2 languages
Hard Nose the Highway
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work
Hard Nose the Highway came out in 1973. The recording ran from August to November 1972, partly in a studio that Van Morrison had had built next to his house in Fairfax, California. According to him it was the first album that he produced entirely himself. Almost thirty songs came out of it, enough for a double album, but Warner Bros. managed to convince him of a single record. Some of the rest did not appear until 1998.
For the first time since his debut, the album also contains songs by others: Bein' Green, best known from Kermit the Frog, and the traditional Purple Heather. Snow in San Anselmo opens with the Oakland Symphony Chamber Chorus, and Warm Love became a successful single. The singer said that one side sounds hard and the other soft. The first reviews were full of praise, but later critics were less positive. The biographer Erik Hage thought the criticism unnecessary, because the album followed an exceptional run of records.
Listening
Track list
- 1Snow In San Anselmo4:37Apple Music ↗
- 2Warm Love3:24Apple Music ↗
- 3Hard Nose the Highway5:15Apple Music ↗
- 4Wild Children4:21Apple Music ↗
- 5The Great Deception4:53Apple Music ↗
- 6Bein' Green4:22Apple Music ↗
- 7Autumn Song10:39Apple Music ↗
- 8Purple Heather5:44Apple Music ↗
30-second previews via Apple Music. Listen to the whole album on Apple Music ↗