VAN MORRISON - INTO THE MYSTIC - Scotsman Reaction - First Time Listening

A Van Morrison song that's not Brown Eyed Girl. Lets hear it.
Original Track • Van Morrison Into The ...
Sir George Ivan Morrison OBE (born 31 August 1945) is a singer-songwriter and musician from Northern Ireland whose recording career spans seven decades.
Morrison began performing as a teenager in the late 1950s, playing a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands, covering the popular hits of that time. Known as "Van the Man" to his fans, Morrison rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Belfast R&B band Them, with whom he wrote and recorded "Gloria", which became a garage band staple. His solo career started under the pop-hit oriented guidance of Bert Berns with the release of the hit single "Brown Eyed Girl" in 1967. After Berns's death, Warner Bros. Records bought Morrison's contract and allowed him three sessions to record Astral Weeks (1968). While initially a poor seller, the album has come to be regarded as a classic. Moondance (1970) established Morrison as a major artist, and he built on his reputation throughout the 1970s with a series of acclaimed albums and live performances.
Much of Morrison's music is structured around the conventions of soul music and early rhythm and blues. An equal part of his catalogue consists of lengthy, spiritually inspired musical journeys that show the influence of Celtic tradition, jazz and stream of consciousness narrative, such as the album Astral Weeks. The two strains together are sometimes referred to as "Celtic soul", and his music has been described as attaining "a kind of violent transcendence".
The October 1966 to February 1970 lineup of Jefferson Airplane, consisting of Marty Balin (vocals), Paul Kantner (guitar, vocals), Grace Slick (vocals), Jorma Kaukonen (lead guitar, vocals), Jack Casady (bass), and Spencer Dryden (drums), was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Balin left the band in 1971. After 1972, Jefferson Airplane effectively split into two groups. Kaukonen and Casady moved on full-time to their own band, Hot Tuna. Slick, Kantner, and the remaining members of Jefferson Airplane recruited new members and regrouped as Jefferson Starship in 1974, with Balin eventually joining them. Jefferson Airplane received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016.
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[@mkg59]

Twenty minutes ago I was lucky enough to run across your touching reaction to "Vincent" by Don McLean. I was so intrigued I wanted to see more. I came to your page and the first reaction I see is to one of my favorite songs, "Into The Mystic." Your honesty about his lack of accent of his singing voice was something I rarely hear from reactors...I appreciate it and convinced me to subscribe.

[@hondarue4758]

Funny, I did the same thing. Heard Vincent and saw Van. New subscriber too.

[@ls1959]

Into the Mystic is in my top 10 of all time. 462 on Rolling Stone's all-time list? Way way way too low.

[@RMcGivern]

Why not just admire the pure talent rather than critique his accent - sad really