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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.
"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.
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."
Several authors have commented on the mysterious object, "Veedon Fleece" as it appears in the album title and in the lyrics of the song "You Don't Pull No Punches, but You Don't Push the River". Scott Thomas states in his review: "The Morrison-conceived Veedon Fleece is the symbol of everything yearned for in the preceding songs; spiritual ...
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 ...
Van Morrison, 1973 album Hard Nose the Highway; Stan Kenton, 1973 7.5 on the Richter Scale, titled "It's Not Easy Bein' Green" Della Reese, 1973 album Let Me in Your Life; John Leyton, 1973 eponymous album; Diana Ross, 1974 album Live at Caesars Palace
The Authorized Bang Collection is a compilation album by Van Morrison containing every track that Morrison recorded for Bang Records in the 1960s. It was released on April 28, 2017, by Legacy Recordings on the Bang label.
It's Too Late to Stop Now is a 1974 live double album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison.It features performances that were recorded in concerts at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, California, the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, and the Rainbow in London, during Morrison's three-month tour with his eleven-piece band, the Caledonia Soul Orchestra, from May to July 1973.