Van Morrison: Pay the Devil
CML call number: CD/COUNTRY/Morrison
Contents: There Stands the Glass, Half as Much, Things Have Gone to Pieces, Big Blue Diamonds, Playhouse (Morrison), Your Cheatin' Heart, Don't You Make Me High, My Bucket's Got a Hole in It, Back Street Affair, Pay the Devil (Morrison), What Am I Living For?, This Has Got to Stop (Morrison), Once a Day, More and More, Till I Gain Control Again.
Gavin Edwards wrote in Rolling Stone: "How polished is Van Morrison's brand of musical mysticism? On last year's Magic Time, he sang a list of smutty British films and made it sound like cosmic wisdom. After forty years of astral moods, Morrison seems to have realized that his talent for elevating the everyday into the profound would serve him well in country music. So when he sings 'My Bucket's Got a Hole in It,' he finds the same fertile territory that Hank Williams Sr. did, balancing between a quotidian complaint and Sisyphean dread. Pay the Devil … contains twelve covers of classic country songs, from 'Things Have Gone to Pieces' to 'Your Cheatin' Heart,' and three new compositions that work well right beside them" (3/9/06, p. 90).
Contents: There Stands the Glass, Half as Much, Things Have Gone to Pieces, Big Blue Diamonds, Playhouse (Morrison), Your Cheatin' Heart, Don't You Make Me High, My Bucket's Got a Hole in It, Back Street Affair, Pay the Devil (Morrison), What Am I Living For?, This Has Got to Stop (Morrison), Once a Day, More and More, Till I Gain Control Again.
Gavin Edwards wrote in Rolling Stone: "How polished is Van Morrison's brand of musical mysticism? On last year's Magic Time, he sang a list of smutty British films and made it sound like cosmic wisdom. After forty years of astral moods, Morrison seems to have realized that his talent for elevating the everyday into the profound would serve him well in country music. So when he sings 'My Bucket's Got a Hole in It,' he finds the same fertile territory that Hank Williams Sr. did, balancing between a quotidian complaint and Sisyphean dread. Pay the Devil … contains twelve covers of classic country songs, from 'Things Have Gone to Pieces' to 'Your Cheatin' Heart,' and three new compositions that work well right beside them" (3/9/06, p. 90).
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