Accentuate The Positive＜限定盤/Blue Vinyl＞

スキッフル再訪を果たしたヴァン・モリソンが次に向かったのは、ロックンロール!!!

自身が幼少時代、20世紀初頭のブルースやロックンロールを体験し、インスパイアされたアルバムを制作
名曲の数々を再考し、再創造し、素晴らしいアレンジと彼の比類なき歌声とともに収録している

Arriving swiftly on the heels of Moving on Skiffle, Accentuate the Positive is certainly a kissing cousin to its 2023 companion: its another spirited revival of a style that a young Van Morrison held dear. Despite being titled after the Johnny Mercer & Harold Arlen standard, Accentuate the Positive isnt an ode to the Great American Songbook. Its nominally a celebration of the early days of rock & roll, an era that did see various styles, attitudes, and demographics mingle, so Morrisons decision to punctuate classics by Chuck Berry, the Everly Brothers, Little Richard, and Chuck Willis with pop tunes, country hits, and jump blues isnt far afield: all this music was part of the early explosion of rock & roll. Besides, Van Morrison has never been a rockabilly cat, hes a blues shouter and he plays precisely to those strengths here, leading his band through lively and loving readings of rock & roll oldies, never apologizing for the unabashed nostalgia of the entire enterprise. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine