Lately Van Morrison has apparently been bent on oversaturating the market with his output. Less than a year after the release of “Accentuate The Positive” – his latest studio album – and the recent announcement of the August issue of his 2014 concert document, the veteran delved into his archives to come up with fifteen numbers from the not-too-distant past. Set to see the light of day on September 13th, his new collection “New Arrangements And Duets” features, as its title suggests, different takes on such latter-day gems as “The Beauty Of The Days Gone By” and shared-microphone versions of “What’s Wrong With This Picture” and the Irishman’s other cuts.
These hail from various sessions – the big band tracks from 2014, Van’s duets with Joss Stone and Curtis Stigers from 2018, those with Kurt Elling and Willie Nelson from 2018 and 2019 – and that’s only a small part of what Morrison’s planning to flood the aficionados’ shelves with in the near future. Interesting if hardly essential.
New Arrangements And Duets
1. Ain’t Gonna Moan No More (with Kurt Elling)
2. Broken Record (with Kurt Elling)
3. Avalon Of The Heart
4. Close Enough For Jazz (with Curtis Stigers)
5. I’ll Be Your Lover Too
6. Only A Dream
7. So Quiet In Here
8. Someone Like You (with Joss Stone)
9. The Beauty Of The Days Gone By
10. The Master’s Eyes
11. So Complicated
12. Choppin’ Wood
13. You Gotta Make It Through The World
14. What’s Wrong With This Picture (with Willie Nelson)
15. Steal My Heart Away (with Willie Nelson)
