On the Road Again Bass Cover
| Down the Road | ||||
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| Studio album by Van Morrison | ||||
| Released | 14 May 2002 | |||
| Recorded | Autumn 2000 – September 2001 | |||
| Studio | Wool Hall, Bathroom, Somerset, England | |||
| Genre | Celtic stone, blues, R&B | |||
| Length | 67:09 | |||
| Characterization | Universal | |||
| Producer | Van Morrison | |||
| Van Morrison chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Down the Road | ||||
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Down the Road is the twenty-ninth studio anthology by Northern Irish singer Van Morrison (meet 2002 in music). The album has a nostalgic tone, lyrically and musically, and its arrangements mix R&B and dejection with state and folk, and with a few exceptions, like "Georgia on My Mind," the music is most ofttimes rooted in 1950s and early on 1960s popular music.
The album charted at #vi in the UK and #26 in the US, while consistently charting in the pinnacle xx across Europe.
Recording [edit]
The album was originally recorded with vocaliser and pianist Linda Gail Lewis within a month of the release of You Win Once more. It was originally entitled Choppin' Wood,[1] simply Morrison re-recorded it, removing Linda Gail Lewis' contributions to the songs and deleting other songs from the anthology. Morrison recorded some other 9 songs to the anthology in late 2001 and retitled it Down the Road.[ii] The songs that were included were increased from an original ten to fifteen tracks and a lengthy sixty-seven minutes. One of the original songs, "Just Similar Greta", that was not included on the album would announced on Morrison's 2005 release Magic Time, without a rerecording. It was finished past year'south terminate in 2001 and released later numerous delays.[1]
Composition [edit]
The songs on the album lean towards the dejection the singer listened to in his youth. The title runway was originally entitled "Downwardly the Road I Go" and was first recorded in 1981 with guitarist Marker Knopfler.[3] The song was so re-recorded with Linda Gail Lewis in November 2000 with additional lyrics. "Choppin' Forest" is a tribute to the singer's father, George Morrison, who had died suddenly from a heart attack more than a decade earlier.[4] In "The Beauty of the Days Gone Past", Morrison attempts to come to terms with approaching old age. In the song "Any Happened to P.J. Proby?" Morrison refers to musicians P. J. Proby and Scott Walker and makes political references to Screaming Lord Sutch, the former leader of the British Monster Raving Loony Party, who died in 1999. In the second verse of the song Morrison claims that he
Don't have no frame of reference no more
Not even Screaming Lord Sutch
Without him now there's no Raving Loony Party
Present I guess there's not much
Reception [edit]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [5] |
| The Music Box | [half dozen] |
| Popular Matters | (favorable)[7] |
| Rolling Stone | [eight] |
| ShakingThrough.internet | (iv.two/5)[9] |
Down the Road was commercially and critically i of Morrison'due south most successful albums. It charted higher in the U.S. than any of Morrison'southward albums since 1972's Saint Dominic's Preview.
John Metzger of The Music Box wrote, "every few years, Morrison manages to tap into some magical infinite that sums upward both his career and his influence in 1 vicious swoop ... not that they're all that groundbreaking, they're just penultimate pieces of perfection. Such is the instance with his latest about-masterpiece Downwards the Route, which finds him fondly recalling the folk, blues, and jazz to which he grew upwards listening."[ten]
Pop Matters critic John Kriecbergs stated in his review: "Bolstered by withal another outstanding collection of backing musicians, ... Down the Route rivals some of Morrison's strongest work."[xi]
Embrace [edit]
The album cover depicts the front end of a record store with a window total of LP covers by dejection, R&B, jazz, and old rock & roll artists, a deliberate blueprint of the album'south influences. The shop pictured was a existent record store, Nashers Music Store in Walcot Street, Bathroom, UK, specially dressed for the photograph-shoot.
Track listing [edit]
All songs past Van Morrison except as indicated.
- "Down the Route" – four:fifteen
- "Meet Me in the Indian Summertime" – 3:57
- "Steal My Heart Away" – 4:20
- "Hey Mr. DJ" – 3:45
- "Talk Is Cheap" – four:nineteen
- "Choppin' Forest" – 3:26
- "What Makes the Irish gaelic Middle Beat" – 3:47
- "All Work and No Play" – iv:51
- "Whatever Happened to P.J. Proby?" – 3:13
- "The Dazzler of the Days Gone By" – 5:45
- "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) – five:35
- "Only a Dream" – 4:57
- "Human Has to Struggle" – 5:07
- "Evening Shadows" (Acker Bilk, Morrison) – 4:01
- "Fast Train" – 5:01
Personnel [edit]
Musicians [edit]
- Van Morrison – acoustic guitar, harmonica, alto saxophone, vocals
- John Allair – Hammond organ
- Crawford Bell – background vocals
- Olwin Bell – background vocals
- Acker Bilk – clarinet
- Richard Dunn – piano, Hammond organ
- Lee Goodall – tenor, alto and baritone saxophones, flute, background vocals
- Mick Green – audio-visual and electrical guitars
- Colin Griffin – drums
- Karen Hamill – background vocals
- David Hayes – bass guitar, double bass
- Matt Kingdom of the netherlands – trumpet, flugelhorn, background vocals
- Pete Hurley – bass guitar
- Bobby Irwin – drums
- Bob Loveday – violin
- Siobhan Pettit – background vocals
- Johnny Scott – electrical guitar, background vocals
- Fiachra Trench – piano
- Jake Walker – viola
- Geraint Watkins – piano, Hammond organ
- Rosie Wetters – cello, string section leader
- Aine Whelan – background vocals
- Martin Winning – clarinet, tenor saxophone
Production [edit]
- Van Morrison – producer
- Stuart Bruce – engineer
- Tim Cooper – mastering
- Walter Samuel – engineer, mixing
- Ben Sidran – liner notes
- Peter Thorpe – photography
- Johnny Scott, Aine Whelan – vocal organisation
- Fiachra Trench – string arrangement
Charts [edit]
Album [edit]
UK Album Chart (Great britain)
| Year | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | U.k. Album Chart | 6 |
Billboard (N America)
| Twelvemonth | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | The Billboard 200 | 25 |
| Chart (2002) | Height position |
|---|---|
| Norway | five |
| Sweden | ten |
| Italy | 20 |
| Australia | 7 |
| Netherlands | 13 |
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Certifications [edit]
Notes [edit]
- ^ a b Heylin. Tin You Experience the Silence? p493
- ^ Heylin. Can You Experience the Silence? p529
- ^ Heylin. Tin can You Feel the Silence? p523
- ^ Rogan. No Give up. p21
- ^ Ruhlmann, William. "allmusic review". allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
- ^ Metzger, John. "The Music Box review". musicbox-online.com. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
- ^ Kreicbergs, John (12 June 2002). "Pop Matters review". popmatters.com. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
- ^ Fricke, David (nine May 2002). "Rolling Rock review". rollingstone.com. Archived from the original on 23 November 2007. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
- ^ Station, Laurence (27 May 2002). "ShakingThrough.cyberspace review". shakingthrough.net. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
- ^ "Van Morrison:Down the Road". musicbox-online.com. Retrieved eight August 2008.
- ^ "Van Morrison:Downwardly the Road". popmatters.com. Retrieved 9 August 2008.
- ^ Australian charts
- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2002 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved iii June 2019.
- ^ "British album certifications – Van Morrison – Down the Route". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
References [edit]
- Heylin, Clinton (2003). Can Yous Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography, Chicago Review Press, ISBN 1-55652-542-7
- Rogan, Johnny (2006). Van Morrison: No Surrender, London: Vintage Books ISBN 978-0-09-943183-1
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_the_Road_(Van_Morrison_album)
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