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Pay the Devil
Van Morrison List Price: $13.98 Our Price: $9.76
Audio CD - 07 March, 2006
Lost Highway
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CD Tracks:
There Stands The Glass
Half As Much
Things Have Gone To Pieces
Big Blue Diamonds
Playhouse
Your Cheatin' Heart
Don't You Make Me High
My Buckets Got A Hole In It
Back Street Affair
Pay The Devil
What Am I Living For
This Has Got To Stop
Once A Day
More and More
Till I Gain Control Again
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| Audio CD Description With stunning album-length explorations of jazz and 1950s acoustic skiffle and a country-rockabilly collaboration with Linda Gail Lewis behind him, Van Morrison continues exploring classic country with compelling reinterpretations of standards from the 1950s to the 1970s. He reaches back over half a century for Hank Williams Sr.'s "Half As Much," "Your Cheatin' Heart," and "My Bucket's Got a Hole in It" and Webb Pierce's landmark honky-tonk hits "Back Street Affair," "There Stands the Glass," and "More and More." Moving to the mid-'60s, he capably explores George Jones's "Things Have Gone to Pieces" and Connie Smith's "Once a Day." The 1970s are his limit, however, as he probes Rodney Crowell's "'Til I Gain Control Again." Three Morrison originals blend nicely into this mix, as do two non-country favorites: Chuck Willis's "What Am I Living For" and a gleeful spin on Blue Lu Barker's 1938 jazzy, single-entendre favorite "Don't You Make Me High." Recorded in Ireland with uncluttered hard-country backing, |
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Belfast Cowboy Rides Full spectrum "country", from the humorous ("Don't You Feel My Leg") to the heart-rending ("Till I Gain Control Again") to parody of country music heartache lists ("Things Have Gone to Pieces") to anger with a backbeat ("This Has Got To Stop") to Hank Williams ("Half as Much") to rockabilly ("My Bucket's Got a Hole in It"). Like a lot of Van's albums, this music gets in your head and grows with time. The voice-as-instrument sounds like blasts from a well-payed horn. And speaking of playing, one of the benefits of being a Van Morrison fan is the perfection he demands of his backing musicians. This excellent band has more of a Bob Wills "roots" country feel, with some killer fiddle. I usually play my CD's on random play in a 200 disk changer, but this one I play front to back frequently since I bought it. Probably too subtle in its musical merits for the average country fan.
AWESOME I've been listening to Van for more years than I care to remember. This is a great cd. I don't think there isn't aything he can't sing. Great selection of songs. I'm not a big country music fan, but I could listen to this all day long.
Country re-visited, poor mastering I bought this one immediately after "Magic Time". 5 stars for Van's musical added-personality as it comes of those country classics, though minus one star for the CD mastering. His voice is too "in front" and my speakers shout at me. Probably this is the reason of some one-star reviews.
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