These songs weren't country, nor actual folk music, but still very rock 'n' roll in their approach-albeit a severely mutated and on the loose version of rock 'n' roll, which seemed to almost come from an alternate universe where Elvis, the Beatles, and electric guitars didn't exist. Lots of words backed by mostly acoustic instruments. Both of these albums were rather sparse in instrumentation, yet full of meaning and potence. A trifle flat-sounding, not much in the way of studio trickery in either of these, which is interesting since they both came from an era where many bands were going nuts with multi-tracking and psychedelic ambience. Both of these albums had a similar sound to them. They were both completed within a year of each other-one by one of America's most important songwriters, the other by Ireland's latest in a long line of poet-mystics. I would clean house while listening to two albums: Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding and Van Morrison's Astral Weeks. This went on for a number of years, eventually shifting to Monday when that became my one regular day off.įor some reason, in my mind, these two albums complemented one another. When I was quite a bit younger and living in my first apartment I had a Sunday morning ritual.
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