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George Ivan Morrison aka The Belfast Cowboy aka Van The Man turns 63 today.

Van - you're a legend, a master, a poet, an amazing songwriter, and one of my all time favorites. Your 40+ year career has taken me on a musical journey like no other artist. You, seemingly without effort, transcend genre and consistently produce music that is soulful, soothing and inspirational. The world is indeed a much better place because of your contributions, and for that I thank you.

Happy Birthday



Outstanding photo via Art Siegel

My friend Nat over at Mini-Obs has a recurring theme for her Friday posts called, coincidentally enough, Top 5 On Friday. Each week a new theme is chosen and a list compiled. This last week her theme was Top 5 Songs You Wish You Wrote which of course got me thinking about what I would include on such a list.

My wife put hers together in about 5 minutes, mine has taken me quite a bit longer. Lists like this are really difficult for me, I think of all of the things I am excluding when I do them. Recently though, I've decided to just go with what comes to mind quickly and see if a theme develops. It did so in this case.

So here are the 5 songs I have chosen. I don't know that these are my 5 favorite songs, or the 5 greatest songs, but these are the ones that I wish I had written (at least at the time of this writing) Continue reading "Top Five Songs I Wish I Had ... »