Keep It Simple is the thirty-third solo studio album recorded by Northern Irish singer/songwriter Van Morrison. It was released on March 17, 2008 by Exile Productions Ltd./Polydor in the U.K.. and on the Lost Highway Records label on April 01, 2008 in the U.S.. His last studio album Pay the Devil was also released on the Lost Highway label in March 2006.
This is the first studio album of all new original material since his 1999 album Back on Top. Other albums released since then have contained some cover songs. The May 2005 album, Magic Time was comprised of 10 originals and 3 cover songs.
Morrison wrote all eleven songs featured on the album and has been quoted as saying: "I felt I had something to say with these songs."
The album features most of the various genres that Morrison has been influenced by such as jazz, folk, blues, celtic, country, soul and gospel.
In an interview on BBC Four Radio on March 10, 2008, Morrison spoke of his inspiration for the songs on the album: "Its got elements of blues, folk, gospel all my influences - Curtis Mayfield. Its got a lot of inspiration from various things I was inspired by out there but it comes out like a new album."
On it's first week of release the album reached #10 on the U.S. charts, which is Morrison's highest placement ever in the U.S..His sixth solo album, Saint Dominic's Preview charted at #15 in 1972.
Track Listing
All songs by Van Morrison
- "How Can a Poor Boy" - 5:43
- "School of Hard Knocks" - 3:44
- "That's Entrainment" - 4:32
- "Don't Go to Nightclubs Anymore" - 4:31
- "Lover Come Back" - 5:15
- "Keep It Simple" - 3:34
- "End of the Land" - 3:16
- "Song of Home" - 4:13
- "No Thing" - 4:31
- "Soul" - 3:37
- "Behind the Ritual" - 6:59
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