Skiffle was the sound that launched a generation of British musicians, Lonnie Donegan its unlikely prophet, and a young Van Morrison absorbed all of it growing up in Belfast before channeling it into the raw early work that would eventually lead him to "Astral Weeks" and beyond. Returning to these roots at this stage of his career feels less like nostalgia than excavation, Morrison digging back to the bedrock of what made him a musician in the first place. Several decades after his childhood hangouts in famed Belfast record store Atlantic Records, Van Morrison revisits his love of the genre with his new album Moving on Skiffle. Launching with lead single "Streamline Train," the 23-track album takes a homemade style that exploded across Britain in the mid-1950s and infuses it with sophistication, soulfulness, and an underlying message on the importance of freedom and living on your own terms, his lifetime philosophy. 2 CD Tracklist 1. Freight Train (3:27) 2. Careless Love (5:38) 3. Sail Away Ladies (3:18) 4. Streamline Train (4:03) 5. Take This Hammer (4:38) 6. No Other Baby (4:30) 7. Gypsy Davy (4:18) 8. This Loving Light Of Mine (5:11) 9. In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down (4:25) 10. Yonder Comes A Sucker (3:11) 11. Travelin' Blues (3:45) 12. Gov Don't Allow (4:11) 13. Come On In (3:39) 14. Streamlined Cannonball (3:16) 15. Greenback Dollar (3:43) 16. Oh Lonesome Me (3:25) 17. I Wish I Was An Apple On A Tree (3:14) 18. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (3:04) 19. I'm Movin' On (2:58) 20. Cold Cold Heart (3:26) 21. Worried Man Blues (4:38) 22. Cotton Fields (3:07) 23. Green Rocky Road (9:02) UPC: 602448191410Label: ExileRelease Date: 3.10.23Format: CD
