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Moving On Skiffle - Sealed

VAN MORRISON Moving On Skiffle (2023 UK/EU limited edition 23-track double vinyl album LP, the forty fourth studio album from the legendary Northern Irish singer-songwriter. Moving On Skiffle finds him taking a homemade style that exploded across Britain in the mid-1950s and infusing it with a level of sophistication and soulfulness that it didn’t always possess the first time around. Gatefold picture sleeve and factory sealed!)

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Release Year 2023 - 1 years ago
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Format 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album)
Record Label Exile
Complete Stock List Go to Van Morrison
Product Catalogue No 00602448192288
Music Genre Folk, 70s Rock, Singer/Songwriter, 70s Artists
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
 
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It should come as no surprise that Van Morrison has made an album inspired by skiffle. Van Morrison’s love of skiffle dates back to his childhood. He would hang out at the famed Belfast record store Atlantic Records, where he’d hear early 20th century folk, blues and jazz from the likes of Lead Belly and Jelly Roll Morton. So when he heard Lonnie Donegan’s take on ‘Rock Island Line’ he intuitively understood the music he was creating. Before long, Van Morrison was playing with a skiffle band in school.

Moving On Skiffle finds him taking a homemade style that exploded across Britain in the mid-1950s and infusing it with a level of sophistication and soulfulness that it didn’t always possess the first time around. The 23-track album goes to the heart of the music Van Morrison has inhabited ever since he was six years old, hanging out in the smoky confines of Belfast's Atlantic Records. It also contains songs that underline, in their messages on the importance of freedom and living on your own terms, his lifetime philosophy.

For the most part, Van Morrison plays these timeless songs straight. Several of them feature his own arrangements, while select others feature his own characteristic lyrical twists. The ever-rebellious Morrison has changed the title of ‘Mama Don’t Allow’, recorded by both the Memphis Jug Band and the Chicago blues man Tampa Red in the late 1920s, to ‘Gov Don’t Allow’, a nod to his fight against the rise of government interference in our daily lives. And the gospel standard ‘This Little Light of Mine’, a key anthem of the Civil Rights movement in ‘60s America, is transformed into the rollicking, upbeat ‘This Loving Light of Mine’.

Opening track ‘Freight Train’ is an immediate highlight, a song which was originally written by Elizabeth Cotten and then recorded by both Peggy Seeger and Chas McDevitt. Van Morrison has given it as a sophisticated jazz arrangement complete with rollicking organ, close harmony vocals and some new words. Elsewhere, ‘Wish I Was An Apple On A True’ is given wonderful warmth, completed by jaunty washboard and treacle-rich vocal harmonies. ‘Gypsy Davey’ remains timeless, while Van Morrison’s powerful vocal and impassioned sax complement the bluesy guitar on ‘Greenback Dollar’. The album closes with ‘Green Rocky Road’, a plaintive folk gem and an ode to the troubadour life that was made famous by Fred Neil and Dave Van Ronk, and featured in the film ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’.

Key contributors on the album include Dave Keary (guitars), Pete Hurley (bass), Colin Griffin (drums) and Sticky Wicket (washboard). Current Brit folk favourite Seth Lakeman also contributes fiddle to five songs.


A1. Freight Train
A2. Careless Love
A3. Sail Away Ladies
A4. Streamline Train
A5. Take This Hammer
B1. No Other Baby
B2. Gypsy Davy
B3. This Loving Light Of Mine
B4. In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down
B5. Yonder Comes A Sucker
B6. Travelin' Blues

C1. Gov Don't Allow
C2. Come On In
C3. Streamlined Cannonball
C4. Greenback Dollar
C5. Oh Lonesome Me
C6. I Wish I Was An Apple On A Tree
C7. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
D1. I'm Movin' On
D2. Cold Cold Heart
D3. Worried Man Blues
D4. Cotton Fields
D5. Green Rocky Road


DOUBLE LP  
Recording Artist Van Morrison
Product Title Moving On Skiffle - Sealed
Product Information Van Morrison Moving On Skiffle - Sealed UK 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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