Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey
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Artist: Van MorrisonEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1997-06-03
Music Label: Polydor / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- Wild Night
- (Straight To Your Heart) Like A Cannon Ball
- Old Old Woodstock
- Starting A New Life
- You're My Woman
- Tupelo Honey
- I Wanna Roo You (Scottish Derivative)
- When That Evening Sun Goes Down
- Moonshine Whiskey
Free Music Notes for Tupelo Honey
Free Music Review: Outstanding
Hit: 5 Stars
1971's Tupelo Honey is an excellent work, upbeat, celebratory even, possessing a great single and a great closer, though not quite on the level of Astral Weeks. But so what? The man made his masterpiece, and Honey is as good as second-rate work can be. "Wild Night," despite having been heard a million times, is still infectious, still grooves, and its classic status is deserved. The second track, "(Straight to Your Heart) Like a Cannonball" follows in the soul rave-up line, but "Old Old Woodstock" changes gears marevelously, a pastoral, perfectly constructed and played, slightly jazzy folk song, totally fresh, totally Van. The centerpiece, maybe the best thing Van has done, is the title track, "Tupelo Honey." A great love song, on a record that is basically itself a love song..."I Wanna Roo You" is basically a Dylan knock-off, nothing wrong with that, but looks pretty minor on this particular record, and When that Evening Sun Goes Down" is another upbeat, wholly pleasant song, but at this point we may feel that "Tupelo Honey" should have been sequenced at the end of the record, as the two songs immediately following it cannot be totally appreciated and give the impression of slightness. But the closer picks the album back up and ends it in a marvelous flouish of genre-hopping and energy, wherein Van does no less than promise to "promanade down funky Broadway 'til the cows come home" and provides Shane McGowan with material two decades later wherein "Ohh...she gives me Moonshine Whiskey ohh she gives me Southern love" becomes "Ohh...she give me Mekong whiskey, ohh she gives me Hong Kong flu." Alright.
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Van Morrison's "Caledonia soul"--his unique blend of Irish mysticism and spiritual questing, literary allusion and blue-eyed R&B--can be as beautiful and deeply emotional as any music ever made. That's certainly the case on 1971's Tupelo Honey, one of the finest albums of Morrison's long career. Kicking off with the classic "Wild Night," Tupelo Honey is as completely joyous as the normally bitter Van gets, particularly on the title track and the unabashedly grateful, slow-building "You're My Woman," both among the most moving love songs he's recorded. --David CantwellInternational Music CDs
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