Release Date: 1/01/1967
Recording Date: 1/1967
Tracks: 8
Length: 00:35:32 Hrs
Label: Bang
Type: CD,LP
- Genre/Styles
- Singer/Songwriter, Folk-Rock, Pop/Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul, Album Rock, AM Pop
Album Tracks (8)
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What the Critics Say
Although Van Morrison's first solo album is remembered for containing the immortal pop hit "Brown Eyed Girl," Blowin' Your Mind! is actually a dry run for his masterpiece, Astral Weeks. Songs like "Who Drove the Red Sports Car" look to that song cycle, even as "Midnight Special" nods to Morrison's R&B past. But it's the agonizing "T.B. Sheets" -- all nine-plus minutes of it -- that dominates this record and belies its trendy title and pop association. "T.B. Sheets" takes the blues and reinvents it as noble tragedy and humiliating mortality. It's where Van Morrison emerges as an artist. [Blowin' Your Mind! was superseded in 1991 by Bang Masters, which contains all of its tracks except "He Ain't Give You None," presented in an alternate take, plus Morrison's other recordings for Bang.] ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
