![]() Silver?, Howard Zinn, and many other avatars of Boston-area counterculture, the book offers readers an engaging and fascinating look into a forgotten chapter of the 1960s. Populated by such near-forgotten characters as the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Mel Lyman and the Fort Hill Community, TV host David Silver of WGBH’S What’s Happening Mr. What Ryan Walsh does so beautifully in his book about this period in Morrison’s life as an artist is not only paint a vivid portrait of where Morrison wrote his history-making sophomore album, but also and especially what else was going on at the time that gave Astral Weeks its context. ![]() But it is less known that the origins of the album reside in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Morrison lived for nine months and wrote much of the album’s material-a Cambridge you’ve never quite read about like this before. ![]() It is well known enough that the album was recorded in a few poorly rehearsed sessions with musicians Morrison, for the most part, barely knew. ![]() 1968 was the annus mirabilis in which Van Morrison recorded and released Astral Weeks, one of the most inexplicable and transcendent albums of all time, and all at the mind-boggling age of twenty-three. ![]()
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