The Healing Game
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The Healing Game
The Healing Game is the twenty-sixth studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1997 (see 1997 in music).-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
1997 Van Morrison is the living embodiment of an old cliché: His voice is so good, you could listen to him singing the phone book. The Healing Game‘s 10 songs adhere to pop structures while allowing him room to stretch his celebrated vocal cords. Morrison works the gruff low end of his register to great effect, especially; like a veteran blues belter, he’s grown more authoritative with age.
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All Music
Returning to his own work, Morrison seems to want to come to terms with the bitterness sometimes expressed in more recent original albums like Too Long in Exile and Days Like This. That bitterness has not dissipated by any means, . . . but now he is at pains to make clear that he became a musician because of a pure, simple joy in music-making.
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NME.Com
From the metaphysical heights of 'Rave On, John Donne' to Tales From The Riverbank is a long, long way to fall. Van Morrison's just landed there. With, naturally, a resounding flop.
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The Music Box
1998 Van Morrison continues to crank out albums like clockwork, and though there are no real surprises on The Healing Game, Morrison recovers the passion that seemed to be missing from much of his last outing . . . . The Healing Game is an outing that feels quite comfortable, and while it doesn't break any new ground, it travels familiar roads with both passion and beauty.
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All About Jazz
2008. This self-produced 1997 album is stunning to a degree which Van Morrison has increasingly rarely released, because it's such a pure expression of his personality rather than a contrived concept (songs for movies, country music etc).
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TIDAL Read
2015. The album reflects some of Van Morrison’s most nostalgic work. His retrospective storytelling is very explicit – especially in the manic “Take Me Back,” . . . .
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