Down the Road
| Van Morrison
Down the Road
Down the Road is the twenty-ninth studio album by Northern Irish singer Van Morrison (see 2002 in music). The album has a nostalgic tone, lyrically and musically, and its arrangements mix R&B and blues with country and folk, and with a few exceptions, like "Georgia on My Mind," the music is most often rooted in 1950s and early 1960s popular music.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
2002- Morrison was fronting Them in Sutch’s and Proby’s heydays, and “Whatever Happened” — a noirish blues with a creeping-wolf rhythm — is a salute to lost and stranded peers, sung with pugnacious affection. It is also top Morrison, a biting indictment of pop today . . . and a personal statement of bulldog purpose: “Facing head-on and doing it my way.”
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All Music
Down the Road is not bitter, but it does look to the past continually and with longing. Musically, it mixes R&B and jazz with bits of country (especially on "What Makes the Irish Heart Beat") and folk, all conjured from the singer's 1950s youth. Lyrically, it deliberately makes use of blues clichés and catch phrases to tell its tales of struggle, recollection, and regret
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Pop Matters
2002- Bolstered by yet another outstanding collection of backing musicians (including a brief contribution from British skiffle legend Acker Bilk on clarinet on "Evening Shadows"), Down the Road rivals some of Morrison's strongest work. By tipping his hat to the past, Morrison finds a way to avoid ruminating on the cruelties of time that often accompany those memories.
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All About Jazz
2002- The collection of Gaelic Romanticism on Down the Road is in stark contrast to his cultural invectives displayed on Hymns to Silence and Days Like This. Morrison is at his happy eclectic best.
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Music OHM
2002- On Down The Road he’s back in fine style and each song is a little gem. Their basic blues structure ensures that originality is in short supply, but presence, unique vocal and musical style and, goddammit, the man’s canon of work all save him.
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Laut.de
2002- With guitars, brass instruments, walking bass, piano, organ, and sometimes even harmonica or violin, one gets the feeling of a jam session of top-class musicians who enjoy their music.
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TIDAL Read
2015- Down the Road is Morrison’s twenty-ninth studio album, and like many of his later albums, it has a sentimental tone, both lyrically and musically. The song arrangements are a mix of R&B, blues, country and folk.
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Scaruffi
Down The Road (2002) is very light fare. There are no "deep" compositions and the sound is often as engaging as lounge-music.
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