Van Morrison - Down the Road

After spending much of the 1990s expressing his bitterness with the modern world in albums like Hymns To The Silence and Days Like This, Van Morrison sought to overcome his bile toward the end of the decade, declaring himself Back On Top by 1999. (His fans concurred; the album was his highest-charting effort in more than 20 years and earned a gold record.) He then took an uncharacteristically long three years to make a new original album, though he produced two side projects, the live Skiffle Sessions: Live In Belfast 1998 and You Win Again, a duet record with Linda Gail Lewis, in between. Read More