His Band And The Street Choir (Expanded & Remastered Edition)
Van Morrison
- Domino
- Crazy Face
- Give Me A Kiss
- I’ve Been Working
- Call Me Up In Dreamland
- I’ll Be Your Lover, Too
- Blue Money
- Virgo Clowns
- Gypsy Queen
- Sweet Jannie
- If I Ever Needed Someone
- Street Choir
- Call Me Up In Dreamland (Take 10)
- Give Me A Kiss (Take 3)
- Gypsy Queen (Take 3)
- I’ve Been Working (Alternate Version)
- I’ll Be Your Lover, Too (Alternate Version)
Van Morrison’s early years at Warner Bros. Records were revisited in grand form in 2013 with the epic deluxe edition of Moondance packed with unreleased studio outtakes. Now the bookends to that classic album, Morrison’s legendary 1968 label debut ASTRAL WEEKS and 1970’s HIS BAND AND THE STREET CHOIR, get honored with expanded and remastered versions.
In addition to remastered audio, each album also features previously unreleased versions of several album tracks. These single-disc expanded and remastered versions will be released on October 30.
Following Moondance’s breakthrough success, His Band And The Street Choir arrived in November 1970. While Astral Weeks and Moondance contemplate the cosmos and love’s rich conundrums, Street Choir resonates with a purposefully loose ebullience on songs like the Top Ten hit “Domino,” “Blue Money,” and “Call Me Up In Dreamland.”
This remastered version of the album is expanded with five unreleased bonus tracks, including an early, raw take of “Give Me Kiss” without piano, horns or backing vocals. Morrison’s impressive falsetto gets a workout on Take 3 of “Gypsy Queen,” while the band turns up the funk on the greasy alternate version of “I’ve Been Working” that’s featured here.
