Van Morrison: Keep Me Singing
Van Morrison
Keep Me Singing
(Caroline International)
Legend Van Morrison has just released his 36th studio album, Keep Me Singing. Solid songwriting, strings rising up and around Morrisonās still-expressive voice, organ, harmonies, and a lush production of easy-to-listen-to tunes inform this album. The first tune, āLet It Rhyme,ā has a soft rimshot moving us along as double harmonies come up. āMemory Laneā is a sweet acoustic guitar-and-strings ballad mix, seeing Van the Man wondering about all that has gone before. He covers āShare Your Love With Meā with a nice swing. āIn Tiburnā is a jazz nod to all that happened in San Francisco years ago, Mr. M. name dropping along the way. āToo Lateā is the most upbeat mover here and ending the albumĀ with an organ, snare brush mover instrumental is āCaledonia Swing.ā Van Morrisonās Keep Me Singing is another example of classic songwriting of a certain type, perfect singing (Morrisonās voice sounds just about as good as it always did), and fine production. Masterful stuff from a master.