After the brilliant one-two punch of
Astral Weeks and
Moondance,
His Band and the Street Choir brings
Van Morrison back down to earth, both literally and figuratively. While neither as innovative nor as edgy as its predecessors,
His Band and the Street Choir also lacks their overt mysticism; at heart, the album is simply
Morrison's valentine to the R&B that inspired him, resulting in the muscular and joyous tribute "Domino" as well as the bouncy "Blue Money" and "Call Me Up in Dreamland."
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Jason Ankeny, Rovi