Reviews
"Morrison uses the performance to breathe new life into the songs with a band that can follow anywhere he leads -- jazz, folk or soul.", "The strings, flute, etc., are all present...The deceptively timeless fluidity induces a wonderful mystic fog..." -- Grade: A-, 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "The album is still like nothing else in rock, a quiet union of breathtaking opposites: Morrison's soul-trance reflections on his early life in Belfast and the tension of the chamber-jazz arrangements.", 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "By the time Morrison hits the guttural moans of the bonus track 'Listen to the Lion,' the songs have opened up like a source of eternal life.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "This is a tour de force, heady, joyful, ambitious, elegiac and -- as with the 1968 original -- unlike anything else.", 4 stars out of 5 -- “The singer is in fine fettle returning to his 1969 triumph following forays into country, blues and Mose Allison-inspired jazz.”
