The Ballad of Virus Van and COVID Clapton
Van Morrison is a cranky old man, and that’s okay. Eric Clapton is a crappy old racist, and that’s not okay.
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Van Morrison
LISTEN: Van the Man is 75
Celebrating this birthday milestone for Irish rock icon Van Morrison with a stroll through an essential fraction of his catalog
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Dion’s American Tune
On Blues With Friends, Mr. DiMucci enters his seventh decade in rock with a gang of famous pals
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Stranger Things: Randy Newman’s 12 Songs Turns 50
A quarter century before meeting Woody and Buzz, the L.A. songwriter walked the razor’s edge of sarcasm on his second studio LP
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Between The Viaducts Of Your Dream
Astral Weeks Turns 50
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Wild, Wild, Wild Life
Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis on their excellent new collaborative LP
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Rock’s Forgotten Forefather
Out now on DVD, a poignant documentary delves into the workingman genius of Bert Berns
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Van Morrison’s Fifty-Year-Old War on the Music Business
It takes a special kind of hate to write 31 songs for the sole purpose of torching your record label. Van Morrison has always hated the record industry. His catalogue, from a long and storied career – which has included stints with Polydor, Virgin, Blue Note, EMI, RCA, Caroline, Parrot, and long runs with Warner Brothers and Mercury – is sprinkled with songs complaining about the music business – “Drumshambo
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