Van Morrison - Carré Theatre Amsterdam (2001)

Van Morrison Equal parts blue-eyed soul shouter and wild-eyed poet-sorcerer, Van Morrison is among popular music's true innovators, a restless seeker whose incantatory vocals and alchemical fusion of R&B, jazz, blues, and Celtic folk produced what is regarded as perhaps the most spiritually transcendent body of work in the rock & roll canon. Having penned iconic songs such as "Gloria," "Brown-Eyed Girl," and "Moondance," Morrison has, from the very beginning -- as frontman for Irish blues rockers Them during the early 1960s to a solo career that has lasted more than 50 years -- been subject only to the whims of his own muse. His solo recordings, beginning with the mystical, jazzy folk of Astral Weeks in 1968, cover extraordinary stylistic ground, yet retain a consistency of vision and purity of execution unmatched among his contemporaries. His swinging meld of jazz, pop, folk, blues, and Celtic soul fueled the albums of his Warner Bros. period from the late '60s (Moondance) to the early '80s (Common One).

Tracklist
01. Celtic swing
02. Northern muse
03. Cry for home
04. She gives me religion
05. Tore down a la Rimbaud
06. Vanlose stairway
07. Beautiful vision
08. It's all in the game
09. Domino
10. Cleaning windows
11. Oh the warm feeling
12. Here comes the night
13. Dweller on the threshold
14. Help me
15. And the healing has begun
16. Gloria
17. In the garden
18. Full force gale
19. Rave on John Donne