Van Morrison-Too Long in Exile (1993)

Van Morrison's long and fruitful career has been characterized by his folk, blues and rhythm and blues influences, and not for that reason his style has been a hybrid compendium of these genres but a personal and non-transferable style.
"The Lion from Belfast" was already the leader of his tip band Them in the sixties, which he would end up dissolving in 1966 mainly due to his disappointment with the music business.
Such was the feeling of mistrust Morrison had towards the record industry, that when he began releasing his solo albums, he took full control of his recordings and decided not to grant interviews or press conferences thereafter.
This would ultimately mark his career to the point of becoming a kind of sullen genius blessed by the press and adored by fans over the decades.
Already with their pyramid albums, starting with their debut "Blowin 'Your Mind!", They showed an unequal stylistic connection, going from intimate folk to masterpieces like "Astral Weeks" with that conglomerate of soul, gospel and blues, without their albums being actually cataloged in any genre.
In 1993 he published his twenty-second album "Too Long in Exile" which becomes one of his most commercially successful works, an album where jazz, blues and R&B are the common denominator.
Subjects like the overwhelming R&B "Blues Lonely Avenue", that extraordinary feeling of blues with "Big Time Operators", the jazz music "Close Enough for Jazz", the exquisite "I´ll Take Care of You" or the version of the mythic " Glory "where he is accompanied by the blues man John Lee Hooker, they make up an extraordinary and superb album, worthy of the great Northern Irish musician.