Moving On Skiffle: - Van Morrison [CD]

It should come as no surprise that Van Morrison has made an album inspired by skiffle. Van Morrison's love of skiffle dates back to his childhood. He would hang out at the famed Belfast record store Atlantic Records, where he'd hear early 20th century folk, blues and jazz from the likes of Lead Belly and Jelly Roll Morton. 'Moving On Skiffle' finds him taking a homemade style that exploded across Britain in the mid-1950s and infusing it with a level of sophistication and soulfulness that it didn't always possess the first time around. The 23-track album goes to the heart of the music Van Morrison has inhabited ever since he was six years old, hanging out in the smoky confines of Belfast's Atlantic Records. It also contains songs that underline, in their messages on the importance of freedom and living on your own terms, his lifetime philosophy.

Disc: One

1. Freight Train - Van Morrison (3.25)
2. Careless Love - Van Morrison (5.39)
3. Sail Away Ladies - Van Morrison (3.17)
4. Streamline Train - Van Morrison (4.02)
5. Take This Hammer - Van Morrison (4.38)
6. No Other Baby - Van Morrison (4.30)
7. Gypsy Davy - Van Morrison (4.19)
8. This Loving Light of Mine - Van Morrison (5.09)
9. In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down - Van Morrison (4.24)
10. Yonder Comes a Sucker - Van Morrison (3.12)
11. Travelin' Blues - Van Morrison (3.41)

Disc: Two

1. Giv Don't Allow - Van Morrison (4.09)
2. Come On In - Van Morrison (3.38)
3. Streamlined Cannonball - Van Morrison (3.14)
4. Greenback Dollar - Van Morrison (3.42)
5. Oh Lonesome Me - Van Morrison (3.25)
6. I Wish I Was an Apple On a Tree - Van Morrison (3.13)
7. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Van Morrison (3.04)
8. I'm Movin' On - Van Morrison (2.56)
9. Cold Cold Heart - Van Morrison (3.26)
10. Worried Man Blues - Van Morrison (4.37)
11. Cotton Fields - Van Morrison (3.05)
12. Green Rocky Road - Van Morrison (8.57)