Van Morrison - Keep Me Singing (2016) [24.48 FLAC]

  Genre: Blues
  Style: Contemporary Blues
  Source: WEB
  Codec: FLAC
  Bit Rate: ~ 3,000 kbps
  Bit Depth: 24
  Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz

  01 Let It Rhyme 
  02 Every Time I See a River 
  03 Keep Me Singing 
  04 Out in the Cold Again 
  05 Memory Lane 
  06 The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword 
  07 Holy Guardian Angel 
  08 Share Your Love with Me 
  09 In Tiburon 
  10 Look Behind the Hill 
  11 Going Down to Bangor 
  12 Too Late 
  13 Caledonia Swing [Instrumental] 

  Van Morrison does exactly what he wants, when he wants, and continually mines the past no matter the cost. It's been four years since the Celtic soulman issued a collection of original studio material (Born to Sing: No Plan B), but given the music, it could have been yesterday. Morrison has no interest in innovation, he's already done that. The pace here is (mostly) laid-back, the music drenched in jazz, R&B, blues, and classy pop. He revels throughout in an elegant slow burn; his lyric themes are bittersweet, melancholic, filled with emotional and symbolic memory; his longing for the previous prevalent. The first line on album-opener "Let It Rhyme" is: "Throw another coin in the wishing well/Tell everybody to go to hell…" atop skeins of country and R&B as he reveals his recalcitrance. Celtic folk burrows underneath soul in the title track, as a trio of female backing singers, swelling B-3, and a snare undulate beneath his lyrics: "Keep me singing, a new beginning/waiting for my change to come...." A breezy harmonica solo adds a twist, but this tune reflects (musically as well as poetically) the protagonist in "Tore Down à la Rimbaud" from 1985's A Sense of Wonder, who is far down the road, holding stubbornly to a hope he knows (like his countryman Samuel Beckett) will elude him