Van Morrison - Pay The Devil (2006)192kbps

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Van Morrison - Pay The Devil

Year 2006

Tracks
1. There Stands The Glass 2:16
2. Half As Much 2:36
3. Things Have Gone To Pieces 3:11
4. Big Blue Diamonds 2:56
5. Playhouse 4:13
6. Your Cheatin Heart 2:32
7. Don't You Make Me High 2:47
8. My Bucket's Got A Hole In It 2:22
9. Back Street Affair 2:48
10. Pay The Devil 3:03
11. What Am I Living For 3:57
12. This Has Got To Stop 4:44
13. Once A Day 2:52
14. More And More 2:46
15. Till I Gain Control Again 5:59

With stunning album-length explorations of jazz and 1950s acoustic skiffle and a country-rockabilly collaboration with Linda Gail Lewis behind him, Van Morrison continues exploring classic country with compelling reinterpretations of standards from the 1950s to the 1970s. He reaches back over half a century for Hank Williams Sr.'s "Half As Much," "Your Cheatin' Heart," and "My Bucket's Got a Hole in It" and Webb Pierce's landmark honky-tonk hits "Back Street Affair," "There Stands the Glass," and "More and More." Moving to the mid-'60s, he capably explores George Jones's "Things Have Gone to Pieces" and Connie Smith's "Once a Day." The 1970s are his limit, however, as he probes Rodney Crowell's "'Til I Gain Control Again." Three Morrison originals blend nicely into this mix, as do two non-country favorites: Chuck Willis's "What Am I Living For" and a gleeful spin on Blue Lu Barker's 1938 jazzy, single-entendre favorite "Don't You Make Me High." Recorded in Ireland with uncluttered hard-country backing, Pay the Devil reiterates Morrison's own musical diversity and flair for making any song his own.