Pages tagged “Keep It Simple”

• • Decrease
  • Reset
  • Increase
  resize
• print
• send

Van Morrison: Keep It Simple

Van Morrison got the name right for his new album. He isn’t sailing into the mystic, or listening to the lion, or seeking hymns to the silence. He’s looking to spend three-to-six minutes throwing some rhymes around, nailing a couple of clichés, sprinkling them with organ-based blues and a few nods toward Hank Williams and calling it a day. When he does decide to stretch to the seven-minute mark for the album’s closer, “Behind the Ritual,” his mantra consists of slurring variations on “drinking wine” and “blah, blah, blah.” But, while the album falls short of transcendence, it still has...  read more