VAN MORRISON is a pompous windbag…..
…..but for this November 1998 set the old guys kept him in line.
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Recalling the early days of sloshed all-nighters, it could'a been called 'Drinking With Chris and Lonnie' as the two of 'em are still on top of their game much like they were 40 years earlier. For the uninitiated, CB was one of the original UK Trad Jazzers (the REAL rave scene!) and singlehandedly brought UK music into modern times when he and OTTILIE PATTERSON (Mrs. Chris Barber) cut two sides in 1961 with ALEXIS KORNER. LD formed his first jazzband while conscripted, continued on after that eventually ending up in CB's band and became England's first superstar when CB began including an acoustic set during each show based on American folk sounds; the Skiffle craze resulted with LD at the helm. Everyone's having a good time, this isn't about virtuosity - it's relaxed rocking bluesy stuff and the Brits unique polished take on over here primitive. VM brings out DR. JOHN for a few numbers, BIG JIM SULLIVAN adds guitar flash, LD tosses good one-liners to the appreciative crowd 'twixt numbers and CB, a man responsible for so much in the history of UK music, exudes charisma in his wonderfully unassuming way.
Listen: "Don't You Rock Me Daddy O"