Van Morrison - Keep It Simple flac album

Keep It Simple is a mantra for Van Morrison, as he stripped his music down to the bare basics years ago and then comfortably rode that groove, comprised in equal parts of blues, soul, jazz, and country. Van has been riding this groove so long that it's hard to pinpoint exactly when he settled into it, but looking back, things started to shift in the mid-'90s, as understated R&B rhythms took precedence and he started to punctuate them with country songs (or in the case of Pay the Devil, an entire LP of country. Despite his new label Lost Highway's insistence that the fact this is his first album of all-original material since 1999's Back on Top, Keep It Simple doesn't feel all that different than the records since 1999, either in its feel or in structure, nor does it help that Van's songs play with older tunes, both in their lyrics.

Accordion – Geraint WatkinsBass – Paul MooreDrums – Neal WilkinsonGuitar – Mick GreenVocals, Ukulele – Van Morrison. Backing Vocals – Crawford Bell, Karen Hamill, Katie KissoonBass – David HayesDrums – Neal WilkinsonGuitar – John PlataniaGuitar, Backing Vocals – Ned EdwardsOrgan – John AllairPercussion – Liam BradleyVocals – Van Morrison.

Keep It Simple was the 35th LP which Van Morrison had produced himself and the first in several years in which he penned all 11 songs specifically for one album. He told Today: "Its got elements of blues, folk, gospel all my influences - Curtis Mayfield. It's got a lot of inspiration from various things I was inspired by out there, but it comes out like a new album.

Van Morrison discography. Van Morrison discography. One of the songs was "Brown Eyed Girl" which charted at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Since then he has been on the Billboard album chart a total of 787 weeks by April 2008 (including the Them albums); a period of almost 43 years when his 33rd solo studio album Keep It Simple debuted at No. 10. on the Billboard 20. .

Keep It Simple is the thirty-third solo studio album recorded by Northern Irish singer/songwriter Van Morrison His previous studio album Pay the Devil was also released on the Lost Highway label, in March 2006. The album debuted at No. 10 on the US, UK and Canada charts and No. 7 on European Top 100 Albums. In an interview on BBC Radio Four on 10 March 2008, Morrison spoke of his inspiration for the songs on the album: "It's got elements of blues, folk, gospel - all my influences.

Keep It Simple finds him looking back on his sixty-two years, filled with longing - for home, for deliverance from the world’s demands, for spiritual transcendence. He boasts of surviving the School of HardKnocks, wryly chronicles a newfound sobriety in the aging roust about’s lament Don’t Go to Nightclubs Anymore and sails into the mystic on the album closer, Behind the Ritual. Typically, the band settles into a comfortable groove while Morrison lifts off into the trancelike realm he calls entrainment.

Artist: Van Morrison. Album: Keep It Simple. Mocked me when it got out of hand Nobody tried to understand Now we got to keep it simple and that's that. Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand And straight reality is always cold Saying something hard edged is off the wall And it just might be too bold. Well, I'm down here on the running board Where I've been many times before But we got to keep it simple to save ourselves. Mocked me when I tried to get back Said the train was completely off the track And we got to get back to something simple to save ourselves

This song is by Van Morrison and appears on the album Keep It Simple (2008). They mocked me when I was singing the songsTrying to get back to something more simple than we have in my dream 'Cos I told it like it was. Wrote about disappointment and greedWrote about what we really didn't need in our livesMake us feel alive and whole. Illusions and pipe dreams on the one handAnd straight reality is always coldSaying something hard edged is off the wallAnd it might seem too bold.