{"id":4328,"date":"2018-12-03T09:27:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T14:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=4328"},"modified":"2018-12-03T09:27:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T14:27:59","slug":"van-morrison-to-release-40th-studio-album-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=4328","title":{"rendered":"Van Morrison to Release 40th Studio Album This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Prophet Speaks\u00a0is Van Morrison\u2019s 40th\u00a0studio album and will be released on December 7th on Caroline International. This fourteen track album follows a recent run of hugely acclaimed albums (Roll With The Punches, Versatile\u00a0and\u00a0You\u2019re Driving Me Crazy), each of which has delved deep into the musical styles that have continued to inspire Van throughout his life\"\" \u2013 vocal jazz and R&B. Here, Van takes on a series of unarguable classics by the likes of John Lee Hooker, Sam Cooke and Solomon Burke (among others) and makes them unmistakably his own. Alongside these reinterpretations,\u00a0The Prophet Speaks\u00a0features six phenomenal new Van Morrison compositions.
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\nVan Morrison\u00a0says of The Prophet Speaks: \u201cIt was important for me to get back to recording new music as well as doing some of the blues material that has inspired me from the beginning. Writing songs and making music is what I do, and working with great musicians makes it all the more enjoyable.\u201d
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\nThe Prophet Speaks\u00a0again finds Van working with the incredible multi-instrumentalist Joey DeFrancesco (the artist co-credited on\u00a0You\u2019re Driving Me Crazy)\u00a0and his band (including Dan Wilson on guitar, Michael Ode on drums and Troy Roberts on tenor saxophone).
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\nThe title track from\u00a0The Prophet Speaks\u00a0is available\u00a0now. The tracklisting is:
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\n1. Gonna Send You Back To Where I Got You From (Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, Leona Blackman)
\n2. Dimples (John Lee Hooker, James Bracken)
\n3. Got to Go Where The Love Is (Van Morrison)
\n4. Laughin\u2019 and Clownin\u2019 (Sam Cooke)
\n5. 5 am Greenwich Mean Time (Van Morrison)
\n6. Gotta Get You Off My Mind (Solomon Burke, Delores Burke, Josephine Burke Moore)
\n7. Teardrops (J.D. Harris)
\n8. I Love The Life I Live (Willie Dixon)
\n9. Worried Blues \/ Rollin\u2019 and Tumblin\u2019 (J.D. Harris)
\n10. Ain\u2019t Gonna Moan No More (Van Morrison)
\n11. Love Is A Five Letter Word (Gene Barge)
\n12. Love Is Hard Work (Van Morrison)
\n13. Spirit Will Provide (Van Morrison)
\n14. The Prophet Speaks (Van Morrison)<\/p>\n

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