THIS IS THE 2002 EU ORIGINAL PRESSING on EXILE/ POLYDOR label. SINGLE COVER INNER SLEEVES. The cover is in VG condition: normal wear and without any major deterioration, BUT light discolouration/wear on left spine/corners, mild creases on edges/corners, left spine is readable INNERS in great condition, normal wear please for details see. The vinyls in EX condition barely played .
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VAN MORRISON
Equal parts blue-eyed soul shouter and wild-eyed poet-sorcerer,
Van Morrison is among popular music s true innovators, a restless seeker
whose incantatory vocals and alchemical fusion of R B, jazz, blues, and Celtic folk
produced perhaps the most spiritually transcendent body of work in the rock roll canon.
DOWN THE ROAD
tracklist: please, for tracklist see pictures
2002 2LP EXILE/POLYDOR RECORDS 589 177- 1
MADE IN EUROPE ORIGINAL PRESSING
SINGLE COVER INNER SLEEVES
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: text 7 31458 91771 7
Label Code: none
LABEL: EXILE/ POLYDOR - PHOTO A BLACK B LABEL - WHITE/SILVERTEXT
Catalog on cover: 589 177-1
Other Catalog number on inner sleeve record 1 : LP / 589 786-1 SET:589 177-1
Other Catalog number on inner sleeve record 2 : LP / 589 787-1 SET:589 177-1
Catalog on labels:
DISC ONE: 589 786-1 / DISC TWO: 589 787-1
Matrix / Runout Side A, Etched Stamped : 589-786-1 A JML
Matrix / Runout Side B, Etched Stamped : 589-786-1 B JML
Matrix / Runout Side C, Etched Stamped : 589-787-1 A JML
Matrix / Runout Side D, Etched Stamped : 589-787-1 B JML
On labels: please, for details see dedicated pictures
On Back Cover: Tracklist Credits Notes
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RECORDS EX but please, read above description
SLEEVE VG but please, see pictures and read above description
After spending much of the 1990s expressing his bitterness with the modern world in albums like Hymns to the Silence and Days Like This, Van Morrison sought to overcome his bile toward the end of the decade, declaring himself Back on Top by 1999. His fans concurred the album was his highest-charting effort in more than 20 years and earned a gold record. He then took an uncharacteristically long three years to make a new original album, though he produced two side projects, the live Skiffle Sessions: Live in Belfast 1998 and You Win Again, a duet record with Linda Gail Lewis, in between. Down the Road is not bitter, but it does look to the past continually and with longing. Musically, it mixes R B and jazz with bits of country especially on What Makes the Irish Heart Beat and folk, all conjured from the singer s 1950s youth. Lyrically, it deliberately makes use of blues clich s and catch phrases to tell its tales of struggle, recollection, and regret. The album cover depicts the front of a record store, Music and Memorabilia, with a window full of LP covers by blues, R B, jazz, and old rock roll artists, and the music inside corresponds to that picture, in spirit if not always in style. A key song, and a curious one, is Whatever Happened to PJ Proby?, in which Morrison identifies himself with trendy British pop singers of the early 60s, including Scott Walker and Screaming Lord Sutch. It s hard to imagine that he really thinks he belongs in their company, but he seems both sincere and pained as he concludes, And whatever happened to me? If such humility is sincere, it may help explain why Morrison has rejected the trappings of fame all these years, and it makes him all the more endearing... AllMusic
