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Van Morrison casts caution to the wind with his $525 ticket prices and conspiracy theory-fueled new songs

(Easy Eye Sound, *** 1/2) "Polk Salad Annie" by Elvis, "Rainy Night in Georgia" by Brook Benton, "Steamy Windows" by Tina Turner — Tony Joe White is probably best-known through others versions of his songs. But the Louisiana-born "Swamp Fox," who died at 75 in 2018, was a mesmerizing performer in his own right. "Smoke From the Chimney" contains nine White guitar-and-voice demos fleshed out by producer Dan Auerbach with his usual stable of Nashville studio aces. The Black Keys frontman does...

I have listened to Van Morrison on and off since his Gloria days with Them. In case you have lost track, he is still recording at age 75. And his most recent production--a 28-song compilation titled Latest Record Project, Vol. 1--has ignited a controversy. First the music, then the controversy. What struck me listening to the album, which I am still working my way through, is how good Van sounds.

(Denis Balibouse/Reuters) A pop genius’s political poetry sets the record straight. Van Morrison’s new three-LP album Latest Record Project, Volume 1 is so radical — so out of fashion, it’s ahead of fashion — that it also recalls the most widely celebrated album from exactly 40 years ago: The Clash’s punk-reggae-rap lollapalooza, their triple LP Sandinista! The Clash’s overt political pop was dedicated to peer-pressure attitudes that define rock-music hipness. Morri...

Bebe Rexha Addresses Upsetting Album Debut, Plus More Chart Feats and Defeats Chris Willman, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail This week’s album chart saw no successful new entries and, in fact, it was so barren of fresh blood that the news has more to do with what didn’t debut well than what did — like Bebe Rexha’s new release, the low numbers for which she boldly took to Twitter to acknowledge. Rexha’s “Better Mistakes” debuted at No. 129 on the Rolling Stone album chart. On the...

Nolte: Van Morrison Is Being Blacklisted for Anti-Media Song 10 May 2021 Van Morrison, the 75-year-old legendary singer-songwriter behind “Moondance,” “Gloria,” “Brown-Eyed Girl,” “Tupelo Honey,” and countless other classics, is being blacklisted for his latest act of WrongThink. If you recall, late last year, Morrison began speaking out against the coronavirus lockdowns, which open states like Texas and Florida have exposed as anti-science. “[T]hose who are shutting down our ...

Van Morrison has a new album out, and the initial reaction is pretty bad. And that’s not even including allegations of anti-Semitism made against him over a song called “They Own the Media.” Since the pandemic hit, the “Brown Eyed Girl” singer-songwriter has been railing against lockdowns aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, putting out a handful of protest songs that courted plenty of controversy. But “Latest Record Project, Vol. 1,” a new two-hour, 28-tr...

They Own the Media: The 10 Craziest Lyrics From Van Morrisons Latest Album Antonio Ferme, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail This week, Van Morrison put the “crazy” in “Crazy Love.” His new release, the double album “Latest Record Project, Vol. 1,” spans over two hours and consists of a series of bizarre rants and blues numbers that criticize millennial culture, Facebook, the mainstream media, psychiatrists, judges and, with no apparent irony, people who bitch. More from Variety Whil...

‘They Own the Media’: The 10 (5) Craziest Lyrics From Van Morrison’s Latest Album ‘They Own The Media’: The 10 Craziest Lyrics From Van Morrison’s Latest Album https://t.co/WdrYzb1gyo— Variety (@Variety) May 8, 2021 You know that guy who sang Brown Eyed Girl? Van Morrison? Well hes still around, except hes not writing songs about girls with brown eyes anymore. Instead his lyrics are a goldmine for conspiracy theorists, as he rants about mind control, Facebook, judges who screwed ...

The Belfast Cowboy goes full white Van man on his bewilderingly silly new album