Universal Music Australia Van Morrison Moving On Skiffle CD

Moving On Skiffle finds Van Morrison taking a homemade style that exploded across Britain in the mid-1950s and infusing it with a level of sophistication and soulfulness that it didn t always possess the first time around.

The 23-track album goes to the heart of the music Van Morrison has inhabited ever since he was six years old, hanging out in the smoky confines of Belfast s Atlantic Records. It also contains songs that underline, in their messages on the importance of freedom and living on your own terms, his lifetime philosophy.

Van Morrison says, I was still in school when I performed with a skiffle band a couple of guitars, washboard, tea-chest bass. I was already familiar with Lead Belly s recordings so when I heard Lonnie Donegan s version of Rock Island Line I intuitively understood what he was creating, I knew that it was what I wanted to do. It was like an explosion. This record retranslates songs from that era.