Van Morrison - Caledonia Soul Music
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- A Van Morrison studio outtake of murky origins - it has to be late 60s/early 70s, maybe from the Moondance sessions? Not sure if you could call this a “song,” exactly. It’s a vamp (a Vanp?), with Morrison cycling through two chords, coaxing his band along, singing a few stray phrases. Not much more happens over the course of 16+ minutes, but the whole thing is positively hypnotic. Van Morrison is notorious for being a bit of a grouch personally, but he’s filled with joy here. He doesn’t want to play this music, he wants to live in it. And for a little while, he wants you there, too. - doomandgloomfro...
from the bootleg album Van Morrison Meets Bob Dylan, John Lee Hooker, The Chieftains, & The Danish Radio Band - 1997
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The original bootleg with "Caledonia Soul Music"
"VAN THE MAN
Recorded 1970/71, New York/San Francisco
In 1970 Van Morrison was hot property when Moondance, his second album for Warners, became an FM radio staple. But the improvisational, elongated song form that defined Morrison’s Warners debut, Astral Weeks, still held a deep fascination. Add his esoteric belief in the ancient kingdom of Caledonia (a landmass combining Scandinavia and Scotland/Northern Ireland) as the birthplace of the blues and the epic, largely instrumental, 18-minute musical voyage “Caledonia Soul Music” was the result. Recorded during sessions for His Band And The Street Choir, a tape of the track was passed to and played several times on San Francisco KSAN radio station but left off the album. Morrison later admitted Street Choir was “a compromise… I lost control of it.” The track was released here with a live version of “Moondance” from the Fillmore West in 1970, and a 1971 Pacific High Studios radio broadcast that included a rare outing for the Them track “Friday’s Child”, a combative “Hound Dog” and a caustic, seven-minute deconstruction of Dylan’s “Just Like A Woman”.
Sound quality: Raw and live with slight distortion
See also: The Real Philosopher’s Stone"
www.uncut.co.uk/features/uncuts-50-best-bootlegs-68155/10
Caledonia is simply put, Scotland....!!
is there a way to get the full album some where?
Crk.
I bought a pressing of this album - Van the Man - in Kingston, Ontario back around 1973-74. Caledonia Soul Music was certainly the highlight of the album, though Side 1 offered a hidden treasure in that it was a quality Ray Charles album (don't remember which now). No problems with Brother Ray, but I was looking forward to the 'original' Side 1.
TB Sheets is one of my all time favorites. Very talented songwriter and a great soul man. Underrated in this century. Wild night always makes me want to out and do something on a Saturday night.
I commented in the first 10 seconds. ^5
I've been a fan of Van Morrison since I was a kid, thought I heard everything he has done until now. I just get lost in the moment with this piece of music, thank you for putting this out there ❤
Yea no complaints ere love the man, van ✌️❤️
you can't ask for better sound quality,imo...raw and spontaneous
Only Van Morrison can make a 16 minute song and when it ends you wish it would have lasted longer.
nice.
He and Joanna newsom
Can i ger a witness?!?!
🍠 Sweet!
@culminate100 ha ha ha... Especially not from Cork! I reckon i could out talk any Irish person, cat, dog, milkman, cow, even. Leper... Midget... I'm Brazilian /Scottish /Yorkshire born and bread... I have samba, heath cliff and... The fairy fort at castle 🏰 Dunvegan on my side ⛵ yay 🔮 oh, and the Play that shall not be named!!! Hubble trubbble. Wasn't hubble the name of a space shio??
Mellow as I want to be, free as it seems to be, the harmony just works on me, Music sets me free, all the Country I have ever seen, lands in Caledonia, Van Morrison singing to me, pickers picking me, this flow of what is to me, California water filling me, Headwaters fill the cup at he Sacramento, out of Mt Shasta, sunlight putting me, in this Library, loving be able to pick, this Music transforms me back to where I want to be, Van Morrison takes on the Lead, I just follow with this harmony, Being so content!
Morrison is a musical savant, absolutely brilliant.
Without a doubt! ☘️💚☘️
i can't see how words could accompany this piece. so lovely. thanks van morrison. real music. proper muscian. absolute legend.
Spot on Micheal
Listen to the lion
Sweet sweet soulful music to my ears! For you my brother Cragar as he flies high in heaven! Loved Van on earth!!!
And my brother Tommy as well...
What fantastic musicians who can go in this journey together and do it so perfectly.
I've said this so many times! It is what it is....Soul Music. It transcends the human experience, that's why so many people are in awe of it. It's spiritual & as We're not Gods it's incomprehensible but leaves us mortals enraptured. It's Music!!!!
No one, no one reaches the level of George Ivan Morrison. We are very lucky to live in the same era as him. The world will be a different place when he's gone
At 69 yrs old this fellow rocks my soul....awesome? So right!!!!!
Me too at 77yrs!!😀
Ron,I’m in my 70s Blessed to have been born in Belfast and had Them” as my favorite group,Van stood apart even then.
Rock on Vans the Man
dancing!!
66 and hoping l can pass the audition and join this club.
Some of the sweetest, most soulful notes ever plucked from the air...
I really love this one - how these musicians find each-other. Sublime.. Godley :-) (Am going search for the Live Vid of this very same performance.. hope it is still in the air)
50+ years ago, I had a group of singers I somewhat worshiped. Dylan, Buffalo Springfield, VanMorrison, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and some Rod Stewart. After 50 years, all dropped back except for Van Morrison, nobody compares to Van, he is music.
Me Too.......
Agree sooo much !!!!
Well said. 💚🍀
this was heavenly as all hell...Viva Van!
I love this one too. This makes me Dance and Laugh. Thanks to all the People who are doing this TUNE.
Present!! And the feelings deep ... Soul deep!!!!
Love
ik heb mijn raam open voor frissen lucht en de music hard maar dragelijk en dan luister ik naar deze music! biertje erbij en genieten van music! tanks
just can't get enough of this ~ soulspiritspits
Your the kid man
Might be Ronnie Montrose on mandolin. He was in the band that played at Pacific High Recorders in SF for a small audience (broadcast on FM radio in 1971). The band included Van - guitar, harmonica, vocal; Ronnie Montrose - electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin; Mark Jordan - piano, organ; Bill Church - bass;Bill Atwood - trumpet, trombone; Jack Schroer - soprano, alto, and baritone saxophones, piano; Rick Shlosser - drums, percussion; Ellen Schroer - vocals; Janet Morrison - vocals.
AllMusic Review by J.P. Ollio
Van Morrison's live concert at the Pacific High Studio in 1971 has turned up on numerous bootlegs, most notably the Van the Man LP. The two-disc Into the Mystic boasts clear sound, a killer set list, and one essential bonus track. Always an erratic live performer, Morrison appears relaxed on this set, belting out early R&B classics and songs from his initial Warner Brothers records. A cover of "Hound Dog" opens with Morrison reciting the lyrics to "Que Sera Sera." Later, he introduces Dylan's "Just Like a Woman" as "a rendition of somebody else's tune." The concert's apex is a riveting performance of Them's "Friday's Child" -- piano and guitar build to a crescendo at each refrain while the rhythm section pounds away. The CD's final cut is a long instrumental piece entitled "Caledonia Soul Music." An outtake from the His Band and Street Choir sessions, this winding 16-minute track may be reason enough to seek out this disc, a truly transcendent recording. Fans of Morrison should put Into the Mystic at the top of their wish lists.
If this is from the Street Choir sessions, then it's John Platania on mandolin. Van calls out his name at 6 minutes in.
the acoustic guitar solos, are they Van or Ronnie Montrose's?
Love details thankyou
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Ppl
This is what I call music, the master Van at work, no other can do it like Mr V Morrisan can, the next time I meet God and Jesus I will ask them to arrange to plant some golden wings on this man back and I know that I will not be asking for too much.
Yes, hypnotic is the word for this. Can't get enough.
6.45 aw! Van is in to the music. That's what I love about Van Morrison he is the music
An incredible piece of music
musical genuine is FOREVER, van Morrison's always a classic performance......PS ENOUGH SAID ALREADY
My guess this is probably a St. Dominics outtake based on the sound of his voice and the guitars. At the 8:20 mark he does the humming to the guitar which sounds exactly like "Almost Independence day". These are recognizable vocal tics of that period for Van. The mention of Caledonia earlier in this recording means it had to be after 71' which was first mentioned on Listen to the lion on that album. Also, my guess is the piano player is Mark Jordan, he played on Listen to the Lion and later on Into the Music Album, his playing style is recognizable by the heavy chords he plays which I hear clearly here on this recording.
Agree with that.
Thank you! This affirms exactly what I hear throughout 🎶🎵🎙🎛
Agree!
All very astute guesses. Thank you. I just listened to St. Dominic's Preview a few days ago, including Almost Independence Day.
Thank you. I wonder if it's Van playing guitar here. What do you think?
Thank you Robert for adding yet another fine work from our Van. Nobody finer, regardless of the season, emotions, time of say... all will be well. Hugs to you, Robert
Oh my gosh! I am in love! What soul and sensitivity
Susan Bryant 50 minutes after you I discover this song in another part of the world and feel the same
I have read somewhere, where the writer said that this was not a song, I do not want to shout to loud but to me this is a song of the very finest order, how lucky are we to get to hear this tune, this mystic music, this poem, this healing most brilliant sing/tune for my favorite 1st Celtic cousin, I say to this person, stop your complaining and just listen, if it make you feel better then call it a brick wall, a fallen tree, a charging elephant or the roar a wild and free majestic African Lion roaming freely around in the wild open lands of Kisiju, Tanzania where my brother Fr Patrick works day and night and all year round, to care and provide for all the ill, poor and forgotten people of this area as best as he and others can,
I swear I almost stood up and clapped at the end!!
Awesome comment. 😁❤️🍀💚
Fantastic response to something so sublime and soulful.
How beautiful. i enjoyed alot. Fantastic music
Thanks so much for posting this, I have never heard it before. Love it!!
Been a Van Morrison from the very beginning, but lately, I have discovered I never really knew him. The man is beyond a musician, much more, and so much more, that who am I to even make a comment about him.
How is this so damn cool? It put me in total zen mode. Thank you for uploading.
My favorite song from Mr Van Morrison
I have always loved 💘 Van but Caledonia is his very best ☘️long live Van Morrison, my hero 🧚♀️
No words needed for this tune. ❤
Love this!! Relaxing and peaceful. Wish there were video.
No visuals needed, we all have our own unique visualation,that's the beauty of music
This is the speeded up version. The actual-speed version is on TH-cam. I was lucky to a get a bootleg record of this more than 40 years ago. It's still a great jam.
I love Karloff, don't YOU?
Built to last. It's sustainable.
St Dominics is a girls only school in Belfast organized by catholic nuns and the review refers to going home time review by the boys ,from the boys only school.
I was one of those boys....but the nuns had them well warned and we were ignored....
Excellent Thank You So Much for Loaading this Song! Love Vamp!
a song that you hear first time and first thought is ''oh,this must be good''.......and at the end...it is....Van Morrison never let me down....
Truly Exotic Sound with Hypnotic Rythmn of a Higher Spirit....
excellent. Man. what a treasure.
thank you.
Love it!
Van Morrison music xxx.tanks vriend .mooi.!!!
Thank you for posting. Well said.
Thank you for sharing
So good.
Your description of this track was perfect.
CALEDONIA SOUL !!!!!!!
I'll always love the Van Man 🎶🎼🎵🎶🎼🎵 !
What a great track, the improvisation and this groove, blissful!
"whispers, waves, grooves, gra, moves rhyme in grass and root of soul songs, one and all."
AWESOME JAM.
Well, Van is the Man!
I saw you play in Pittsburgh with 1979 or 78 your soul spoke to me then and now had drove from jersey !!!
Long Beach, California 1973 I'm the new Sailor in town living aboard ship. The radios are blaring "Wild night! Every mornin'". Radio was changing to FM. Stereo. KGB San Diego gifts me an FM radio tuner you plug into the AM radio antenna that you mount under the dash (it was steel). My '67 'Cuda only had AM. Remember when FM was cool. Van Morrison was big on the radio before FM was cool....... "WILD NIGHT! EVERY MORNIN'"......
MAN ! THIS IS AMAZING !!!!!!!!!!!
Obožavam sve od njega ali ovo je vrh vrhova. Praznik za uši.🎉🎉🎉❤
Gracias robert.
You're right, sixteen minutes is not enough.
So I play it again.
amazing! gives me thrills everytime I hear this
Once a day !
It is just WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tripping and listening to this wow wow wow
Hey Robert, Just found your channel & subd. Love what you got goin on here‼️ Thanks, sounds great up here in the foothills🏕
Van Morrison, the best thing to come out of the Netherlands since a schmoke and a pancake.
Love your explanation.....
Impressive! Thanks so much for sharing😍
i would argue hes the best! hes my favorite! then james brown then Duane allman then ray charles
Thank you for this, Mr. Baugher.
Thank you for this video with great music*****Love Van the man ***** Hear his new 3 songs which real lyrics!
" there's no more you can say about love."
It's a truly Bonbon !
Awesome.!!!!!!!
I WILL KEEP ON SAILING
Thanks for sharing...
break it down good ole fashioned style!
Van the man , ... no more to say ,
That fucking bassline!
Touch my soul your song!
best music
I have a memory of a song by Van Morisson, I can't find it on the internet, I think something like "Louisiana" is repeated many times but not sure, it migth be some other word sounding the same, anybody knows which song I'm talking about ? It's a slow song, very nostalgic. Would like so much to find it, his voice is fantastic. I think I heard it on the radio in the 90's.
That is impossible to age.
The healing has begun.
Very good🎉
Dammm... This is too good😎
soul music for the soul
WOW WOW WOW ❤
❤Van's The Man..☘♬ ❤🥰
On this dark and lonely night
Van the MAN
That's baby making music right there, that's what that is.
Sublime 🙏
beauty
❤❤❤❤❤
Grande
Yes, Let's get with it.haha