![]() This fact set into motion what would lead to the creation of Astral Weeks. ![]() One fact, that he was dead broke, having the money earned from his earlier hits “ Gloria” and “ Brown Eyed Girl” swindled away by a callous record label, Bang Records, is true. Much has been written about the album’s creation. This song speaks to some kind of common folk language that transcends boundaries, and a music so deeply realized, that its creation was just a means to show different segments of a singular streaming thought, all of them intertwining towards the same folkloric vision directed to by Van. Most of us will probably never visit the Ireland that Van Morrison is iconizing, but we can hear and imagine the spiritual solipsism inherent in him, and that which he drew from his homeland. No other folk song, or album, has ever had its kind of mystical worldliness. If, you’ve ever heard the album its off of, you’re more than likely already been shrouded with its all-encompassing feeling and uniqueness. My track of the day, “Astral Weeks” by Van Morrison, needs little introduction.
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