Van Morrison - Catalog Strays 1965-2000 (2002)

 

Van Morrison - Catalog Strays 1965-2000 (2002) (Flac)

The three-CD anthology - boasting 51 tracks in all - covers every Morrison non-album track, B-Side, alternate mix, duet, withdrawn song, soundtracks and/or rarity hidden somewhere between 1965-2000." The package includes 51 track and a 52 page brochure with a biography and the interview called "Roots and Influences" with Paul Lewis from Now Dig This magazine, in November 1991. Some of the tracks from this collection come from the various Guest Appearances that Van has done on other artists' CDs over the years. Others are from some of Van's CD singles.

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Van Morrison - 2002 - When You Hear the Music Ringing In Your Soul (Unofficial Release) - Corrected

Van Morrison - 2002 - When You Hear the Music Ringing In Your Soul @320 - Corrected

 

An unofficial 'best of' 2002.

Cd1:

1. The way young lovers do e

2. Slim slow slider e

3. Listen to the lion e

4. Sweet thing f

5. Madame George a

6. What would I do k

7. Beside you k

8. Allow me k

9. Streets of Arklow h

10. Who was that masked man? e

11. Foreign window e

12. Allan Watts blues j

13. I forgot that love existed j

Cd2:

1. In the afternoon c

2. Hey Mr. DJ e

3. Sometimes we cry e

4. Wonderful remark e

5. Stormy Monday e

6. Roving rambler (tribute to Lonnie Donegan) i

7. The beauty of the days gone by i

8. I finally come to realise b

9. Only a dream b

10. Vanlose stairway h

11. She gives me religion l

12. Goldfish bowl l

13. St. James infirmary b

14. Now's the time i

Cd3:

1. Steal my heart away f

2. Tore down a la Rimbaud f

3. Down the road f

4. Don't worry about a thing f

5. Fast train f

6. In the midnight d

7. Georgia on my mind g

8. It's all in the game g

9. Muleskinner blues k

10. Don't worry about a thing k

11. The philosopher's stone k

12. When the healing has begun k

a: May 3 Dublin

b: May 4 Dublin

c: May 31 Killarney

d: Jun 6 Berlin

e: Aug 30 Torquay

f: Nov 2 Dublin

g: Nov 3 Dublin

h: Nov 15 Amsterdam

i: Nov 16 Amsterdam

j: Dec 20 Sandefjord

k: Dec 21 Sandefjord

l: Dec 27 Utrecht

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Van Morrison - 2000 - The Genuine Philosopher's Stone (Unofficial Release)

Van Morrison - 2000 - The Genuine Philosopher's Stone (Unofficial Release) @320

CD1

01 - Stormy Monday - 5:22

02 - Don't Start Crying Now - 1:36

03 - Here Comes The Night - 2:44

04 - All By Myself - 2:41

05 - Gloria - 3:04

06 - One More Time - 2:38

07 - I Gave My Love A Diamond - 3:03

08 - Here Comes The Night - 3:49

09 - Turn On Your Lovelight - 6:29

10 - Mighty Like A Rose - 3:53

11 - Bayou Girl - 5:40

12 - The Way Young Lovers Do - 3:33

13 - Ballerina - 4:41

14 - Bayou Girl - 6:21

15 - Magic Night - 6:23

16 - I Need Your Kind Of Loving Part I - 6:31

17 - I Need Your Kind Of Loving Part II - 3:47

18 - Mona Mona - 4:59

Notes

Tracks 1 & 2: Them's first recording session - Belfast - June 1964

Tracks 3 & 4: BBC Recording Studios - London - March 1965

Tracks 5 & 6: BBC Recording Studios - London - June 1965

Track 7: Alternate studio version - December 1965

Tracks 8 & 9: NME Poll Winners Concert - Empire Pool Wembley - April 1965

Track 10: Demo - July 1966

Tracks 113: Solo publishing demos - Warner Music Publishing Studios, NYC - Summer 1968

Tracks 14-18: Publishing demos with Tom Kielbania (bass) & John Payne (flute) - Warner Music Publishing Studios, NYC - Summer 1968

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CD2

01 - Caravan - 4:43

02 - Everyone - 3:53

03 - Brand New Day - 5:54

04 - Come Running - 7:53

05 - These Dreams Of You - 2:27

06 - And It Stoned Me - 4:21

07 - You Set My Soul On Fire - 5:07

08 - Come Running (Fast Version) - 5:49

09 - Standing On A Corner - 2:28

10 - Bit By Bit - 4:58

11 - If I Ever Needed Someone - 4:29

12 - If You Rock Me - 2:22

13 - If I Had A Rainbow - 3:01

14 - Domino (With Flute) - 4:33

15 - Hey, Where Are You? - 2:53

16 - Lorna/ By The River - 6:19

17 - On A Rainy Afternoon - 3:14

18 - I Can't Get Straight - 1:09

Notes

Tracks 8: Demo session for Moondance album - NYC - Summer 1969

Tracks 9-18: Warner Music publishing demos - Warner Music Publishing Studios, NYC - December 1969

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CD3

01 - Domino (Harmony Version) - 3:25

02 - Domino ("Rap" Version) - 4:58

03 - Domino (2nd "Rap" Version) - 5:33

04 - When The Evening Sun Goes Down (Jazz Version) - 2:50

05 - Lorna (With Band) - 4:43

06 - Wild Night (With Band) - 6:23

07 - Friday's Child - 5:44

08 - Just Like A Woman - 7:47

09 - Dead Or Alive - 5:19

10 - Tell Me About Your Love - 3:37

11 - Spare Me A Little - 2:37

12 - Redwood Tree - 3:18

13 - Hard Nose The Highway - 7:14

14 - I Just Want To Make Love To You - 7:48

15 - When I Deliver - 6:22

Notes

Tracks 1-6: Warner Music publishing demos - Warner Music Publishing Studios, NYC - 1970

Tracks 7-9: Pacific High Recording Studios - September 5 1971

Track 10: Demo - 1971

Track 11: Jackie DeShannon LP recording session - 1972

Track 12: St Dominics Preview outtake - 1973

Track 13: Lion's Share, San Anselmo CA - February 15 1973

Tracks 14 & 15: Record Plant, Sausolito CA - 1975

 

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John Lee Hooker - 1997 - Don't Look Back

John Lee Hooker - 1997 - Don't Look Back @320

With new John Lee Hooker songs, new versions of old Hooker songs, four duets with and a new song by Van Morrison, Don't Look Back continues the venerable bluesman's string of excellent albums in his '90s renaissance. Produced by Morrison, it also celebrates the 25th anniversary of their first recording together, as Morrison guested on Hooker's seminal Never Get Out of These Blues Alive in 1972. Don't Look Back hits the ground running with a rowdy, thumpin' remake of "Dimples" with Los Lobos; "Spellbound" pounds out more of Hooker's stylistic trademark -- throbbing, raw, hard-driving boogie. The Morrison tracks include the ruminative title cut and his haunting "The Healing Game." Hooker also gives Hendrix's classic blues "Red House" his own rough-hewn, distinctive treatment.(AllMusic)

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Van Morrison - 1997 - The Healing Game (Deluxe) (2019)

Van Morrison - 1997 - The Healing Game (Deluxe) (2019) @ 320

 Oh what a Van-fest! In this 3 Cd digipack CD box there is a treasure-trove of goodies.

It is the kind of thing that I would be up to with my Playlist series. On the back of the original The Healing Game, which has not been remastered, we get the B-sides of singles from the time. Then we have CD 2 which is a collage of songs from The Healing Game project and various other projects from the era.

So, if unlike me you haven’t already, you don’t need to hoke out - CD singles, Sult, Good Rocking Tonight and The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers, John Lee Hooker’s Don’t Look Back and Lonnie Donegan’s Muleskinner Blues - because the Van tracks from them are here. 

On CD two there are three collaborations that bring some fantastic tunes. I’ve been particularly loving the rocking rhythm and blues of his five songs with Carl Perkins. Four of these have been previously unreleased and one of those My Angel is a co-write. This second disc has ten previously unissued songs including a Morrison original Didn’t He Ramble and A Kiss To Build A Dream On made famous by Louis Armstrong in 1951.

There is more! The third disc is an absolutely pumping live show from Montreux in July 1997. Just a few months after the release of The Healing Game the set list has seven songs from the record. This is the Morrison’s few years with Brian Kennedy bringing backing vocals. Kennedy’s singing added grace notes indeed. That high end voice gets close to angelic and when he and Morrison play off each other like a call and response, it is climactic and electric. 

So, as I say, a treasure trove! In the end though, what the three discs did for me was highlight the strength of The Healing Game in Morrison’s phenomenal body of work. There are six varied versions of the title track here, three versions of Fire In The Belly and Sometimes We Cry. What these versions did was throw different hues across them and the entire album. It rose up my favourite Morrison records list for sure.

Then… and maybe contrived but… these songs were recorded between the Northern Ireland ceasefires and the Good Friday Agreement. So when I hear: -

 

Don't look back

To the days of yester-year

You cannot live on in the past

Don't look back

An' I've known so many people

They're still tryin' to live on in the past

Don't look back

(Don’t Look Back - John Lee Hooker)

and

Here I am again

Back on the corner again

Back where I belong

Where I've always been

Everything the same

It don't ever change

I'm back on the corner again

In the healing game

(The Healing Game)

Morrison used yet another acoustic version of The Healing Game on a fundraising album Across The Bridge Of Hope for the victims of the 1998 Omagh bomb. Morrison always said it was a song from America, doo-wop singing on street corners. Healing is a spiritual thing here and Van was intrigued by it - The Healing Has Begun and Did Ye Get Healed just two other songs on the theme! It’s hard as you listen to some of these versions to not see those corners as the streets of East Belfast where, whatever his geographical place, Van Morrison always seems close to. 

We are still needing that Healing on his Belfast streets in 2019! (Soul Surmise)

ANDY

Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey (1971) Re (1997)

 

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