When That Rough God Goes Riding Listening to Van Morrison

by Marcus, Greil

• ISBN13: 9781586489526
• ISBN10: 1586489526
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-05
• Publisher: PublicAffairs

Summary

This book is a quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through a close look at the most extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career, beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force to this day: sometimes entire songs, sometimes single words or even the guttural spaces between words that become musical events in themselves.

Author Biography

Greil Marcus is the author of Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus, Writings 1968-2010 (PublicAffairs, 2010), The Shape of Things to Come, Like a Rolling Stone (PublicAffairs, 2006), The Old Weird America, and other books; a twentieth-century anniversary edition of his book Lipstick Traces was published in 2009. With Werner Sollors he is the editor of A New Literary History of America, published in 2009 by Harvard University Press. Since 2000 he has taught at Princeton, Berkeley, Minnesota, and the New School in New York; his column Real Life Rock Top 10 appears regularly in The Believer. He lives in Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Northern Muse. Greek Theatre, Berkeley. 3 May 2009	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
A Grimy Cinderella in a Purple Stage Suit
Mystic Eyes. 1965	p. 15
Tupelo Honey. 1971	p. 18
Baby Please Don't Go. 1965	p. 23
John Brown's Body. 1975	p. 27
Caravan. The Last Waltz. 1976	p. 29
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue. 1966	p. 36
I'm Going to My Grave With This Record
Astral Weeks. 1968	p. 43
Almost Independence Day. 1972. Listen to the Lion. 1972. Caledonia Soul Music. 1970	p. 63
Moonshine Whiskey. 1971	p. 73
Just Like a Woman. 1971	p. 74
The Last Laugh, on Mark Knopfler, Sailing to Philadelphia. 2000	p. 80
A Belief in the Blues as a Kind of Curse One Puts on Oneself
Common One. 1980 …Tell Me Something. 1996	p. 85
Linden Arden Stole the Highlights. 1974	p. 96
Breakfast on Pluto. 2005	p. 100
The Healing Game. 1997	p. 110
There Was No False Face the Song Could Not Erase
Into the Music. 1979	p. 125
Friday's Child. 1971	p. 134
Madame George. 1968	p. 140
Saint Dominic's Preview. 1996	p. 157
Sweet Thing. 1968	p. 163
Take Me Back. 1991. Jennifer Jason Leigh, 1995	p. 166
Mystic Eyes. Greek Theatre, Berkeley. 2009	p. 175
Behind the Ritual. 2008	p. 178
Acknowledgments	p. 185
Index	p. 187
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