Seminal songwriter Van Morrison is at the centre of a new mystery, after denying reports that he had fathered a new baby.Van Morrison is one of the most important songwriters in rock music. From his beginnings in primal garage rockers Them through to his pastoral folk derived solo material...
MUSIC NEWS - The odd story of the reported birth earlier in the week of Van Morrison's new son (George Ivan Morrison III ), and his prompt denial, takes a new twist as the UK's Daily Mail reports that Gigi Lee is in fact real and Van Morrison knows her! She's been part of his staff, worked as his tour manager and is involved with several of his companies. Specifically, Gigi Lee is credited
This past week the life of Van Morrison has been one loopy soap opera.Just after Christmas it was revealed on the Van Morrison official website and via a press release to all major news agencies including Undercover that at 64-years of age Van Morrison was the new proud father of...
OK, so I've heard from a few parties about my perhaps overly intellectualized analysis of Van Morrison's song, That's Entrainment, from his new album Keep It Simple. But that was just one way of writing about the record, and as I indicated in my post there is more to be said... This time, though, I'll try to heed Van's own advice and keep it simple.Van Morrison's output over 4 decades is so massiv
For years I listened to at least one Van Morrison track every day, often playing one of his songs to energize myself before going in to teach a class or give a lecture. We're talking major obsession, here... so bear with me and this long post.These days my Van-time comes in waves, on and off. Lately it's been on to an unusual extent, due not only to the release of his latest album Keep It Simpl...
I just came across this old WFMU blog post about Van Morrison's Bang Records Contractual Obligation Session.In order to fulfill his obligation to his early solo label Bang Records,Van Morrison sat down in 1967 or so and cranked out 31 songs on the spot, on topics ranging from ringworm to wanting a danish, to hating his record label and a guy named George. Make sure you get past the first few tu...
Van Morrison is a man with one foot in the mystic. His relationship to the music he creates stands quite apart from most rockers. On a good night, or on a good cd, the music he makes transports him , and us, to a place where whats vocalized is secondary to the act of vocalizing. This is not the same as Scat Singing in Jazz.... ..No, this is something different. Van's inarticulate language c
