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Van Morrison And Joey DeFrancesco Make A Lethal Addition To An Old Canon

It's been 50 years since Morrison released his classic album Astral Weeks. In April he released his 39th studio LP, You're Driving Me Crazy, and it is feisty from start to finish.
It's the wonder of encore career wonders: On Y<em>ou're Driving Me Crazy</em>, Van Morrison sounds sharp as ever working with Joey DeFrancesco's hard-swinging group.

was 22 years old, flat broke and running out of options when he and a skeleton crew of jazz musicians recorded what became his most heralded album, released 50 years, described his writing process. The songs were "channeled works" — fever dreams, rich in poetry and mysticism.

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