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VAN MORRISON - LIVE - THE PERFORMANCES

2006-09-15

Claude Biaget		 1h37m50s

Austin City Limits Music Festival

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Back On Top has now been played 364 times as a stand-alone song since its first appearance on 23FEB1998
New to the previous show.

Big Blue Diamonds has now been played 33 times as a stand-alone song since its first appearance on 10DEC2005
New to the previous show.

Playhouse has now been played 57 times as a stand-alone song since its first appearance on 11DEC2005
Played at a different position from the previous show.

Days Like This has now been played 387 times as a stand-alone song since its first appearance on 26MAY1994
New to the previous show.

Muleskinner Blues has now been played 111 times as a stand-alone song since its first appearance on 02OCT1995
New to the previous show.

In The Midnight has now been played 186 times as a stand-alone song since its first appearance on 02MAR1999
New to the previous show.

Bright Side Of The Road has now been played 425 times as a stand-alone song since its first appearance on 15MAY1979
New to the previous show.

Cleaning Windows has now been played 536 times as a stand-alone song since its first appearance on 27JUL1981

I Can't Stop Loving You has now been played 96 times as a stand-alone song since its first appearance on 21JUN1977
Played at a different position from the previous show.

Don't You Make Me High has now been played 16 times as a stand-alone song since its first appearance on 02MAR2006
New to the previous show.

Real Real Gone > You Send Me has now been played 30 times as a medley in this combination of songs since its first appearance on 30APR1994
New to the previous show.

Saint James Infirmary has now been played 102 times as a stand-alone song since its first appearance on 22FEB2001
Played at a different position from the previous show.

Moondance has now been played 729 times as a stand-alone song since its first appearance on 08NOV1969
New to the previous show.

It's All In The Game > You Know What They're Writing About has now been played 136 times as a medley in this combination of songs since its first appearance on 23AUG1979
New to the previous show.

Precious Time has now been played 480 times as a stand-alone song since its first appearance on 16MAR1998
New to the previous show.

Don't Start Crying Now > Custard Pie has now been played 10 times as a medley in this combination of songs since its first appearance on 15AUG2003
New to the previous show.

Wild Night has now been played 108 times as a stand-alone song since its first appearance on 00MAY1970
Played at a different position from the previous show.

Brown Eyed Girl has now been played 495 times as a stand-alone song since its first appearance on 28MAR1967
Played at a different position from the previous show.

Gloria has now been played 619 times as a stand-alone song since its first appearance on 17APR1964
Overall closing shows 854 times.

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John T. Davis
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It is one small measure of Van Morrison’s longevity that the last time I saw him was 27-odd years ago at the inevitably-referred-to “late-lamented” Armadillo World Headquarters. Back then, he stayed over and played a night for free, so enamored he was of the ‘Dillo’s shrimp enchiladas. Someone on hand recalled him swinging from the door lintel of the dressing room, lost in simple bliss. Since then he has put out a score of albums reflecting every prismatic nuance of blues, soul, Celtic gospel, rock and (most lately) country.
Now, three decades later, Van the Man was back in town, as natty as a Martin Scorcese gangster in a suit coat, tinted glasses and a pale fedora. (The illusion was not confined to the stage. A cadre of motorcycle cops and dark limos came sweeping through backstage. I thought for a crazy moment that Charles Attal and Charlie Jones had gone into the funeral business. But of course, it was Morrison and his entourage.)
“Was he always this laid-back?” asked a young fan, who was hoping to hear “Caravan.” Well - yes and no. What might have sounded “laid-back” registered to these ears as smoldering intensity; the precise focus of a master of the game who doesn’t need to squander his focus and energy to achieve a transcendent effect.
Beginning with a tongue-in-groove rendition of “Back On Top,” Morrison wound in and out of his current predilection, country music, as reflected in his latest album, “Pay the Devil.” The Jerry Lee Lewis-weeper “Big Blue Diamonds” shared stage time with a countrypolitan-perfect take on “I Can’t Stop Loving You.” But it is part of Morrison’s gift to segue from country to Muscle Shoals-style soul (“It’s All in the Game”) to swampy blues (he pulled out the sax for “St. James Infirmary”) to the Muhammad Ali rock ‘n’ roll combination of “Brown Eyed Girl,” “Wild Night” and “Gloria.”
There is, however, one moment that lingers. Far back in the crowd, a quarter-mile from the stage, a little kid stared in wonderment as all the grown-ups around him rose to their feet and began swaying and singing in unison. He probably didn’t know there was a guy onstage with the improbable name of Van Morrison singing a song called “Brown Eyed Girl.” It hardly mattered. The song still has the power to engender the same sense of wonder and delight in children today as it did in their parents. And, if everything works out just right, that youngster may tell his kids about sitting in a field on a late summer night listening to Van Morrison sing.
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