Van Morrison
Van Morrison
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Artist Information
Genres: Soul, Singer/Songwriter, Adult Contemporary, Psychedelic, Soft Rock, Folk-Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul, Jazz-Rock, Album Rock, Celtic Rock, AM Pop
Active: 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's
Born: August 31, 1945 in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Influences
Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Hank Williams, Leadbelly, Fats Domino, Lonnie Donegan, Mose Allison, Jackie Wilson, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Jimmie Rodgers, Jimmy Reed, Jimmy Witherspoon
Similar Artists
The Chieftains, Tim Buckley, Georgie Fame, The Band, Nick Drake, Frankie Miller, Dave Mason, Shawn Phillips, Paul Simon, Cat Stevens, Al Stewart, James Taylor, Neil Young, The Black Velvet Band, David Crosby, Elton John, George Harrison, Leonard Cohen, Dr. John
Followers
Robbie Robertson, Jeff Buckley, Counting Crows, T-Bone Burnett, Help Yourself, David & David, Elvis Costello, Ray LaMontagne, Dexys Midnight Runners, Lester Bangs, Hothouse Flowers, Brinsley Schwarz, Clarence Bucaro, Black 47, Nicolai Dunger, David Baerwald, Rick Danko, Cuby & the Blizzards, Thin Lizzy
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Biography
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 perhaps the most spiritually transcendent body of work in the rock & roll canon.
Discography
Release: February 24, 2009
Label: Listen to the Lion Records
Release: February 10, 2009
Label: Cleopatra