Keep it simple kaimuki12/28/2022 ![]() ![]() "Little Village" - 6:11 (Live) (Album Only).(available UK week of 17 March 2008 and U.S. "Don't Go to Nightclubs Anymore" - 4:31."Typically the band settles into a groove while Morrison lifts off into the trancelike realm he calls 'entrainment'." Anthony Decurtis, Rolling Stone Track listing "There's a certain grace to Van's stripped-back band and as always he evokes images of sorrow and anguish but with such beauty and warmth that you can't help but smile when you hear them." Mat Strowbridge/.uk Most of the reviews were favourable with four star ratings by The Star, The Sun, The Times and Uncut. His sixth solo album, Saint Dominic's Preview, charted at #15 in 1972. charts, which was Morrison's highest placement in the US at that point. On its first week of release the album reached number ten on the U.S. ![]() KEEP IT SIMPLE KAIMUKI PROFESSIONALReception Professional ratings Aggregate scores Morrison gave an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today show in the morning on 10 March 2008 and an hour long interview on the Paul Jones show at BBC Two Radio the same evening. on 15 March, a concert performance of Morrison performing all of the songs from the album was broadcast on BBC Radio 2. During this tour, he also performed at La Zona Rosa in Austin, Texas, at the South by Southwest (SXSW) music conference and festival on 12 March 2008. Morrison announced a short United States tour to promote the album with appearances in Austin, Texas Nashville, Tennessee (at the Ryman Auditorium) Boston, Massachusetts and in New York City, starting on 11 March 2008. "That's Entrainment" was played for the first time, at the beginning of the second hour, on Chris Evans BBC Radio 2 Drivetime show on Wednesday, 30 January 2008, with Evans commenting: "The new Van Morrison album came with a shoot-to-kill warning if played before a certain date, but that's now been lifted so we can play it." Promotion It's kind of when you're in the present moment - you're here - with no past or future. Entrainment is really what I'm getting at in the music. In his words:Įntrainment is when you connect with the music. In one of the songs, " That's Entrainment", Morrison says he has explained his approach to the music on the album. Morrison wrote all eleven songs featured on the album and has been quoted as saying: "I felt I had something to say with these songs." It's got a lot of inspiration from various things I was inspired by out there, but it comes out like a new album." "It's got elements of blues, folk, gospel - all my influences. In an interview on BBC Radio 4 on 10 March 2008, Morrison spoke of his inspiration for the songs on the album: The album features most of the various genres that Morrison has been influenced by such as jazz, folk, blues, celtic, country, soul and gospel. The May 2005 album, Magic Time, was composed of ten originals and three cover songs. Other albums released since then have contained some cover songs. This is the first studio album of all new original material since his 1999 album Back on Top. Eight years later, in 2016, Keep Me Singing rose to No. This album achieved Morrison's highest ranking in US charts at that point. ![]() 10 on the US, UK and Canada charts and No. His previous studio album Pay the Devil was also released on the Lost Highway label, in March 2006. It was released on 17 March 2008 (see 2008 in music) by Exile Productions Ltd./ Polydor in the UK and on the Lost Highway Records label on 1 April 2008, in the US. ![]() Keep It Simple is the thirty-third solo studio album recorded by Northern Irish singer/songwriter Van Morrison. Jazz, folk, blues, Celtic, country, soul, gospel ![]()
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