Finished up the Christmas playlist for our dinner Christmas night---went out to do some errands in the car and decided to catch up on some music I'd missed when new. There's very little of Van Morrison's catalog that I don't like (speaks to my Irish soul, I guess), and 1999's BACK ON TOP is a new (to me) favorite. Seems like Van re-introduced some blues into what had, for the previous 20 years, been a very smooth sound: