This time around, I liked him a little more-and then a lot more-as I started listening to his catalogue in more depth. Fast forward to freshman year of college, and Van Morrison found his way on to my freshman finals playlist in the form of the song “Caravan,” off 1970’s Moondance.
Little Me found his bluesy caterwaul out of place alongside Kevin Conneff’s chipper Irish tenor. In fact, I distinctly remember telling my mom that Morrison ruined all of the songs on that album, which I loved otherwise. I first became familiar with Van Morrison when I heard him feature on an album my parents used to play when I was a kid-1988’s Irish Heartbeat, a collaboration with Irish folk group the Chieftains. Van Morrison- Astral Weeks (1968, Warner Bros)
