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Hard Nose the Highway is the seventh studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1973.It was his first solo album since his 1967 debut Blowin' Your Mind! to contain songs not written by Morrison.
This is the discography of Northern Irish singer Van Morrison.. Morrison made his first recording playing saxophone on "Boozoo Hully Gully" with the International Monarchs in 1962. [1]
ZigZag's review called it "a second cousin to 'Crazy Love' and almost as good." [1] It was a popular concert performance tune for Morrison during the seventies.Stephen Holden in his Rolling Stone review of the Hard Nose the Highway songs said, "Next is the ingratiatingly melodic 'Warm Love', which embodies in all its details a sensuous appreciation of life and music."
Hard Nose the Highway; The Healing Game; His Band and the Street Choir; How Long Has This Been Going On (Van Morrison album) Hymns to the Silence; I.
In 1973, she was invited by Van Morrison to sing on his album Hard Nose the Highway (singing backup on both the title track and "Warm Love"). In 1974, DeShannon released New Arrangement for Columbia Records.
The song "Come Here My Love" was inspired during the week of the sessions and another song "Country Fair" was left over from the Hard Nose the Highway album and provided a fitting sense of closure. " Bulbs " and "Cul de Sac" were recut in New York later with musicians with whom Morrison had never worked before: guitarist John Tropea, bassist ...
In an accompanying essay, poll supervisor Robert Christgau wrote, "As somebody who considers Moondance an apotheosis and has never gotten Astral Weeks, I think this is his worst since Hard Nose the Highway – sententious, torpid, abandoned by God. I know lots of Astral Weeks fans who agree. But Morrison has a direct line to certain souls, and ...
"Bulbs" was first recorded, with different lyrics, at the recording session for the 1973 album, Hard Nose the Highway, released in 1973. [4] After the first recording session for Veedon Fleece', "Bulbs" was re-cut at Mercury Studios in New York City in March 1974, along with "Cul de Sac", to give it a more rock feeling.