Hard Nose the Highway

by Van Morrison

Hard Nose the Highway cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: July 1973
  • Label: Warner Bros.
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 43:14
  • Community rating: 3.75/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded shortly after a period of intense touring, this deeply pastoral collection finds the Northern Irish songwriter leaning into lush, jazz-inflected arrangements with the Caledonia Soul Orchestra. Notably featuring an expansive cover of Joe Raposo's 'Bein' Green', the sessions reveal an introspective, autumnal shift away from his earlier, heavily R&B-driven material.

Genres

Descriptors: folk, male-vocals, melodic, crooning, piano, soulful, vocal, orchestral, ballad

Tracklist

  1. Snow In San Anselmo (4:36)
  2. Warm Love (3:23)
  3. Hard Nose the Highway (5:15)
  4. Wild Children (4:21)
  5. The Great Deception (4:53)
  6. Bein' Green (4:22)
  7. Autumn Song (10:38)
  8. Purple Heather (5:43)

Credits

  • Robert Springett - artwork [album cover art], cover [album cover art]
  • Jackie DeShannon - backing vocals [background vocals]
  • Oakland Symphony Chamber Chorus - backing vocals [background vocals]
  • David Hayes - bass
  • Marty David - bass
  • Gary Mallaber - drums, vibraphone [vibes]
  • Rick Shlosser - drums
  • John Platania - guitar

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