![]() ![]() Van Morrison is important to the larger story Walsh wants to tell about questers and malcontents in the Boston area, but really only as one signpost of the confusion of the moment - a miserable young man (a 'stranger in this world' is what the narrator calls himself on Astral Weeks’s first song) struggling to find his own voice amid the cacophony. It is a mistake, though, to imagine that Walsh intends for all of these smaller set pieces to add up to some master tale of 'How Astral Weeks Came to Be.' This book works, rather, as a sort of decentered collective biography. In this book, Walsh facilitates a long overdue reading of Morrison and his early work in the appropriate hardscrabble context. ![]() Walsh does a strong job of dramatizing the interpersonal tensions informing the album’s creation, adding grit and depth to a story often transmitted with a more facile investment in the notion of individual genius. Chances are if youre reading this youre familiar (perhaps very familiar) with this album. I hesitate to review this (74+ minutes) album since theres an in depth review already, but its such a fine set of songs that I cant help myself. In Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968, Ryan eat the work as a social text, an LP that can be 'read' as a legible part of a career, a cultural moment, a scene, a product of an industry with recognizable protocols. THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE 2015 REISSUE OF 'ASTRAL WEEKS'. ![]()
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