Description visibull Store <img src="http://ti2.auctiva.com/web/aswCredit.gif" border="0"><br><a href="http://www.auctiva.com/?how=scLnk0" target="_blank"><img src="http://ti2.auctiva.com/images/sc1line0.gif" border="0"></a> 2009 Listen To The Lion Records live vinyl release. Vinyl plays very good plus; does not skip. Gatefold jacket is whole; top left corner dent; with bar code. Additional Information about Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl by Van Morrison (Feb-2009, Listen to the Lion Records) Portions of this page Copyright 1948 - 2015 Muze Inc. All rights reserved. Album FeaturesUPC:5099969342318Artist:Van MorrisonFormat:2LPRelease Year:2009Record Label:Listen to the Lion RecordsGenre:Rock & Pop, Singer, Singer/Songwriter Track ListingSide 1 1. Astral Weeks - I Believe I've Transcended2. Beside You Side 2 3. Slim Slow Slider/I Start Breaking Down4. Sweet Thing5. The Way Young Lovers Do6. Cyprus Avenue/You Came Walking Down Side 3 7. Ballerina8. Madame George Side 4 9. Listen to the Lion - The Lion Speaks10. Common One11. Gloria (bonus track)DetailsDistributor:EMI Music DistributionRecording Type:LiveRecording Mode:Stereo Album NotesPersonnel: Van Morrison (vocals, guitar, harmonica, Hammond b-3 organ); Sarah Jory, Jay Berliner, John Platania (guitar); Tony Fitzgibbon (violin, viola); Nancy Ellis (violin); Terry Adams, Michael Graham (cello); Richie Buckley (flute, saxophone); Paul Moran (trumpet, harpsichord); Roger Kellaway (piano, grand piano); David Hayes (upright bass); Robbie Ruggiero (drums); John Densmore (tambourine); Bianca Thornton (background vocals).Recording information: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA. In 2008, Van Morrison decided to revisit his classic ASTRAL WEEKS album on the occasion of its 40th birthday by performing it in its entirety at a couple of L.A. concerts. Fortunately, the event was documented for posterity. Accompanied by a band that includes a couple of the original musicians from the ASTRAL WEEKS sessions, Morrison digs as deep into the mystic as ever, stirring up a soulful, all-acoustic mix of folk, rock, and jazz that sounds as ground-breaking now as it must have in 1968. If anything, the years in between have only added to Morrison's vocal gravitas, and allowed the Irish troubadour to to dig even further into these poetic, richly evocative tunes and bring out their innate transcendent qualities.Editorial Reviews3.5 stars out of 5 -- [B]y the time Morrison hits the guttural moans of the bonus track 'Listen to the Lion,' the songs have opened up like a source of eternal life.Blender 4 stars out of 5 -- [T]his is a tour de force, heady, joyful, ambitious, elegiac and -- as with the 1968 original -- unlike anything else.Mojo Morrison uses the performance to breathe new life into the songs with a band that can follow anywhere he leads -- jazz, folk or soul.Billboard 4 stars out of 5 -- [T]he singer is in fine fettle returning to his 1969 triumph following forays into country, blues and Mose Allison-inspired jazz.Down Beat The strings, flute, etc., are all present...The deceptively timeless fluidity induces a wonderful mystic fog... -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 5 -- The album is still like nothing else in rock, a quiet union of breathtaking opposites: Morrison's soul-trance reflections on his early life in Belfast and the tension of the chamber-jazz arrangements.Rolling Stone <div style="text-align:center"><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://mostpopular.sellathon.com/?id=AC248439"><img src="http://www.sellathon.com/Resources/Images/countercredit.gif" border="0"></a></div>