The life of a songbird is brief. Perhaps that is why each one must sing, sing as they pass swiftly through this world of wind, whistle and woe, circling through the heavens, lighting on trees, nesting, then moving once again in constant migration just above the earth. Their rest is only in death and of [...]

To say that Van Morrison is a pioneer of  ”mystic soul” music is inaccurate. There has been no other songwriter like him who has ventured into the unconscious as deeply and come up with pure gold. Even Van himself —as the years have gone by—has seemed to identify himself more with the simplistic earthiness of [.