![]() It can certainly be interesting to consider how these songs were put together, but the interplay between Morrison and the band doesn’t become amazing if it was created simultaneously or was the result of the band working to his recorded voice and guitar it’s just different kinds of amazing. Astral Weeks is the unrepeatable, mystical masterwork, while His Band and the Street Choir is the grittier, more unassuming showcase for Morrison’s love of R&B in its most ingratiating form.Īstral Weeks is one of those albums where the story of its creation is as nearly well known as the music itself recorded under semi-mysterious circumstances, with spotty credits and John Cale (working next door) reporting, possibly accurately, that much of the album was Morrison recording on his own and the rest of the band assembled for the sessions doing overdubs. Which makes special sense in this case, as these two are almost opposites in Morrison’s long, rich catalogue of work. They are both better than their middle sibling Moondance, at its best, offers as close as possible to a synthesis of the strengths of these two, but like most such hybrids, it can’t go as far as either. In a way it’s weirdly fitting that 1968’s Astral Weeks and 1970’s His Band and the Street Choir, released before and after Morrison’s biggest commercial triumph Moondance, are being reissued together. ![]()
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