Of Hard Knocks3. That's Entrainment4. Don't Go To Nightclubs Anymore5. Lover Come Back6. Keep It Simple7. End Of The Land8. Song Of Home9. No Thing10. Soul11. Behind The Ritual
Van the Man gave a little chat with The Today Programme about his 35th album Keep It Simple on BBC Radio 4. (Damn! Along with the whole Hells Angels/Mick Jagger assassination thing, BBC 4 Radio has been on fire!) "It's addressing basically the propaganda that's been put out about people like myself who don't do a lot of interviews, don't do a lot of media stuff," Morrison says of the return to blues/gospel album.The opening track on Keep It Simple, is "How Can A Poor Boy," which addresses Morrison's backlash with the media, where he's been called everything from a recluse to a mystic. "Nobody knows me. None of these people know me. They don't know where I came from, they don't know where I've been, they don't know what it took and they don't know how hard it was. They don't know me, so that's what the song is addressing. How can a poor boy get a message through to you." "My personality doesn't suit the celebrity bit. Some people wanna be out there. I just don't. Basically, I’m a simple guy in a complicated business. The fame thing - I’ve never been comfortable with fame, so that's what a lot of this material is about.""Its got elements of blues, folk, gospel all my influences - Curtis Mayfield," Morrison says of the 11-track album he even plays ukelelee on. "It's got a lot of inspiration from various things I was inspired by out there, but it comes out like a new album."Morrison even took the time to shoot back at the media. "There’s an obsession at the minute with what some people call the comics and what I call the propaganda magazines, Mojo, Q Magazine, The Word and Rolling Stone magazine in America…there’s this obsession with the past. It’s like no one has moved on. I've moved on. The marketplace is going backwards in terms of stuck in the past. who's having a breakthrough of something new. I haven't heard it."You can hear the rest of the interview with Van Morrison at "the BBC Radio 4 web site.":http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/Keep It Simple track list:1. How Can A Poor Boy?2. School Of Hard Knocks3. That's Entrainment4. Don't Go To Nightclubs Anymore5. Lover Come Back6. Keep It Simple7. End Of The Land8. Song Of Home9. No Thing10. Soul11. Behind The Ritual
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