There are several moments, nevertheless, where Morrison digs deep. “A Few Bars Early” is a solid blues with a clever narrative riff and a satisfying payoff. Buried in the record is its highlight, the six-minute ballad “Duper’s Delight.” The song is ostensibly about the same sense, ...
Van Morrison is hard to categorise. A vocalist whose idiosyncratic growl characterises an unusual, highly influential style that, according to critic Greil Marcus, "no white man sings like,” as well as an award‑winning multi‑instrumentalist, songwriter, poet and author, Morrison...
Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and the late Rachel Pollack. Before she died, Rachel worked on a story for Jake and me that we ran twice in a comic of ours known as “Genius”. I believe it was her last published comic book story. Jake: My biggest comic influences are Sta...
A good chunk of this spending was buying new waterproof jackets, which will hopefully last a few years. I had a spectacular fall in 2024 and ripped the knees of a pair of good walking trousers [not in a stylish way]. I did manage to replace these in a sale and we continue a one-i...
Van Morrison on stage, 1970.Photo: Retna At the time of the Moondance project, Shelly Yakus's main studio experience had previously been as an assistant only, and therefore the opportunity to record Van Morrison as a fully‑fledged engineer came as a bolt out of the blue. ...