VAN MORRISON “His Band & Street Choir” LP WB wlp PROMO with timing strip NICE
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Description
Artist: VAN MORRISON
Title: “His Band and the Street Choir”
Label: WARNER BROS. ~ WS 1884. Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl. Label is white with black text, promotional copy.
Condition:
DISC: Vinyl is nice VG+ with full original gloss. Appears to have been played a very small number of times, perhaps once or twice. There are several faint slide lines that produce an isolated soft tic here and there, but no loud clicks, pops, or distracations. Plays very enjoyably with superb fidelity. Labels are clean.
JACKET: Non-laminated gatefold jacket is nice VG+, with no major issues. Front panel has promo timing strip, which has some light traces of ring wear. Light scrape at top of front panel. Some light ring wear on the back. A bit of wear on seams, spine, and corner tips. Inside gatefold is clean and pristine. No writing, stickers, or cutout indications.
Track Listing:
Side One:
- Domino
- Crazy Face
- Give Me a Kiss
- I’ve Been Working
- Call Me Up in Dreamland
- I’ll Be Your Lover Too
Side Two:
- Blue Monkey
- Virgo Clowns
- Sweet Jannie
- Gypsy Queen
- If I Ever Needed Someone
- Street Choir
Review:
“Released in 1970, Van Morrison's Moondance was a hit commercially and critically. Encouraged by his manager, Morrison and a sextet -- including three players from the Moondance sessions -- hit the studio and delivered His Band & the Street Choir in time for that year's holiday season. Morrison responded to the pressure by relaxing into it. The feel here is loose, often celebratory. He digs deep into his long-held fascination with the New Orleans R&B tradition for inspiration. "Domino" is his highest charting single. The funky guitar lick, left-hand piano rumbling, driving, Memphis-style horns, and pumping bassline kick things off in grand party style. The ballad "Crazy Face," written in 1968, melds acoustic guitar, mandolin, and piano. Morrison's brittle, bluesy saxophone line and a grooving B-3 tip the balance toward R&B. "Give Me a Kiss" has a great Zigaboo Modeliste feel in the horn charts; Fats Domino gets referenced in Alan Hand's piano stroll, and the punchy, doo-wopping tag in the chorus nods at Frankie Ford. "I've Been Working" (which dates to Astral Weeks) is Morrison at his funky best, roaring above a cooking choogle. The acoustic guitar vamp is highlighted by swirling organ, and electric Meters-esque guitar and basslines. Drummer Dahaud Elias Sharr lays down tough breaks and fills throughout as jazzy horns frame the singer. "Call Me Up in Dreamland" features the loose-knit "street choir" (musicians, wives, girlfriends, etc.). It's built on the ragged, Celtic soul-gospel template that Morrison would continue to refer to. The intimate "I'll Be Your Lover Too," adorned only by acoustic guitar and whispering drums, is haunted with the slow-burn passion that would flow so easily on 1972's Saint Dominic’s Preview. Second single "Blue Money" is a Rhodes-and-brass driven blues that returns to the NOLA trick bag for fire. The poetic "Virgo Clowns" is painted in a lovely meld of 12-string acoustic guitars and bass clarinet. "Gypsy Queen" is slippery love song, with Morrison offering a gorgeous falsetto. The Celtic soul in "If I Ever Needed Someone" is highlighted by the same trio of backing vocalists that appeared on Moondance's "Crazy Love." The closing title track draws on the swaggering, testifying gospel that inspired that album's "Caravan" (and, played back-to-back, seems to grow right out of it). The street choir's backing is sweeter, balanced by eloquent sax and harmonica breaks. As an album, His Band & the Street Choir may not equal Astral Weeks or Moondance, but the aim was never that lofty. That most of these songs have endured as fan favorites is testament enough to their quality.”
(courtesy Thom Jurek, allmusic.com.)
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