Van morrison astral weeks live8/10/2023 ![]() Is there another album in the canon so haunted by the specter of maturity, so obsessed with a return to the lost springs of creation? “And I will stroll the merry way and jump the hedges first/ And I will drink the clear clean water for to quench my thirst/ And I will never grow so old again.” Morrison had read no William Blake when he delivered these lines (the poetical-mystical immersions of his middle period were still to come), which perhaps accounts for their authentically Blakeian atmosphere: Astral Weeks was this displaced 23-year-old Irishman’s Songs Of Innocence & Experience. In the case of Van Morrison and Astral Weeks-last year’s reperformance of which has just been released as Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl-there would seem to be even more on the line than usual. What are you doing out there, exactly? You could be burnishing your masterpiece or flogging a dead horse. (Would Iggy Pop do it, for God’s sake? Oh-he already did.) And then rather risky too, by a paradox. ![]() Totally un-rock ’n’ roll, for starters, to be casting this fond retrospective gaze upon one’s own work. Still, let’s not become inured to the oddness of it.
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