Van Morrison – Brighton, England (07/05/15)

VAN MORRISON
‘Blues and Boogie Special’
Interview with David Freeman
Jazz FM

Recorded July 5th 2015
Brighton, England

Van Morrison joins David Freeman for a special interview on the Blues and Boogie show
broadcast live from Love Supreme festival in Glynde. Two hours of great blues music with
insight from Van Morrison as he charts his blues roots from Lead Belly, Lonnie Donegan
and Chris Barber through to Muddy Waters, B.B. King and more.

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July 2015

2 thoughts on “Van Morrison – Brighton, England (07/05/15)”

Remember listening to this broadcast at the time. Sounded good through my headphones strolling in the park..Of course it isn’t particularly enlightening (as always with Van’s interviews) as he rarely feels the need to go beyond the direct subject matter of the question and never volunteers any kind of expansion. His revered status and ‘defensive’ reputation tends to lead to interviewers adopting a conservative approach. This example from the excellent David Freeman and his equally good Blues ‘n’ Boogie program is no exception.

In addition, for an artist who regularly produces covers and interpretations to (at least) rival the originals, his choice of material is bizarrely conservative (SB Williamson ‘Help Me’, Sam Cooke ‘You Send Me’ etc etc) and never features anything you wouldn’t find on a single disc ‘Best Of’ . Check the latest album, fancy some John Lee Hooker? How about ‘Dimples’?

Of course this is the downside of many a creative artist and tends to differentiate them from collectors or ‘students’ of their field such as Bob Hite or John Hammond Jr. However it is also a real shame as an album of Van wailing out some lesser known blues and soul minor classics would be one for the ages. It seems that the original Stones business model of simply producing great (though inferior) versions of songs of which the majority are unfamiliar is as rare today as is was 55 years ago. It is also, in my humble opinion, just as likely to succeed.