Van Morrison says he spent much of his career making albums “under duress,” only recently rediscovering his love of recording new music. His latest release, October’s Three Chords & the Truth, is ...

Although he could from the start deliver fierce blue-eyed rhythm and blues with a visceral force that put Mick Jagger and Eric Burdon to shame, he was always as much at ease in cooler and more ...

It hasn't taken Van Morrison long to follow up his latest album. Just two months after the release of his latest LP, Morrison has announced his 38th record, Versatile, which is due Dec. 1. The new ...

Stylistically, it’s a kind of tribute to the genres he’s mined over the years. There’s bluesy harmonica and piano on “Going Down to Bangor”, while a Hammond squeals tastefully on “Calendonia Swing”.

A propitious return to Blue Note Records, Born to Sing: No Plan B is one of the most inspired and accessible albums of singer/songwriter Van Morrison's storied career. It would not be appropriate or ...

Van Morrison is arguably one of the greatest solo musicians to come from the United Kingdom. On Friday, he released a new album, You’re Driving Me Crazy. The record is a collaboration with Joey ...

Long before he found fame as a solo star and frontman for R&B group Them, Van Morrison's key musical trajectory was shaped by ...

Van Morrison has shared the title track from his new double album, Latest Record Project: Volume 1, set to arrive May 7th via Exile/BMG. “Latest Record Project” is a cheeky bit of classic yet ...

Few long-term recording artists remain as enigmatic as Van Morrison. The Belfast, Northern Ireland-born creator of countless classic albums and songs is notoriously media-wary and prefers to focus his ...

The casual listener who marvels at the apparent distance Van Morrison covered between "Brown Eyed Girl" and the moody mystical atmosphere of the next year's Astral Weeks (Warner Bros., 1968) will no ...

As Van Morrison's songwriting has gotten more and more literal in recent years, his songs have become increasingly inane, like the crabby complaints of a tired, rich old man. Of course, his gruff, ...

Van Morrison unveiled a tender new blues ballad “Dark Night of the Soul,” from his upcoming album, Three Chords and the Truth, out October 25th. “Dark Night of the Soul” boasts a vintage mid-tempo ...