{"id":792731,"date":"2019-02-05T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=788317"},"modified":"2019-02-05T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T14:00:11","slug":"van-morrison-morrison-details-expanded-healing-game-reissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/van-morrison-morrison-details-expanded-healing-game-reissue\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Morrison Morrison Details Expanded \u2018Healing Game\u2019 Reissue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Van Morrison<\/a> will release a deluxe edition of The Healing Game<\/em>, his acclaimed 1997 LP, generously expanded with outtakes, rare tracks and a complete live concert recording. Out March 22nd via Legacy and Morrison\u2019s Exile Productions, Ltd., The Healing Game (Deluxe Edition)<\/em> will be available in three-CD and digital formats, with a single-LP reissue of the original album coming out simultaneously.<\/p>\n

As a preview of the set\u2019s deluxe version, you can now hear one of the bonus tracks: a live version of the album\u2019s title song, recorded at the Montreaux Jazz Festival in July 1997.<\/p>\n

As on the record, the song \u2014 an ode to the doo-wop era \u2014 starts off as a mellow ballad and builds to a bold, brassy sing-along climax. The performance features backing vocals from organist Georgie Fame, who also played on the studio version. Near the end, you can hear another back-up singer, Brian Kennedy, who shadows Morrison on much of the album, introducing members of the band, which includes core Morrison collaborators like saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe song is about when people used to sing on the streets: It came from America, where they had all the doo-wop groups,\u201d Morrison told Q<\/em> magazine of \u201cThe Healing Game.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s the general idea of the song: you\u2019ve never really moved from this position. You took a lot of detours but you\u2019re still back on the corner.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the original album, which contains 10 Morrison originals and has not been remastered for the new edition, The Healing Game (Deluxe Edition)<\/em>\u00a0features more than 30 extras. All recorded between 1995 and 1997, and many of them previously unissued, these include alternate versions of songs that appeared on the final album (among them are several different takes on the title track), a live version of the 1972 Morrison classic \u201cSt. Dominic\u2019s Preview,\u201d duets with John Lee Hooker and Carl Perkins, and Morrison\u2019s full 1997 Montreaux Jazz Festival set, at which he performed songs from the then-new Healing Game<\/em> along with older material, and covers of songs by Ray Charles and Sly Stone.<\/p>\n

Released in March 1997, The Healing Game<\/em> followed two Morrison releases heavily focused on covers: 1995\u2019s How Long Has This Been Going On<\/em>, where the singer teamed with vocalist-organist Georgie Fame, and 1996\u2019s Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison<\/em>, which also featured Fame, as well as Allison and singer-pianist Ben Sidran. Some viewed The Healing Game<\/em> as a return to form.<\/p>\n

\u201cThough The Healing Game<\/em> won\u2019t erase the years of dashed expectations, it should salve the wounds of frustrated fans,\u201d Mark Coleman wrote in his Rolling Stone<\/em> review<\/a>. \u201cMorrison hasn\u2019t retreated from his spiritual quest or retracted his loathing of Information Age phonies. Maybe he has just remembered something: Graspable tunes and reasonable, cogent lyrics are a more efficient means of communicating than endless vamps and lofty sermonizing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greil Marcus used a line from \u201cRough God Goes Riding,\u201d\u00a0The Healing Game\u2019<\/em>s opening track, as the title of his 2010 book of essays<\/a> on Morrison\u2019s work. In the book, after panning a lengthy string of Morrison\u2019s albums, stretching from 1980\u2019s Common One<\/em> through Tell Me Something<\/em>, Marcus writes of The Healing Game<\/em>: \u201cMorrison\u2019s records of the previous seventeen years fade into irrelevance against what he has to offer here. They don\u2019t even make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part of an ongoing series of Morrison reissues through Legacy, The Healing Game (Deluxe)<\/em> follows 2015\u2019s career-spanning\u00a0Essential Van Morrison<\/em> compilation and a box set devoted to the complete works of Morrison\u2019s early band Them; a 2016 collection<\/a> of previously unreleased live material from the same string of 1973 shows that produced legendary live LP ..It\u2019s Too Late to Stop Now\u2026<\/em>; and 2017\u2019s The Authorized Bang Collection<\/em>, focusing on Morrison\u2019s legendary 1967 studio recordings. This set of reissues is separate from the new Warner Bros. editions<\/a> of Morrison\u2019s Astral Weeks<\/em> and His Band and Street Choir<\/em> that came out in 2015.<\/p>\n

The Healing Game (Deluxe)<\/em> comes on the heels of a busy period for Morrison, who released two new studio albums per year in 2017 and 2018. The singer is currently on tour, performing this week at both L.A.\u2019s Wiltern and Las Vegas\u2019 Colosseum at Caesar\u2019s Palace. Later in the spring, he\u2019ll appear in London, Chicago and at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.<\/p>\n

Van Morrison, The Healing Game (Deluxe Edition)<\/em> track list<\/strong><\/p>\n

Disc 1 \u2013 (The Original Album\u2026Plus)<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. \u201cRough God Goes Riding\u201d
2. \u201cFire in the Belly\u201d
3. \u201cThis Weight\u201d
4. \u201cWaiting Game\u201d
5. \u201cPiper at the Gates of Dawn\u201d
6. \u201cBurning Ground\u201d
7. \u201cIt Once Was My Life\u201d
8. \u201cSometimes We Cry\u201d
9. \u201cIf You Love Me\u201d
10. \u201cThe Healing Game\u201d<\/p>\n

Bonus tracks<\/strong><\/p>\n

11. \u201cLook What the Good People Done\u201d
12. \u201cAt the End of the Day\u201d
13. \u201cThe Healing Game (single version)\u201d
14. \u201cFull Force Gale \u201996 (single version)\u201d
15. \u201cSt. Dominic\u2019s Preview\u201d<\/p>\n

Disc 2 \u2013 Sessions & Collaborations<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. \u201cThe Healing Game (alternate version)\u201d (previously unissued)
2. \u201cFire in the Belly (alternate version)\u201d (previously unissued)
3. \u201cDidn\u2019t He Ramble\u201d (previously unissued)
4. \u201cThe Healing Game (jazz version)\u201d (previously unissued)
5. \u201cSometimes We Cry (full length version)\u201d (previously unissued)
6. \u201cMule Skinner Blues\u201d
7. \u201cA Kiss to Build a Dream On (previously unissued)\u201d
8. \u201cDon\u2019t Look Back \u2013 John Lee Hooker\u201d
9. \u201cThe Healing Game \u2013 John Lee Hooker\u201d
10. \u201cBoppin\u2019 the Blues \u2013 Carl Perkins & Van Morrison\u201d (previously unissued)
11. \u201cMatchbox \u2013 Carl Perkins & Van Morrison\u201d (previously unissued)
12. \u201cSittin\u2019 on Top of the World \u2013 Carl Perkins & Van Morrison\u201d (arranged by Van Morrison)
13. \u201cMy Angel \u2013 Carl Perkins & Van Morrison\u201d (previously unissued)
14. \u201cAll By Myself \u2013 Carl Perkins & Van Morrison\u201d (previously unissued)
15. \u201cMule Skinner Blues \u2013 Lonnie Donegan & Van Morrison\u201d<\/p>\n

Disc 3 \u2013 Live at Montreux 17 July 1997 (all tracks previously unreleased)<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. \u201cRough God Goes Riding\u201d
2. \u201cForeign Window\u201d
3. \u201cTore Down A La Rimbaud\u201d
4. \u201cVanlose Stairway\/Trans-Euro Train\u201d
5. \u201cFool For You\u201d
6. \u201cSometimes We Cry\u201d
7. \u201cIt Once Was My Life\u201d
8. \u201cI\u2019m Not Feeling It Anymore\u201d
9. \u201cThis Weight\u201d
10. \u201cWho Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)\u201d
11. \u201cFire in the Belly\u201d
12. \u201cTupelo Honey\/Why Must I Always Explain\u201d
13. \u201cThe Healing Game\u201d
14. \u201cSee Me Through\/Soldier of Fortune\/Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)\/Burning Ground\u201d<\/p>\n

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Van Morrison will release a deluxe edition of The Healing Game, his acclaimed 1997 LP, generously expanded with outtakes, rare tracks and a complete live concert recording. Out March 22nd via Legacy and Morrison\u2019s Exile Productions, Ltd., The Healing Game (Deluxe Edition) will be available in three-CD and digital formats, with a single-LP reissue of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 11:12:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}