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Tupelo Honey is an album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1971. The album yielded two hit singles, the hymn-like title track, as well as the R&B-flavored "Wild Night".
The namesake for the album is a varietal honey produced from the flowers of the tupelo tree found in the Southeastern United States.
The original LP was released in a gatefold sleeve. The cover photograph showed Janet Planet, Morrison's then wife, riding bareback on a horse, with Morrison walking alongside. The gatefold and back cover photographs showed Morrison perched upon the fence of the horse's paddock, with his wife standing to his right and a black-and-white kitten on the fence to his left. It was an album of rural, domestic bliss, although the marriage ended within a few years.
The vocals on the album were always live after rehearsing each song five or six times, according to saxophonist Boots Houston. The only overdubbing consisted of backing vocals and horns.
The January 29, 2008 reissued and remastered version of the album contains an alternative take of "Wild Night" and a reworked cover version of the traditional song, "Down By the Riverside".All songs by Van Morrison.
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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.
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On the back cover of the album sleeve is printed a poem with Van Morrison's signature. The poem obviously written to his then-wife Janet Planet ends with the lines:
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Moondance is the third solo album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1970. The style blends R & B, country rock, and even jazz (most obviously on the title track). Moondance peaked at #29 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart and the hit single released, "Come Running" peaked at #39 on the Pop Singles chart.
