Tupelo Honey

Tupelo Honey is an album of Van Morrison left in November 1971.

The name of the album is that of a variety of honey estimated of soft and light savor which comes from the flowers of the Tupelo, a tree which one finds in North America and Asia.

The removal of the singer since Woodstock towards the California deeply influenced all the development process of this disc.

On the one hand, it was constrained to recruit in the urgency of new musicians to mitigate the absence of a great group in becoming remained in Woodstock, the future Caledonia Soul Orchestrated . This group “of fortune” is partly made up of former collaborators, but also of many new arrivals. Among the familiar ones, one finds Connie Kay, the subtle beater of Modern Jazz Four-bit byte which worked in Astral Weeks, Gary Malabar, beater of Moondance, and Schroer Jack, saxophonist who acts already as regular collaborator.

In addition, the majority of the songs were written with the old residence of Woodstock in the intention to make of it an album of orientation Country. The result will concern rather the Country rock'n'roll, marked by the presence of John McFee to the Steel guitar. This relative musical turn Marie ideally with the essential matter of this disc, a dream that Van Morrison outlines in each song: that of a quiet life in the decorated pastoral pleasure campaign delicious at the sides of a subjected woman who is often in the kitchen (see the words of Old Old Woodstock and I Wanna Roo You (Scottish Derivative) ). Arrangements are air and more admirable than in all than made Van Morrison previously, forming a whole of a remarkable cohesion.

Comment of Van Morrison: “I was not very satisfied with this album, it was not really new. They were songs which existed since an end of time already. I never listened to it much”.

Tupelo Honey reached the 27e place of the American classification of the record sales. The simple ones which was extracted from it are Wild Night (28 US), Tupelo Honey (47 US) and (Straight To Your Heart) Like has Cannonball .

Musicians

  • Van Morrison - song, Guitar, Harmonica, choruses
  • Bill Church - low Guitare
  • Shine Gasca - trumpet
  • Stuart " Boots" Houston - Flute, choruses
  • Jordan Mark - Piano, electric Piano
  • Connie Kay - battery on " Starting has New Life" , " Tupelo Honey" , " What That Evening Sun Goes Down" and " Old Old Woodstock"
  • Gary Mallaber - percussion, Vibraphone
  • John McFee - Steel guitar
  • Ronnie Montrose - guitar, Mandoline, choruses
  • Bruce Royston - flute
  • Rick Schlosser - battery
  • Schroer Jack - Saxophone
  • Ted Templeman - Organ
  • Janet Planet, Ellen Schroer - choruses

  • Arrangements of coppers: Van Morrison and Jack Schroer
  • Arrangements of the flutes: Stuart " Boots" Houston on " (Straight to Your Heart) Like has Cannonball" and Bruce Royston on " Tupelo Honey"
Product by Van Morrison and Ted Templeman and composed in its totality by Van Morrison.

List tracks

  1. "Wild Night" - 3:33
  2. " (Straight to Your Heart) Like has Cannonball" - 3:43
  3. " Old Old Woodstock" - 4:17
  4. " Starting has New Life" - 2:10
  5. " You' Re My Woman" - 6:44
  6. " Tupelo Honey" - 6:54
  7. " I Wanna Roo You (Scottish Derivative) " - 3:27
  8. " When That Evening Sun Goes Down" - 3:06
  9. " Moonshine Whiskey" - 6:48

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