Clocking in at a healthy nine minutes and thirty five seconds, Van Morrison’s “T.B. Sheets,” culled from his first album Blowin’ Your Mind!, remains one of his most spirited exercises in blue-eyed soul. Fevered, you can almost feel the man’s cold sweat just prior to his transformation into a household name.
“The cool room Lord, is a fool’s room. The cool room Lord, is a fool’s room. And I can almost smell your T.B. sheets. I can almost smell your T.B. sheets. I gotta go.”
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MP3: Van Morrison :: T.B. Sheets
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Amazon: Van Morrison – Blowin’ Your Mind!
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I guess I didn’t know it til now, but this has always been my favorite Van song. On your sick bed.
1 | A Clock November 13th, 2007 at 12:29 amYour Amazon link is to “Blowin’ Your Mind!”, but I would recommend the “Bang Masters” CD instead – it contains all the BYM album plus every other worthwhile Van track from this period. It’s interesting to hear the early versions of a couple of tracks that were later refined on “Astral Weeks”.
2 | Private Beach November 13th, 2007 at 1:27 amThis is Van in NYC, still defiantly unobliging and stricken with conflicting emotions. Dissecting the human response from cold observation which would crystallize in “Astral Weeks” as something beyond Dylan and the sweating lust and wide-eyed abandon of his earlier band, Them.
3 | ib November 13th, 2007 at 11:56 amThanks for this one. I love Van and don’t have this version of TB Sheets. Astral Weeks – best album ever (in Simpsons’ Comic Book Man voice).
4 | Chris in Oxford November 13th, 2007 at 12:44 pmShe’s a banging track, I’ve already got it stuck on a summer playlist (southern hemisfear down here!) not far from Ghostface’s Greedy Bitches track which samples it. Rockin’ in the sun.
I have a record with this and Who Drove the Red Sports Car which was I played on high repeat for ages a couple of years ago. Can’t remember what the album was but the illustration on the sleeve sure looked like a NY scene.
5 | MIke Shadow November 14th, 2007 at 6:13 pmL’influence des pierres précieuses et l’astrologie….
Il est bien connu qu’à l’époque du premier christianisme plusieurs ?uvres d’auteurs anciens sur l’influence des pierres sur la santé et le destin de l’homme ont disparu (l’église croyait que c’étaient les résultats de la superstition païe…
6 | Tout Voyance April 26th, 2008 at 4:47 amPLEASE PLEASE Please POST Van Morrison’s TB Sheets again, with the mp3 download, you would just make my summer!
7 | anita July 31st, 2008 at 2:43 pm