Van Morrison : Veedon Fleece

Veedon Fleece 

is the

 eighth studio album

 by Northern Irish

 singer-songwriter

 Van Morrison

 released in October 1974  

Morrison recorded the album 

shortly after his 

divorce from wife 

Janet (Planet) Rigsbee. 

With his broken marriage

 in the past, 

Morrison visited Ireland

 on holiday for new inspiration, 

arriving on October 20 1973 

with his fiancee at the time, 
Carol Guida 

While there he wrote 

in fewer than three weeks

the songs included
 on the album

except

 "Bulbs",

 "Country Fair"

 and

 "Come Here My Love"

It has been compared to 

Astral Weeks with the same

 "stream of consciousness"

 lyrics but musically
 it is more Celtic, 

acoustic
 and heavily influenced by

 Morrison's Irish trip.

 It has been called a 

genuinely underground album 

That he seemed to

 disown quickly after recording 

and has been referred

 to as Morrison's

 "forgotten masterpiece"

The album cover 
photograph shows

 Morrison sitting in the grass 

between two Irish Wolfhounds.

 The photographer, 

Tom Collins,

 took the original photograph

 that situated 
Morrison and the dogs

 adjacent to
 the Sutton House Hotel, 

a converted mansion 

overlooking Dublin Bay, 

where Morrison first stayed 

upon arriving in Ireland 

for his vacation

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