I put that on this album instead of the previous one because that has a different version of the same song. So most of the songs were geared towards his next album, 'His Band and Street Choir.' I also included a fast version of the song 'Come Running' that was recorded for 'Moondance' in the summer of 1969. Six of the first seven songs were recorded on or around December 1969, after the songs for the classic 'Moodance' album were recorded, but before that album was released (in February 1970). As with that album, I could only do so much, but I think these versions sound better than the popular bootlegs the songs come from, such as 'Gypsy Soul' and 'Van Morrison Gets His Chance to Wail.' Like that album, the vocals were too loud in relation to the instruments for nearly all the songs, so I edited them to bring them more into balance. Both of these albums are about 40 minutes long.Įverything I said about the previous album holds true here. It all comes from one batch of recordings, but I like to break things up into album-sized chunks if I can. This is the continuation of that, with songs from 19. I just posted an album of Van Morrison doing acoustic versions of his songs in a recording studio in 19.
