[2019-03-22] Van Morrison "The Healing Game (Deluxe Edition)" 3CD set (Legacy)

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:26 pm

Description
This new deluxe edition of 'The Healing Game' includes the original album plus two additional discs of rare and unreleased material featuring B-sides, session outtakes and duets with John Lee Hooker, Carl Perkins and B.B. King. Also included is the first official release of a performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in the summer of 1997. Here, Morrison is in full control, eschewing his greatest hits for songs from 'The Healing Game,' deep cuts from his extensive back catalogue and covers of Ray Charles, Tony Bennett and Sly & The Family Stone.

Tracklist
[CD1: The Original Album Plus...]
1. Rough God Goes Riding
2. Fire In the Belly
3. This Weight
4. Waiting Game
5. Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
6. Burning Ground
7. It Was Once My Life
8. Sometimes We Cry
9. If You Love Me
10. The Healing Game
Bonus Tracks:
11. Look What The Good People Done (First issued on the CD Single #VANCD 13, 1997)
12. At The End Of The Day (First issued on the CD Single #HEAL 3, 1997)
13. The Healing Game (Single Version) (First issued on the CD Single #HEAL 3, 1997)
14. Full Force Gale ’96 (First issued on the CD Single #VANCD 13, 1997)
15. St. Dominic’s Preview (First issued on Sult – Spirit Of The Music, 1996)

[CD2: Sessions & Collaborations]
1. The Healing Game (Alternate Version) (Previously Unissued)
2. Fire In The Belly (Alternate Version) (Previously Unissued)
3. Didn’t He Ramble (Previously Unissued)
4. The Healing Game (Jazz Version) (Previously Unissued)
5. Sometimes We Cry (Full Length Version) (Previously Unissued)
6. Mule Skinner Blues (First issued on The Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute, 1997)
7. A Kiss To Build A Dream On (Previously Unissued)
8. Don’t Look Back – John Lee Hooker (First Issued on Don’t Look Back, 1997)
9. The Healing Game – John Lee Hooker (First Issued on Don’t Look Back, 1997)
10. Boppin’ The Blues – Carl Perkins & Van Morrison (Previously Unissued)
11. Matchbox – Carl Perkins & Van Morrison (Previously Unissued)
12. Sittin’ On Top Of The World – Carl Perkins & Van Morrison (First Issued on Good Rockin’ Tonight – The Legacy Of Sun Records, 2001)
13. My Angel – Carl Perkins & Van Morrison (Previously Unissued)
14. All By Myself – Carl Perkins & Van Morrison (Previously Unissued)
15. Mule Skinner Blues – Lonnie Donegan & Van Morrison (First issued on Muleskinner Blues, 1999)

[CD3: Live At Montreux 19 July, 1997]
1. Rough God Goes Riding
2. Foreign Window
3. Tore Down A La Rimbaud
4. Vanlose Stairway/Trans-Euro Train
5. Fool For You
6. Sometimes We Cry
7. It Was Once My Life
8. I’m Not Feeling It Anymore
9. This Weight
10. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
11. Fire In The Belly
12. Tupelo Honey/Why Must I Explain
13. The Healing Game
14. See Me Through/Soldier Of Fortune/Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)/Burning Ground

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071VJWXFT/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:29 pm

Sony's initial solicitation shows a tracklist which appears to match the cancelled 3CD set from a couple of years ago (that was supposed to be released for the actual 20th anniversary of this album). Let's hope it's finally coming out for real this time.

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5104

Thank you Linda.

stanner · **Joined:** 26 Aug 2014 **Posts:** 119

Saint Dominic's Preview is going for $80 on Amazon right now. Just saying.

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Feb 01, 2019 5:08 pm

Since we're a couple years past the 20th anniversary of The Healing Game, new artwork has been designed for this release which refers to it simple as a "Deluxe Edition". Check out the updated image in the first post, along with the official description from Sony Legacy.

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:56 pm

Another delay, but only a small one -- the release date has been pushed back by three weeks, to March 22nd.

eelkiller · **Joined:** 10 Dec 2006 **Posts:** 1681

stanner wrote:

Saint Dominic's Preview is going for $80 on Amazon right now. Just saying.

Was there a deluxe edition? I missed it. :shock:

Jason Michael · 30 May 2012

eelkiller wrote:

stanner wrote:

Saint Dominic's Preview is going for $80 on Amazon right now. Just saying.

Was there a deluxe edition? I missed it. :shock:

No, there was not. Don't panic!

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

'the healing game' was, for all intents and purposes, the first album in a real long line of van morrison albums that just seemed repeat themselves over and over again.

the chord structure, the vocal patterns, the voice inflections, the production and the instrumentation just doesn't change for the next 13 albums (save for the awful ''skiffle sessions').

i am a big morrison fan, and yes i've bought them all, but for quite some time now, morrison seems to be just 'mailing it in".

Jim Wilkin · **Joined:** 20 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 456

Renny wrote:

'the healing game' was, for all intents and purposes, the first album in a real long line of van morrison albums that just seemed repeat themselves over and over again.

the chord structure, the vocal patterns, the voice inflections, the production and the instrumentation just doesn't change for the next 13 albums (save for the awful ''skiffle sessions').

i am a big morrison fan, and yes i've bought them all, but for quite some time now, morrison seems to be just 'mailing it in"