Oil Well Bootlegs - RSC CD: Van Morrison – And It Stoned Me To My Soul Oil Well

Van Morrison – And It Stoned Me To My Soul
Oil Well – RSC 079 CD

1 Domino 4:02
2 If I Ever Needed Someone 3:40
3 These Dreams Of You 2:31
4 And It Stoned Me 4:28
5 Come Running 1:50
6 Bit By Bit 5:04
7 Lean On Me 6:31
8 Lorna 2:41
9 I Need Your Kind Of Loving 3:33
10 Wasn't That A Time 5:08
11 Funny Face 2:39
12 Wild Night 5:22
13 Brand New Day 6:02
14 When The Evening Sun Goes Down 2:19
15 Nobody Really Knows 6:09
16 Caravan 4:48
17 The Way Young Lovers Do 3:38
Total time: (70:25)

Note:
All songs by Van Morrison
~~Live in Chicago - April 8, 1971~~
All tracks recorded in studio between 1969-1971.

Lineup
Vocals, Guitar – Van Morrison

This album is a digital clone of: Gets His Chance To Wail - Not On Label ‎– 17087-1 (1991).
This Oil Well version has a fine cover, fine quality. Limited to 200 copies only. Due to its rarity and good quality, this disc is recommended.
All the tracks have been recorded in studio between 1969-1971.
Please note that:"Lean On Me" (track 7) is known as "Hey, Where are You" on Gypsy Soul, and "Wasn't That a Time" (track 10) is known as "Rock and Roll Band" (the title Van announces on the track).

These are mostly alternative versions and demos recorded in the studio with Morrison alone. The compilation is a great way to get closer to the artist or to listen to different takes for those who already know Van Morrison. The audio quality is excellent being master recordings.
What is shown here is a work in progress on the songs that have been officially published over the years. At the moment it seems that none of these songs have been officially released in deluxe versions. Read below for more informations!

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Gets His Chance To Wail
The 17 tracks on this one are from 1969-1971, and are mostly demos that would end up on Moondance, His Band and the Street Choir, Tupelo Honey and several others.Having said this, the tracks seem to be fairly consistent sound-wise and may all have been recorded in one session. Perhaps they are not demos as such and maybe Van was revisiting the earlier tracks in preparation for performance. All the tracks are acoustic recordings with very good sound quality. All arrangements have a slow tempo where all of the lyrics are crystal clear.

The beginning of some tracks include Van introducing the song or discussing the arrangement with someone else. At the beginning of "Domino" there's a little of the studio discussion included and they decide to leave the flute out of the mix. Then Van says, "I think that's a better key for me; gives me a chance to 'wee-ale' more." A compilation of acoustic studio demo material stretching from the Astral Weeks period through to the early 1970s, included never released (recorded) songs. Nice material from a great era.
None of this stuff,parts,tracks etc has ended up on any officially release!
All tracks recorded in studio between 1969-1971.

Van Morrison a bio
The most erudite contribution to reforming folk-rock came from the former vocalist of Them, Van Morrison, who quickly established himself as the most significant musician of his generation. The lengthy, complex, hypnotic, dreamy jams of Astral Weeks (1968) coined an abstract, free-form song format that blended soul, jazz, folk and psychedelia and was performed with the austere intensity of chamber music. The psychedelic and jazz elements came to the foreground on Moondance (1970), which boasted lush, baroque arrangements. Perhaps sensing the end of an era, for a few years Morrison abandoned those bold experiments and retreated to bland rhythm'n'blues songs, with the notable exception of Listen To The Lion, off St Dominic's Preview (1972).

Then Veedon Fleece (1974) applied the same treatment to a pastoral, nostalgic and elegiac mood. Morrison's vocal style continued to develop towards a unique form of warbling that bridged Celtic bards and soul singers. On albums such as Into The Music (1979), A Common One (1980), A Beautiful Vision (1982) and Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart (1983) Morrison employed disparate musical elements to mold compositions that are profoundly personal and even philosophical, that are both arduous meditations and elaborate constructions, that are, ultimately, more similar to classical "suites" than to pop songs. His stately odes displayed an increasing affectation, often sounding like pretentious sermons, but born out of a painful convergence of spiritual self-flagellation, tortured confession, shamanic trance, James Joyce's stream of consciousness, John Donne's metaphysical poetry and and William Blake's visionary symbolism.

erhaps too educated or too introverted to belong to the school of rock music, Van Morrison was one of the most significant artists of the 1970s.

Taking the cue from the most abstract songs of Bob Dylan and Tim Buckley, from psychedelic and progressive rock, from the Celtic bards and the soul singer, Van Morrison invented a new kind of singer-songwriter, one who uses the basic components of folk, country, jazz, and rhythm and blues to compose songs that are deeply personal and even philosophical. His greatest works are in fact complex, cleansing compositions that resemble “suites” more than classic pop songs.

Studio sessions' infos
Unissued Songs 1968 - 1971
Nobody Really Knows (6:04) acoustic guitar & acoustic bass ; Bit By Bit (4:58) acoustic guitar & acoustic bass ; Lean On me aka Hey Where Are You (6:23) acoustic guitar, acoustic bass & flute ; I Need Your Kind Of Loving (3:29) acoustic guitar, acoustic bass & flute; Wasn't That A Time aka Rock And Roll Band (5:02) acoustic guitar; Lorna (2:35) acoustic guitar; Funny Face (2:22) acoustic guitar

from studio sessions for Moondance 1969 :
And It Stoned Me (4:22) acoustic guitar & harmony vocals; Caravan (4:35) acoustic guitar & electric bass; Come Running (1:45) acoustic guitar; These Dreams Of You (2:24) acoustic guitar & tambourine; Brand New Day (5:56) acoustic guitar, electric bass & drums

from studio sessions for His Band And The Street Choir 1970
Domino (3:56) acoustic guitar, percussion & harmony vocals; If I Ever Needed Someone (3:42) acoustic guitar

from studio sessions for Astral Weeks 1968 :
The Way Young Lovers Do (3:33) acoustic guitar

from studio sessions for Tupelo Honey 1971
Wild Night (5:18) acoustic guitar & acoustic bass; When That Evening Sun Goes Down (2:14) acoustic guitar