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Equal parts blue-eyed soul shouter and wild-eyed poet-sorcerer, Van Morrison is among popular music's true innovators, a restless seeker whose incantatory vocals and alchemical fusion of R&B, jazz, blues, and Celtic folk produced perhaps the most spiritually transcendent body of work in the rock & roll canon. While a notoriously difficult and eccentric figure whose steadfast rejection of commercial trends and industry fashions kept him absent from the pop charts for decades at a stretch, Morrison neverthele... Read More

Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters, Ray Charles, Hank Williams, John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williamson

Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Jeff Buckley, Starsailor, The Doors, Grant Lee Buffalo, David & David, Counting Crows, Sophie Zelmani, Cuby + Blizzards and Robbie Robertson