![]() ![]() Join the mailing list for a weekly roundup of Jazz News. Not yet a subscriber of our Wednesday Breakfast Headlines? The album’s title comes from the prolific American songwriter Harlan Howard’s quote that “Country Music is three chords and the truth”, and on the title track’s chorus Morrison amends that to “Three chords and the truth, a shot of rhythm and blues”, which is a more accurate description of this 70-minute album. ![]() They were partly recorded, mixed and mastered by longtime Van collaborator Jim Stern, truly the Rudy van Gelder of the West Coast and a key part of the Fantasy Records story. The 14 songs, all by Morrison (one a co-write with lyricist Don Black) were cut at studios in Wales, Northern Ireland and the US with a different rhythm section for each side of the Atlantic. Here’s Van Morrison at 74, a hard working man with a busy tour schedule releasing his sixth album in four years. Van Morrison – Three Chords And The Truth ![]()
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